Rich Johnston Archives

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

Ian Melton writes from Wizard World Portland Comic Con, I spoke briefly with Joseph Michael Linsner, first about his work on Conan about how Dark Horse

Ian Melton writes for Bleeding Cool from Wizard World Portland Comic Con: Wizard World has partnered up with the LA Film School, and its owners Paul

The figures aren't in yet. But crack Bleeding Cool reporter Ian Melton tells us, from Wizard World Portland, that not only has the convention expanded to

Little Maia and the Coral City, illustrated by Robert Geronimo, colored by Jose Expósito Kickstarter end date: February 12, 2014. Release date: May 2014

Total Hero Team podcast - MJ Hibbett (and Steve) First episode online now, with new episodes every Friday  MJ Hibbett (the man who brought you 'Alan

Jai Undurti, writes "Heads"for India's financial heavyweight newspaper The Mint, drawn by  Biboswan Bose in "Mignola-mode"...

The Last Cavalier Graphic Novel Special First Edition on Kickstarter Artist: Gianluca Gugliotta (Black Panther, Lois Lane and the Resistance) Writers:

From pressure group One Million Moms... Alerting all parents! If "Good Luck Charlie" goes through with introducing LGBT content, then the floodgates will

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

I have to say Sean Bean doesn't look too happy. But everyone else seems to get into the spirit of things. The current playing advert on Film4 for its

Zam Map writes, So there I was, in the Northern hall of the Javits center in a slightly uncomfortable pair of shoes and a robe that was a bit too big for

Jesse James of Jesse James Comics of Arizona writes, The Convention season officially kicked off two weeks ago. Image Expo and Albuquerque Comic Con

This week saw the publication of X-Files: Conspiracy: Ghostbusters from IDW which saw the Lone Gunmen of the X-Files franchise investigating the mystery

There has been a small comics creator war brewing under the surface, specifically over creator owned books, between those writers who split the rights to

The Powerpuff Girls cover story that we seemed to break out the other day has travelled the internet like wildfire, now ending up in the Guardian (with a