Rich Johnston Archives

Marjorie Merriweather Post was the billionaire owner of General Foods, who willed her estate, Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, to the federal government

In Batman #9, Batman took Catwoman out of Arkham Asylum.Though obviously we were meant to think it was The Joker. But we did learn she was being tried for

This is the first of the Marvel Hip Hop covers to be a retailer exclusive, for Doctor Strange/Punisher: Magic Bullets, drawn by Marco D'Alfonso for

Abraham Riesman of Vulture went to Doctor Strange creator Steve Ditko's office to interview the man, on the occasion of his comic created fifty years ago

Convention organisers ReedPOP and leading comic book grading and slabbing company Certified Guaranty Company, or CGC, have signed an exclusive agreement

Hannah Means-Shannon writes, I have been a fan of Rich Tommaso’s work for some time, and came to discover that many of my friends have been too. When we

Emanuela Lupacchino has an exclusive store variant for the Frankie's Comics/ComicMint/Sad Lemon/7 Ate 9 collective of stores. But we know what it looks

Last year, I reviewed the Highlander comic book published by Eternal Comics and utterly hated it. Looks like I wasn't alone as they have lost the license

Dan Slott, writer of Marvel's Amazing Spider-Man, Clone Conspiracy and Eisner winner for Silver Surfer has never been backwards when coming forwards on

Bleeding Cool has talked a lot about the wonderful Eisner-bait anthology comic that is Meanwhile... published by Soaring Penguin Press. It runs the

Month after month, Diamond Comic Distributors release the monthly statistics for the North American direct market, comprised of comic book stores,

Marvel has just announced a new Inhumans TV show for ABC starring the Royal Family, characters created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby for the Fantastic Four

Ed Benes has another exclusive Rodman Comics cover for the upcoming Justice League vs Suicide Squad comic, as he did for Harley Quinn. Here are the

A week on Wednesday sees the end of Chew. Issue 60. By John Layman and Rob Guillory, published by Image. I mean, we had the real end in 59. I talked about

Veteran comic book writer and editor Paul Kupperberg posted to Facebook the following reason as to why he didn't attend Rhode Island Comic Con in New

NC Comicon brought together a diverse selection of cosplayers at the Durham Convention Center. These are just some of the heroes and villains who suited

In January, Archie Comics publish Riverdale, a one-shot comic by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Alitha Martinez as a prequel to the upcoming TV series,

Nelly the elephant packed her truck and said goodbye to the circus. Off she went... Top Twenty Traffic Of The Week 1. George Peréz To Fulfill Current

By Ray Flook Going through my grocery list of topics I wanted to tackle before convention season madness started but had to put on hold…so I thought I’d

Jericho is the son of Deathstroke. When Marv Wolfman and George Pérez were creating the character for New Teen Titans, they considered whether to make him

Something Trump didn't win. And the December edition of GQ announced that it is, at least, 99% Trump-free. The men are Ryan Reynolds, Usain Bolt and

Several years before the Valiant relaunch ever made it to shelves, ex-Marvel Comics president Bill Jemas was one of many of advisors used by the company

William Blankenship writes, In hindsight it all seems a bit silly. Drawing is the only thing I’ve ever been good at. Before I could talk I had a pencil in

I don't think I've had a press release from an illegal comic book torrent site before. Bleeding Cool has talked about the comic book uploader Nemesis 43,

Yesterday, as arranged by Billy Tucci at Rhode Island Comic Con, Stan Lee who served in the US Military from 1942 to 1945 as a sergeant in the Signal

This is the Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, as compiled by a number of comic stores from their sales on Wednesday and Thursday. It measures what

Bleeding Cool has pointed out how the vast majority of comic book creators who expressed any kind of political allegiance in recent months were

by Ray Flook Now that the convention season is winding-down for 2016, I’ve started going through the long list of topics that I wanted to write about but

Hannah Means-Shannon writes, A few weeks ago, I found out about ToyConNJ through Facebook, and was surprised to find that such a large toy convention had

Jim Starlin has faced down cosmic menace upon cosmic menace in his comics, creating Thanos, Drax the Destroyer, Gamora, Shang-Chi, Master of Kung-Fu for