Rich Johnston Archives

No Midnighter. No Poison Ivy. No Gotham By Midnight. Not even Catwoman? Just lots of Batman, Superman and other Justice League titles for DC Rebirth on a

Star Wars delivers a one-two this week with O-O-O and C-3PO making a great double. Moon Knight also does extremely well as a launch title but of it wasn't

The news that Steve Pugh would be the artist for the upcoming DC Comics reboot of The Flintstones was very appealing to me. His original art, if you ever

Do you know what is handy for a comic book publisher? When a movie star poses with a comic book featuring the character they are playing. No, not that

Mathew Klickstein writes, “As I like to say, we won – the geeks have inherited the earth!” Len Wein, editor of Alan Moore’s Watchmen and creator of such

I understand, from retailers who attended recent meetings with DC Comics that the DC Rebirth titles have a two year story arc that all books will be a

This is artist Camilla Rojas, posing next to a Batgirl image he drew. Which bears an uncanny resemblance to this image from All-Star Batman And Robin The

Announced at a Venice cartoon festival, it was announced that an animated series based on the Dragonero series published by Bonelli in Europe and Dark

Two boxes came on two days - both get unboxed.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKk0xkjpJgE The first Firefly Loot Crate

I think this is the first of the AfterShock Comics line to officially sell out at the publisher and necessitate a second printing. It really is rather

Insight Editions is an imprint of Palace Press International, a book publishing company based in San Rafael, California. They focuse on illustrated books

At an Italian comics show, earlier this month, the stand of an publisher who published a antifascist comic book parody of Mussolini was vandalized, by a

Marvel clearly doesn't hate the X-Men. It's a straw man argument made by Marvel to counter those who see the X-Men books less promoted, less licensed,

The comic based on the Dark Souls game debuts from Titan Comics next Wednesday. And naturally, comes in a variety of variants, some exclusive to the store

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYjWB0V4xCw Audi and Marvel have been intertwined promotionally since the first Iron Man movie. And now Marvel have made

Okay, so I may be going to a screening of Captain America: Civil War next Tuesday for Bleeding Cool. Thank you Disney! But even before I walk through the

2015 was a good year for the direct market comics industry. Sales all over were up. Year on year, sales grew 7.17% over 2014; comic books were up 8.99%,

Years ago, when I was a full-time advertising copywriter, I once worked for big corporate ad giant Grey. Where I met Hayden Rogers, a fellow comic book

A semi-regular look at who is working where in comics - and possibilities out there. Dark Horse has promoted of Kari Yadro to the role of director of

Guignol creator Brett Schwaner writes for Bleeding Cool: Could a Walking Dead feature film become the highest-grossing horror movie of all-time? It's the

Who would have thought it would be Avatar Press who would send two years showing DC Comics what a twice-monthly on-time comic with the same creators as

DC's decision to make the first three month's of their DC Rebirth titles starting in June is likely to see their marketshare increase dramatically for

Bryan Lee O'Malley and Leslie Hung's Snotgirl, Caitlin Kittredge and Steven Sanders' Throwaways, Brandon Thomas, Juan Gedeon and Frank Martin's Horizon,

Devon Sanders writes, A couple of months ago, DC Comics basically went full on "Boyz II Men-90's-slow- jam- R&B-style," realized what it had lost, got

While the Apocalypse Wars X-Men titles are all running homages to X-Factor #6 on their covers, the first cover appearance of Apocalypse... The Wizard

The media pressure group One Million Moms is having a hard time of it of late. No one seems to have listened to their campaigns to stop people from

Ray Dillon and Renae De Liz are having a lot of success right now with the Legend Of Wonder Woman digital first comic from DC. The President of DC Comics,

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

A long time ago Miller & Sons published Captain Marvel reprints in Britain. Then, as a result of the DC Vs Fawcett trial, the source of those reprints

As part of the DC surprise June solicitations, there were listing on the order form for Batman/Superman #33, Batman/Superman Annual #3 and Superman/Wonder