Rich Johnston Archives

At the Revenge signing yesterday at Banbury, yesterday, I met Ian Harvey Stone, magician and mesmerist, performing with a geek-themed twist, demonstrating

Details have been released for DC Comics - The New 52: Five Years Later Omnibus from Amazon, collecting all of DC's comics in September in one volume,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTn4MwYOU3o I had a very pleasant afternoon visiting Banbury in Oxfordshire yesterday. My parents have retired here, but

Bleeding Cool has covered the activity of the Bonfire Agency in considerable depth. An advertising agency and media buyer specialising in the geek

Not every comic book gets a massive media push for its launch. But 20th Century Fox were kind enough to lend a hand to IDW's licensed 24 comic, the

DC Comics are making a change to the way they make their themed variant covers will be open to order, with no minimum order of another item required.

From the letters page if Ultimate Spider-Man #200, from one Talib 'Abdur-Rashid of Harlem. When last we checked, Steve Ditko was very much alive, aged 86,

Marvel have released an entertaining list of quotes to back up Inhuman #1. But how representative of the original reviews are they? Some are, but some...

Out next week, we have the launch of Batman Eternal, the first weekly DC comic since Countdown.  The new Shutter series from Image. And from Marvel,

Today, Jonathan Ross and Ian Churchill are signing copies of their comic book Revenge today, at Comic Connections, a small comic shop in the sleepy town

Joining some Original Sin dots... From Newsarama, Axel Alonso:  Dark secrets from our hero’s past will emerge – profound and life-changing secrets that

Did you buy Inhuman #1? Were you planning to buy Amazing Spider-Man #1? Then prepare to get a teensy weensy annoyed. Because Marvel are putting the

Alyssa Pack writes: During Emerald City Comic Con, Bleeding Cool landed an interview with all four lovely ladies that worked on Lumberjanes. This

By Ian Melton One title, coming out every week, starring one character who has a huge supporting cast that is going to get a huge spotlight as the weekly

Bleeding Cool has been following the move from DC Comics to Burbank quite a bit since we first announced the news. Right from the beginning, we knew that,

Breaking news can come from pretty much anywhere in the comic book industry. But with DC Comics it generally tends to be an official statement given to a

These are the official statistics for comic books as distributed in North America by Diamond Comic Distributors in the month of March 2014. So what have

For the past week (after a reminder or two) DC Comics creators have been filling in a survey from DC Comics about their working practices and concerns at

It began with a good review on Amazon for the recent release of Vampirella The Best of the Warren Years, though it had a proviso. And for some reason they

CGC has become an integral part of the comic collecting business today. A service that gives numerical values to the condition of a comic book from .5 to

Jasper Sitwell was a character created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, appearing in Strange Tales in 1966, in the Nick Fury Agent Of S.H.I.E.L.D. strip,

EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT: ANDREA Welcome to pop culumnist Andrea Shea, a new Assistant Editor at Aspen Comics. PORTLAND OF COMICS A new indie comic convention

With every upcoming episode of Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., Marvel will be releasing a piece of art to echo and tease the episode in question, the

Two days ago, Bleeding Cool shared the last two pages of Dead Letters #1, the new Boom Studios original series by High Crimes writer Christopher Sebela

Three weeks ago DC Collectibles released the Hush Batman/Catwoman The Kiss Statue. The online DC Shop had it listed as being available to ship as of the

 The Des Moines Register reports how local conservative politician Bob Vander Plaats has been turned into a comic book schoolyard supervillain Bull Von

Tomorrow, at Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles, there will be a Dogeparty to explore the fiuture pf crypto currency. And get free pizza. Meltdown Comics will

After a series of seemingly failed cases over Superman and Kirby rights, Bleeding Cool Magazine dropped attournee Marc Toberoff from the Top 100 Power

From the year 2000, in an interview with Mark Waid, But for every Tom Brevoort, there's a bunch of guys who said, and this is an exact quote from a Marvel

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