Rich Johnston Archives

José Ortiz Moya died yesterday, aged 81. A Spanish, or Catalan artist, he worked on comics including Warren's Apocalypse, Night of the Jackass and Coffin

Two countries separated by the same language. Words used in the UK and the US, commonplace in each, gain very different takes when used by the other.

Do you have a Dropbox account? You might want to start. Image Comics has announced they have a new arrangement with the cloud file sharing service, son

Marvel are putting out a new series, Disney Kingdoms: Seekers Of The Weird, based on the work of their Imagineers team... Except it appears that comic

We hear that Bill Rosemann, who returned to Marvel seven years ago, after several years at DC Comics, has now been promoted from Editor to Creative

Sometimes a comic book gets hot for no known reason. It's like magic, it's a mystery. And right now a copy of Black Science #2 has sold for $26 on eBay,

Not many comics out in print today. Don't worry, we have a solution. Keep reading. Avengers #24.NOW is the most Christmassy comic book printed today, in

Tomorrow sees Matt Smith's final appearance as The Doctor in The Time of The Doctor. And the first appearance of anything more than Peter Capaldi's eyes

Wolverine. Savage Wolverine. Wolverine & The X-Men. Amazing X-Men. Wolverine MAX. Ultimate X-Men. Avengers. Origin II. Marvel Knights: X-Men.

In case you needed reminding... ...this week, new comics (what few there are) go on sale on Tuesday, not Wednesday. Unless you shop in a Barnes &

This is Philip Bond's Christmas card, sent from the Bond family,  including Executive Editor of Vertigo Comics, Shelly Bond. And this is Philip's only

That's one way to get ahead of the film.... and get a tattoo of someone's arm on your arm. Okay so Christmas is coming, the Blob is getting fat. Bleeding

Edwin Rosell was best known in the comics industry as an inker, working for Wildstorm on comics such as Gen 13 and Alan Moore's run on Voodoo (above). But

Avengers World #1 is expected to be a somewhat political comic book, following the events of Infinity and the Avengers titles in creating an Avengers for

Back in June, we ran a story saying that lots of Doctor Who missing episodes were coming back. Sourced from a bunch of radio engineers I knew from my radio advertising days, who were in the right studio at the right time, I went with it.

Rob Liefeld likes his comic books. And he's always working on one thing or another, some projects get twisted around in the telling. A Wolverine issue

Well now isn't that sweet, January's Avengers #25 steals a trick from All-New X-Men and brings the original Avengers from the sixties to the present, a

The highly regarded prizes given out by the Angoulême Comic Book Festival have, in the past, been criticised for being too insular. Recognising comic book

Ales Kot had a rather reduced run on Suicide Squad, just four issues to relaunch the book before he was suddenly surplus to requirements. But he prefers

Curse of the Vessel is a supernatural crime thriller, written/created by Michael Leal, penciled by Mike Wilson and colored by Michael McElveen. The

FOOM #2 - The First Appearance Of Wolverine, In 1973?

This week's comics were actually delivered to comic stores last week, and held to be put out on shelves on Christmas Eve, with stores embargoed up to the

It's been away for a while. There have been Daytrippers and Fabulous Killjoys since. But now, according to My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way, the Doom

Locke & Key saw its last issue release this week and many are singing its praises and mourning the close of an instant classic. But though Locke &

Sharknado. It says so much. Well, The Asylum, the studio that brought you that deadly attack of marine mammals from the sky, has another

UPDATE: It's a Christmas story of good cheer, the missing artwork has been located and reunited with its owner! Mulled wine and figgy puddling all round!

This isn't exactly business as usual... Looking for a great book to read? Check out BUZZKILL #5 from @Doncates and @DarkHorseComics ! We'll even thrown in

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

At Bleeding Cool, we love typos. We embrace them, we worship them, we cherish them. So we are especially pleased when publishers like Marvel join in the

Out on Tuesday, a rather meagre week for comics, but bulked up on the list with lots of variant covers... and one question sent in by a retailer who has