Rich Johnston Archives

Bret Parks of Ssalefish Comics in Winston Salem, NC bid $3000 to win this piece a couple of weeks ago to benefit the CBLDF. Kevin Eastman writes, Thank

Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market. Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale. Where supply and

We mentioned this a few weeks ago but now it seems to have all gone official. And there's a picture, and everything. 343 Industries and Dark Horse Comics

That's the message in this flyer from Ssalefish Comics, in Winston Salem, North Carolina. Would be opportune ahead of the upcoming AMC production of

Marvel are publishing another free preview booklet for comic book stores, this time entitled Marvel New Stories/The Road To Civil War II. It will show off

Lauren Beukes, David Halvorson and Ryan Kelly's ongoing comic for DC/Vertigo. Survivors' Club has its ninth issue solicited for May. But there may not be

A few more changes 'twixt solicitation and publication... Uncanny X-Men #6 will be drawn by Paco Medina well as the previously solicited Ken Lashley.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rewhHdFDCZg&feature=youtu.be On the Doctor Who Fan Show on YouTube (above), Doctor Who star Peter Capaldi decided to

  From The Dollar Bin. we have an interview with Marc Alessi. The multi-millionaire IT man behind Crossgen. A comic book publisher created at the end

Whether Marvel will actually go ahead and publish these second prints is still up in the air. But hopefully they are over that moment when they announced

Loot Crate is the monthly geek-friendly subscription service with up to half a million subscribers that promises exclusivity on many of the items it

So there was a new Captain America trailer. Spider-Man was in it. People had things to say. https://twitter.com/humberto_ramos/status/707981871007686656

Earlier this week Bleeding Cool reported on a New York Times update, covering a legal case that has taken the best part of the decade. The case alleges

I noted that the Neil Gaiman/Mark Buckingham remastered reprints and new chapters of their Miracleman run from Marvel Comics were missing from recent

Remember those original art variant covers in the Harley Quinn Little Black Bag bags? Well they're doing something similar with the Batman V Superman

This is the released solicitation for Justice League #51 for May, as seen in DC Comics' May solicitations. JUSTICE LEAGUE #51 Written by GEOFF JOHNS Art

Spider-Man...Shifting....Eyes... You can probably thank Deadpool for popularising the CG-animated eyes to enable the character to emote in the new Captain

This Batman #50/Superman #50 set exclusive retailer  may be harder to get than some... As they are exclusive, by Lee Bermejo, for the Paris Comic Expo

If your name's not on the door at Challengers Comics in Chicago, you're not coming in. During C2E2, Eliot Rahal and Daniel Kibblesmith are launching their

Not every sitcom has to be full of up to the minute topical gags. At least one sitcom is satisfied with jokes that are at least two thousand years old.

CBR has been handed a Marvel PR preview of the new series International Iron Man #1 by Brian Bendis and Alex Maleev. Maleev was born in Sofia, Bulgaria,

https://twitter.com/billgates/status/702852298771447808 Not only that but they were in mint condition. Until Bill got to them, naturally... Bill and

 A selection of previously unseen artwork and the names of international musical collaborators have been announced in advance of the world premiere

Last year, Bleeding Cool reported on the ongoing legal case that Marvel CEO Isaac Perlmutter is embroiled with, concerning his neighbour Harold Peerenboom

Three weeks till the final issue of Matt Kindt and Scott Kolins' comic The Pastaways hit. But you can get a sneak peek of the end times right here... It’s

Posted by Joe Quinones to his blog yesterday...  Batman ‘89. Which he describes as,  a bunch of proof of concept art I did for a Batman miniseries pitch

Coming in two weeks from Dark Horse Comics, Tomb Raider II #2... After Rise of the Tomb Raider, Lara Croft’s adventure continues with Eisner Award-

DC Comics are giving the first issue of Harley Quinn And Her Gang Of Harleys a variant cover by Amanda Conner, open to order and with an open space to be

It seems a peculiarly American choice for a Hallowe'en costume to take the outfit of a trade, cut about 9/10 of it away and call it "sexy". Sexy nurse,

Mike Zagari is the big new hire for relatively new  AfterShock Comics, as the new SVP of Digital and Creative, where it is intended that he will oversee