Rich Johnston Archives

Yesterday, after reading his comments about the problems with exclusives at San Diego Comic Con, I spoke with Chuck Rozanski of Mile High Comics at his

Nikolai Formich writes, On Saturday, animation legend Willie Ito was awarded the Inkpot award. Ito worked in animation as a character designer, layout

Remember when Jonathan Ross was castigated after accepting the invitation from Neil Gaiman to host this year's Hugo Awards? It was quite a thing and made

Paraded at the Retailer Lunch at San Diego Comic Con, IDW showed off a bunch of comics that they had previously cold out of, including this week's

Reported from the Retailer Lunch at San Diego Comic Con, Diamond Comic Distributors wanted to point out that, while sales may be a little softer in recent

By Nikolai Fomich Every year at SDCC, Christian proselytizers and counter-protesters gather outside of the convention to battle for the hearts and minds

All by one person, of course. No, no, seriously now. Madefire have put up the Polish comic Milk For The Ugly on their digital distribution service. And it

So here is a thing. According to the Salt Lake Comic Con, San Diego Comic-Con has sent them a cease and desist letter over their use of the phrase "Comic

Every year the crew of Ascension watch an old black-and-white film, from a German rocket scientist based on Von Braun, announcing the Ascension project.

The Nailbiter is a big comics fan, but is not happy that Bendis killed Peter Parker, the Ultimate Spider-Man. Brian Bendis has agreed to appear in an

Jeremy Konrad lets us know... Hasbro is partnering with Marvel to do exclusive Marvel Legends variant covers in October. Ten in total. First two are here.

Peter S. Svensson drinks Gatorade and writes for Bleeding Cool. Boom Studios had their annual panel at Comic Con, which didn’t announce any new titles,

It has just been announced at San Diego Comic Con that Kieron Gillen and Jason Aaron are the two new writers for two new Star Wars monthly titles to be

Peter S Svensson has been liveblogging the IDW Rocks panel. Catch it all here. But worth breaking out a few announcements from the panel. Such as the

Joseph K Schmidt liveblogged from San Diego, for the panel for The Boxtrolls by Laika, based on Alan Snow’s novel Here Be Monsters! Moderator Dave

The PR images are out. And we can see the covers for Star Wars by artist John Cassaday, Darth Vader by Adi Granov and Princess Leia by Terry Dodson. The

Abigail Raney writes, A fair number of things happened in Once Upon a Time's panel: Ginnifer Goodwin Skyped in from Vancouver and knocked out Michael

Ray Flook reports from San Diego Comic Con. He writes, Berkeley Breathed discussed a future animated project, Something About C-Mo, about a mysterious

Pete Sailer liveblogged this panel from the far suburbs of San Diego, Room 28DE. This panel promises “lively discussion” on Little

Joe Glass has been liveblogging the DC Weeklies panel for Bleeding Cool. There's been no Band-Aid announcement yet, there is of course no necessity that

Abigail Raney writes, I had the chance to sit down with the cast and producers of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. yesterday, and in true S.H.I.E.L.D.

Abigail Raney writes, “I just want to say that I've seen their pilot, and it's insane. It's the best pilot I've ever seen.” This is what Clark Gregg has

As explained at the Diamond Retailer Lunch yesterday, Diamond are creating new applications for retailers to help create their own in-store signage. One

Many more people have read our article on Afterlife With Archie #6... than have read Afterlife With Archie #6. It has been the most popular post of the

Announcing at San Diego Comic Con, the previously mentioned September Mourning title, originally to be written by David Hine, will be written by Marc

Top Cow Comics have a history of publicly attracting new creators. Their Talent Hunt initiatives have published thirty writers and artists new to comic

Announced at yesterday's Aspen panel at San Diego Comic Con... Aspen’s  2014 series Lola XOXO returns in 2015 with  Lola XOXO: Volume 2 by creator Siya

Chuck Rozanski, owner of Mile High Comics is exhibiting at San Diego Comic Con. And he has something to say. He writes, from his store's newsletter, Every

By Jeremy Konrad Kicking off Friday’s Star Wars programing was a panel that most people were not in the room for, but eventually were won over by the fun

By Jeremy Konrad with Joe Glass After 7 long hours of panels today, the batteries needed a recharge. Myself and my colleague Joe decided to stop into a