Rich Johnston Archives

I recently became aware of someone who commissioned a well known comic book artist for a piece of art for the sum of $200 at a comic convention, and was

Four years ago, Image Comics published Phonogram: The Singles Club #5 with the wrong barcode. Retailers were asked to destroy them. Most did. But. even

James Tynion has been talking about Red Hood And The Outlaws #19. And what we can expect from issue 20. These two issues are followed by the 38-page

This weekend, London becomes a cultural city of comics. This afternoon, there's the First Comica Symposium of talks at Central St Martin's College Of

It's so easy to take a panel out of context in some comic book, a medium which relies on surrounding panels to give it any kind of meaning, comprehension

A month ago, Bleeding Cool broke the story that Joshua Hale Fialkov had walked off his Green Lantern books in protest in being told to kill off DC's most

Just hitting Britain, and arriving on the US shores in under five hours, Marvel are knocking issues from the World War Hulk event out for 99 cents a pop

Tyler Kirkham, familiar from comics such as New Guardians, Teen Titans and Amazing Spider-Man has a new comic coming from Zenescope in June. And it's

Jim Hanley's Universe, one of the most famous comic shops in the world, located opposite the Empire State Building. will be closing at the end of the

According to a preview at MTVGeek the art team on Katana #3 is no longer the solicited Cristina Coronas and Bill Sienkiewicz. It's now penciller Cliff

  Given Marvel's tendency to name Russian characters after their Soviet background, such as the Red Ghost and the Red Guard, wasn't a little odd that

When we originally said that Age Of Ultron #10 would see a non-Marvel character join the publisher, everyone guessed it was Marvelman. Then it was

Here are some advance pages B&W unlettered pages from the new comic by Andy Diggle and Aaron Campbell, cheekily titled "Uncanny", from Dynamite. I'm

Reported by Samuel Delaney, Neil Gaiman and Heidi MacDonald, Robert Morales has passed away. Best know to comics folk for his Truth: Red White And Black

Comic creators Ken Lowery and Robert Wilson IV found themselves victim to a particular nasty scam, regarding their Kickstarter project, Like A Virus.

by Chris Thompson This week Taylor & I celebrate the long-overdue release of Landry Walker, Eric Jones & Rusty Drake’s Danger Club #5 from Image

A few weeks ago, Bleeding Cool ran the rumour that Legion Of Superheroes may be seeking a little Justice League inspiration and modelling themselves after

Next week, we get what is likely to be 2013's best selling creator owned comic, Jupiter's Legacy by Mark Millar and Frank Quitely, with at least 150,000

Andrew Mertes writes; Our long international nightmare has finally come to an end. Yes, that’s right folks, after being missing in action for several

Frank Santaro, Eisner judge wrote this a few months ago Before Watchmen blacklist Here’s a handy list of all the comics makers who participated in Before

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLIRqrACH98 Shaolin Cowboy. The toy. It exists. And can knocks down walls...

The upcoming Ezekiel/Michonne faceoff is attracting plenty of Walking Dead advance reorders from comic book retailers trying to make up the numbers on

I'm still watching Iron Man 3. Maybe I'm liking it, maybe I'm not, there's no way to tell. So thanks to Jenny B of dialtosave international call for this

As this is being published, I'm off to see the Iron Man movie. SO what does that mean? Well, it means that while I'm there you might just get an

Acme Comics of Arizona is turning Free Comic Book Day into a mini comic convention, with Erik Larsen, Eric Canete and, well, all these people below...

Joshua Stone writes; Have you see “The Most Interesting Man in the World” Dos Equis commercials? At the end of the Spotlight on Jim Steranko panel at

Yesterday, Monkeybrain's doigital comic Bandette by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover received four Eisner Award nominations. Today, the fourth issue comes

Two-and-a-half weeks ahead of Free Comic Book Day, Marvel's offering Infinity has already been pirated and uploaded by infamous advance scanner known as

This is the gatefold cover to Wonder Woman #19, out today. And yes, that scene does occur in the comic. And no it's not some unexplained hallucination,

We know Tony Stark is an alcoholic. A womaniser. A bit of a tech head. And we know he likes dressing up in harsh metallic power suits. But until today,m