Rich Johnston Archives

It's become a thing of late. Comic book conventions and their harassment policies. I've been a victim of such myself and, as a foreigner in the USA,

Having a look through the new solicitations for January 2014 makes interesting reading for all sorts of reasons. But one thought sticks out, for products

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkctEMZpcZA Grace Randolph writes; My review of the NYCC 2013 highlights from Marvel and DC Comics! Stephanie Brown joins

It looks like DC Comics will be kicking off September's Five Years Later event with Free Comic Book Day next year... Well joining it from Marvel,

The following is part of a series of videos by Marq Romero of his NYCC experience using Google Glass. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFM5HSU2Fkg My

Timothy Carson writes; According to ComiXology sales last week taken from iOS in-app purchase charts, the world can’t seem to get enough of zombies and

Copies of this exclusive variant cover for Sandman Overture #1 are only available through the Diamond Previews membership drive for retailers who join the

There used to be a British gameshow called Bullseye. On the dour northern side, they used to take pleasure showing off prizes that the losing couple

Charlaine Harris, writer of the Sookie Stackhouse novels that became the True Blood TV series seems to have got the bug of writing words to be turned into

Planned to debut digitally from Archaia, with a graphic novel to follow next summer, the plans for actress/producer Alyssa Milano's comic Hacktivist

Created by Warren Ellis and given new life by Mike Wolfer, Bleeding Cool owners Avatar Press are relaunching Gravel Combat Magician in January with a new

Here come the IDW solicitations for January 2014... the start of a new Pony comic, an X-Files crossover with the rest of the titles, a new book called

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRmtUoQ4LzM Grace Randolph writes; With all the Marvel and DC movies coming soon, one has to wonder if they are helping or

Recently, Bleeding Cool favourite Alex De Campi has been writing Grindhouse for Dark Horse, a series of nasty, exploitative, seedy and downright

We rumoured this before, but now it's confirmed. X-Files: Conspiracy #1 (of 2) out in January. Paul Crilley (w) • John Stanisci (a) • Miran Kim (c) The

Andy Bentley writes from New York Comic Con; Confession time: I’m a bad con attendee. I peruse the panel offerings beforehand and find interesting smaller

Bleeding Cool reader Brad Searles writes; I caught Jeffrey Lewis & The Rain (opening for Quasi) here in Boston last night, and he played a new-ish

Andy Bentley writes; If you haven’t been following along, Mattel’s Mattycollector offerings has been anemic as of late. This past summer, the DC Infinite

Well, it was only a dollar. Oni Press has sold out of the first print run of Charles Soule and Alberto Jimenez Alberquerque's Letter 44. I rather liked

By Tony Wolf for Bleeding Cool What better way to celebrate Columbus Day, October 14, that day known for some European guy travelling to the North

Joe Glass writes; Capes, tights, and insane bulges are common at NYCC but no more so at gay con party Skin Tight USA. The lycra superhero brigade joined

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

A documentary on The Walking Dead, created by Skybound Productions and Hyundai. Basically it's an advertorial. But it's a really good one. DC All Access,

Missing from the new Marvel solicitations for January, is a certain Fearless Defenders. At the time the book began, Marvel Comics was suffering a deficit

The Illegitimates from IDW “When the world loses its greatest (and most promiscuous) super-spy, Jack Steele, a secret international espionage organization

Marvel have made an agreement with Alan Moore to not use his name in conjunction with their reprinting of the Marvelman/Miracleman comic book, at his

New York Comic Con may have been and gone. But the Marvel teasers are still with us. And in this case, teasing a new comic about a superhero afflicted

Michael Davis is the co-founder of Milestone Comics and a current graphic novelist. He runs The Black Panel at San Diego Comic Con. And he now writes a

A few of your favorite things from yesterday: Most-Read Comic Stories Wednesday: A Possible Superior Spider-Man Spoiler? At New York Comic Con, Superior

David Blake Lucarelli writes; Last weekend, as NYCC was busy establishing itself as the East Coast equivalent of San Diego Comic-Con, the Alternative