Rich Johnston Archives

Sergio Toppi, principal influence on the likes of Sean Gordon Murphy, Simone Bianchi, Walt Simonson, Bill Sienkiewicz and Francesco Francavilla is to have

Yes, this is definitely the day when comic book publishers announce that "proper" book writers are doing comic books. What with Book Expo America going on

Well, Dynamite are at the Book Expo America in New York. So they've announced three more book author deals to go with this morning's two. So there's a

 Effective June 25th, DC Comics staff members will no longer receive complimentary copies of the comics that DC publish, nor the collections. Instead,

Live in London? Visiting? Can get here on the train? Well there's plenty to do in the comics world in the city through June... here are a few. Send in

This is a Prometheus poster, licenced published by Mondo by artist Marko Manev. Or at least it was. Until some folk pointed out its similarity to Tim

To coincide with the Book Expo in New York where Dynamite are exhibiting, they are announcing a number of plans. All around pose authors... Such as the

This was the tweet that caused a bit of a twitterstorm last night. Jase loves to read comics and draw super heroes. He was named most artistic in his

The last page of last month's Guardians Of The Galaxy #14. The front cover of yesterday's Guardians Of The Galaxy #15. Solicited as: With the entire

Poor Mark. He doesn't have a lot of luck with solicitations. Kick Ass 2 #1 launched with a bit of a muddle. And now Starlight #5 missed its June

Consider this an irregular feature looking at comic books that have gone to second prints or more. Now, it is worth remembering that some publishers plan

It's no secret that Marvel Comics have been prepping a revival of the Inhumans as a franchise for spinoff comics and potentially a movie some time down

Dan Panosian posted on Facebook, This guy, Benjamin Spark, has placed my Danger Girl cover over Darwyn Cooke's panels and is calling it fine art... I love

Yesterday, Micah Baldwin, former of Graphicly, now at Blurb, wrote, Today is the Graphicly team’s first day at Blurb. (I’ll leave talk about the

A Big Trouble in Little China comic was announced by Boom! at this year's ComicsPRO Annual Meeting and made a big splash online. There haven't been any

In a press release, Diamond Comic Distribution and digital publisher Trajectory Inc have announced agreement to publish comics distributed by Diamond as

Harbinger #23 hits stands tomorrow, and, as you might have noticed, Valiant has been playing a bit coy with this issue, the central installment of the

Disney owns Marvel, bought for around four billion dollars. But a few decades ago the relationship was rather different, as Disney sued Marvel over their

From today's Chew/Revival crossover... an interesting flipbook that has two separate crossovers between the cast of each book, in their own separate and

Interesting Drug has come to the right place if they're looking for weird people... welcome to a few thoughts about a few of today's comics. Jim Gordon

Helena Bertinelli was The Huntress. But that was in a different reality. This is how she used to look, And this is how she looks in Arrow. In  Worlds'

From today's Batman #31, as previously revealed at C2E2... This is probably the scene that sums up the Zero Year storyline more than ever. Taking the

Europe recently held elections for the European Union, and Britain held local council elections on the same day. Europe saw an increase in nationalist

Any second now... Joe Michael Straczynski is selling his desk. The one he used to write, well... That's right, buy this desk and JMS will let you write

At the Diamond Retailer Summit in Las Vegas two weekends ago, Boom! Studios told retailers their new series with George Pérez would debut in September. I

From the first press release for Grant Morrison's Multiversity... Comprising seven complete adventures -- each set in a different parallel universe -- a

Take an anthill. Stick a twig into it. Watch how all the ants scurry around, rebuilding, reorganising, attacking the stick, climbing the stick, coping

"Not so much pushing the envelope of comicbook storytelling as folding it up to make a nice hat." Electricomics. Coming tomorrow. The Facebook page lists

This morning we reported that digital publisher Graphicly was shutting down and staff moving to book publisher Blurb. Michah Baldwin talks about the move

Cosplayer Nicole Jacobs writes about experiences of harassment at recent comic conventions. Jacobs writes: I have been cosplaying since September of 2013,