Rich Johnston Archives

Taking (Blood)shots with Matthew Klein from Valiant, his message is, I dare you to find a reason not to order big on our books! #returnability

During one-to-one meetings with retailers at ComicsPRO in Portland, Valiant Entertainment wanted Bleeding Cool to know how much we are loved... a toast to

Here are the full versions of the Phantom variant of Silk #2, taking on Amazing Spider-Man #300 just as they did with Spider-Gwen #1. And the Dynamic

Photo by Calum Johnston. Ex-comics store retailer and now Image Comics' retail sales director Corey Murphy has given an address to retailers at the

Boom have announced a second comic at the ComicsPRO retailer meet taking place in Portland. Strange Fruit is a new comic written by Mark Waid with fully

It looks like this might have been intended to come out from Marvel in May, as the solicitation says, rather than June as the PR says. Brian Wood knows

One of Boom's bigger sleeper hits from two years ago was Six-Gun Gorilla, which surprised everyone by taking a pulp era, public domain character and

Photo courtesy of Calum Johnston. Jim Nausedas gave Marvel's presentation at the comic  retailer confernece ComicsPRO at POrtland today. May not have had

Okay, we had an inkling this was coming. Invader Zim is back from the dead. Though for some, he never went away, Take creator Jhonen Vasquez... “I’m

 Well, we still have an inkling for how Punisher will come back. But it's time for the last days of Silver Surfer, Black Widow and, shock and horror, Ms

Yesterday, comic book retailers attending ComicsPRO retaielr meet-and-greet in Portland, received a batch of ComicsPRO exclusive variant covers and

The going rate for a copy of Avengers & X-Men: Axis #1 is under $2. The digital code sells for $1. Right now, retailers are being told that those who

IDW has been showing their wares at ComicsPRO, the retailer meeting going on in Portland right now. They'll be continuing the Spider-Man comic book strip

Valiant Entertainment has just wrapped their ComicsPRO breakfast presentation, kicking off the retailer meet-and-greet day in Portland with several big

The Blacklist has been to Comic Con before... but now it's coming to a comic as well. The successful TV series starring James Spader as FBI's most wanted,

Yesterday's DC presentation at ComicsPRO was also in honour of Senior Vice President and ex-comics retailer Bob Wayne, who is leaving DC Comics this

Received wisdom seems to have been received ignorance. The consensus was that this year's Free Comic Book Day numbers would be a little down, as the

Papercutz tweeted them out, teasers for today's ComicsPRO announcements. I think it's fairly clear, don't you?  Breadwinners... ...and Sanjay And Craig...

Bleeding Cool is continuing to bring you reports from ComicsPRO, the comic book retailer conference happening right now in Portland. And more on

Yesterday, Jeff Stokely tweeted, Hey retailers at @comicspro #ComicsPRO tomorrow! Cool news from @boomstudios around 3:15pm regarding new book from

Written by Amanda Gurall I am going to start this by saying that while my 7 year old daughter loves the show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic I do not

DC senior staffers Bob Wayne, Jim Lee and Dan DiDio made a presentation to comic store retailers today, at ComicsPRO in Portland. As ever, Bleeding Cool

Next Wednesday sees the release of the new Bleeding Cool Magazine #15, the Women In Comics issue. And the launch of Suiciders, Orphan Black (which is

Five hours till the February deadline for ordering your Loot Crate this month. So what do you get? Let's see what we can work out from these three pieces

Bleeding Cool has reported on retailers upset that the Image Comics FCBD title this year is Savage Dragon, ahead of the spinoff launch of Savage Dragon:

ComiXology are hiring. And how. There are currently twenty-eight open positions at the Amazon-owned digital comic book distributor in New York and

We've run a few break out pieces for the new Hellboy comic and Chuck Palahniuk talking Fight Club 2, but Dark Horse had plenty to discuss in their

  Chuck Palahniuk turned up at the ComicsPRO event for comic book retailers, for the Dark Horse Comics presentation. He was there to drum up support

Mike Mignola, at the ComicsPRO retailer summit in Portland has seen Dark Horse Comics give an extensive presentation on their upcoming plans. Amongst

A few slips, twixt solicitations and publication, from the Big Two. Guardians 3000 #6 will no longer be drawn by Gerardo Sandoval. Batman Eternal #46 was