Rich Johnston Archives

Firstly, there are Tube strikes this week and next, which may well affect your New Comics Day... transport will be affected from 9.30pm Tuesday until

Marat Mychaels is working on a new issue of his comic, Blindside. Working on Blindside #2 pic.twitter.com/QZJJaVJ4 — Marat_Mychaels (@MaratMychaels)

When the porn parody version of Quicksilver looks better than the actual movie version... So what have you been reading this week? Well, top of the list,

Signed books. I have a fair few. You probably do too. Each one a memory of meeting the person responsible for the work in question, and I instantly travel

Next Frame is a Swedish project in which Brazilian comic creator and favourite of Bleeding Cool, Rafael Grampá and his corporate shill sponsors Absolut

"The Comic Book Industry Reacts to Super Bowl Ads" - Bleeding Cool article tomorrow — Benjamin Bailey (@616Earth) February 1, 2014 Good idea, Ben!

Oops... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttz8554ApxE

Bill Watterson has won the Angoulême Grand Prix, giving the creator of Calvin & Hobbes membership of the Angoulême Academy and making him president of

One of the official sponsors of this year's Angoulême comic festival is SodaStream, a company under considerable PR pressure over its factory built in

When it comes to the Super Bowl, I feel like Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellan. Football! pic.twitter.com/rdtXP6IGTE — Patrick Stewart

Bleeding Cool reported on how Geoff Johns had been asked by Diane Nelson to restrict the monthly comics he was writing to two. He'd dropped Green Lantern,

Marvel is doing some kind of "Party" launch for Iron Man #23.NOW. Okay, they are not expecting balloons, cake or attempts to have sex in the stationery

From the new Miracleman #2... Thank goodness for modern printing production quality. I wonder how "Superflick" looked when it was originally printed?

The vatican Twitter account shows grafitti featuring Pope Francisco in an iconographic superhero pose, holding a briefcase with the word "Valores"

So Alan Moore is one of the three main nominees for the Grand Prix of Angoulême, alongside Bill Watterson and Katsuhiro Otomo. Such an honour, the

One missed "protection" payment caused the almightiest of battles on MMORG EVE Online this past week. As Digital Trends stated, The massive battle has

So Mike Marts is a new Executive Editor of Marvel. Which also answers the question that began "Now with Steve Wacker leaving...." So what did everyone

One of the amazing regular events at Angouleme is the twenty-four hour comic event, in which comic creators, professionals, amateurs and students all

This is the Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, as compiled by a number of comic stores from their sales on Wednesday and Thursday. It measures what

Whether someone is terrible, overrated, married, a hack, racist, ruining DC and/or Marvel, these are the questions that people have been asking of Google,

By Ken Haeser for Battlestar Galactica #12 subscription variant cover from Dynamite... sadly not in time for Valentine's Day.

Marvel has been advertising Winter Soldier: The Bitter March on all their titles of late. A series intended to tie in (in money terms if nothing else)

We said that it would be unlikely that Mike Marts, Group Editor of the Batman titles at DC Comics would be making the move with the company from New York

Nathan Fox's ads for the School of Visual Arts that ran on the New York subway were quite the hit. And now they're looking further afield.Tako, the star

In one week... a new Lobster Johnson comic, the Joker's Daughter oneshot, Apocalypse Al, Loki Agent Of Asgard, Ms Marvel, Punisher, Wolverine and Turok

David Schulner has talked about the upcoming TV adaptation of Image/Skybound comic book Clone at Bloody-Disgusting. The script is done. It was a blast to

Next week's Bleeding Cool Magazine has a lot to say about weekly comics, with DC launching both a Batman Eternal weekly comic as well as the Five Years

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

On Wednesday, well over twice as many people read our spoileriffic article on the final issue of Green Team: Teen Trillionaires... than read Green Team:

ComiXology are at Angouleme, and are surveying people passing by the booth... and these are the results so far. And they have Jeremy Nguyen writing and