Rich Johnston Archives

In 1984, Marvelman was behind on its schedule for Warrior magazines. Fearing newstand distributor disatisfaction, Dez Skinn got writer Alan Moore to write

Ahead of the Final Order Cut-Off date of February 3rd for Sandman Overture #2, DC Comics are encouraging retailers to up their orders with the promise of

First this ran. #WhatIsThisPlace pic.twitter.com/NT5bTc218q — BOOM! Studios (@boomstudios) January 28, 2014 Then Batman's James Tynion IV tweeted out the

The Afterlife With Archie trade collection, in April, will feature a Direct Market “Exclusive” cover. It’ll be printed on 12 point stock with a matte

A few creative changes coming up for this week from Marvel and DC Comics... We knew that Superior Spider-Man #26 had changed from Pasqual Ferry to Ramos,

A long time ago, I self-published a comic called The X-Flies Special. Featuring a couple of flies. Fox Fly and Scully Fly. You can probably guess where I

Here are a couple of screengrabs from the inexplicably popular Bingo Bash app from BitRymes Inc. And Supergirl by Michael Turner. Yes, she doesn't need

Yesterday, we ran an open letter to the comics industry by Dennis Barger about the recent IDW Powerpuff Girls cover that he campaigned to get withdrawn,

There is, apparently, a sitcom on E4 called The Midnight Beast. I have never heard of it. It's probably for young folk. But they did send this trailer in,

I rather enjoy the Marvel AR additions, when I can get them to work (All New X-Men #21 I'm looking at you) or when they don't forget to include them

Mark Millar is quite the political animal. Describing himself as a lifelong socialist, at the last General Election not only did he switch allegiance from

Comics Alliance eulogises Morrie Turner, the first black nationally syndicated cartoonist in the US. In the early 1960s, Turner began questioning why

Monica's Gang is one of the most successful comics around, and certainly America's best selling comic. It just happens to mostly sell in South America.

Bleeding Cool always likes to keep an eye of applications for trademarks in and around comics. And here come a couple of interesting ones. Justice, Inc

Bleeding Cool has been following Boom! Studios' original series Day Men with art by Brian Stelfreeze since before it launched. We broke the news that the

The Cité du Livre of Aix-en-Provence in France is planning its major exhibition of comic book artwork for the year, their eleventh to date. And they have

A classic opening Silver Surfer splash by John Buscema, courtesy of Mile High Comics. And Burne Hogarth's Tarzan, soon to be re-released. In Swipe File we

Recently, Sex Criminals tried to give us a musical number, with the lead singing Queen's Fat Bottomed Girls with everyone else, well, behaving as they

by Olly MacNamee Long time reader, first time writer here at Bleeding Cool. Having been a teacher for nearly two decades (gulp!) and a comic book fan for

Dennis Barger, Co-Owner of Wonderworld Comics, Taylor, MI, writes, Let me start this letter out with a cliché...children are the future of this industry.

Featuring Kelly Eden, Ari Honey and Zilla308 there... It's been that kind of week. This was the week when I organised a troop of Facebook employees in

There's a phrase I've mostly heard screenwriters for television use, the "idiot ball", where in order to make a plot work in the the time you have, one of

Welcome back to Disenchanted, Si Spurrier and German Erramouspe's grown-up fairytale comics, a free webcomic from Bleeding Cool's publisher Avatar. The

Could Wally West be reincarnated at a young African American boy? Does that mean a Latina Donna Troy is far behind?

PHOTOGRAPHIC PROOF Jackie Estrada's Kickstarter to fund Comic Book People, a hardcover book of photographs of comic folk taken through the seventies and

Okay, so we all know (now) that Hawkeye #16 came out before Hawkeye #15. It happens. Very occasionally. But Marvel aren't finished messing with the

Ales Kot made the case for giving colourists and letterers percentage points on the multimedia rights of a comic book. It generated quite a bit of

For some, Brad Meltzer is the man behind DC Comics' Identity Crisis. When you-know-what happened to Sue Dibny. To others he's a leading novelist with a

A couple of years ago, the North London comic convention Kapow won two Guinness Book Of World Records for the fastest produced comic book and the most

Edward Greenberg of the Collector's Paradise stores writes, regarding the Unity #1 3D cover offer from Valiant that we covered in depth. The Valiant 3D