Rich Johnston Archives

Shawn Dumumbrum writes; After completing their first successful Kickstarter campaign and publishing the first issue of their Cromwell Green this summer,

DiscountMags.com is holding a "hobby" sale until midnight tonight in the US. Which includes comics, so they are offering subscriptions to DC Comics for

A package arrived yesterday when I was out with a lovely little mini-comic entitled Logjam, The Best Fucking X-Man Ever from MysteriousTransmissions.com.

What if you held a comic con... that wasn't? That's what attendees and guests seem to have discovered at this weekend's Jack O' Con, which described

Dylan Gonzales writes; Beer: Game of Thrones: Take the Black Stout Brewery: Brewery Ommegang Brewery Ommegang has teamed up with HBO to create a line of

Tommy Zimmer wrote from Detroit Fanfare; Ethan Van Sciver quietly entered the doors of the Great Lakes Ballroom at the Adoba Hotel in Dearborn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKxLxFMW93E Nokia very kindly have loaded me a Nokia Lumia 1020 for a month. With a 41 Mp camera. Well, I was going to have

Lewis Campbell writes; I come from an illustration and animation background, graduating with a Masters from the Royal College of Art in 2002. I’ve always

A very simple, classic look here. I like it. Beast (Nicholas Hoult in full furry blue) and Magneto (Michael Fassbender) getting into it and a new suit for

Elizabeth Heyman write from NYCC for Bleeding Cool; Gravel is not at all a new item among the Avatar Press catalog but it is getting a bit of a facelift

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

By Dylan Gonzalez; Beer: Valhalla Red IPA Brewery: Elysian It seems like Elysian Brewery is making beers just for me to review. This week, and perhaps

COMIKET BOUND Talking the girls to Comiket today... Which will also host Six Characters, a one-day pop-up exhibition, conceived by Central Saint Martins

Bill Willingham has issued the following statement on his website. Fables Comes to an End With Issue 150. After more than ten years of publication, and

Happy & excited about this. I'll be teaching a course in reading & writing fantasy at Bard in April: http://t.co/hM0TYU4Cp1 #professorMe — Neil

Next week Dark Horse have some Domo Christmas ornaments for you. As well as Grindhouse and The Star Wars. DC launch the Zero Hour spin-offs with new

IDW launched a Rocketeer/Spirit series, Pulp Friction earlier this year, by Mark Waid and Paul Smith.The first issue came out in July. The second... at

Brendon's Update: Before you get to Rich's story below, I want to include the preface that, according to many good sources, Orson Scott Card won't see a

I am still going through my NYCC notes and this one suddenly jumped out at me. We know that Day Men, the new horror series from Boom! studios, has sold as

Thank you Patrick Willems, and the Afterwards They Will Explode team for this most important of convention matters. And apologies to the intern...

Marvel must have played very nice with Dynamite's Nicky Barrucci for this to happen. But king of the painted variant cover, Alex Ross, is painting a

I understand that James Tynion, recently appointed the new writer on Red Hood And The Outlaws, is to leave the book rather soon. Possibly before his

It's a big book. It's a very big book. But right now at Amazon the Geoff Johns JSA omnibus is half price! down from $125 to $63. With free shipping, it is

Recently Tales Of Wonder.com comics mail order customers started noticing some issues with comics being shipped to them. First delays explained by TOW

WHAT TO DO IN LONDON TONIGHT COMICA PR: WHAT IS A SUPERHERO? with Kieron Gillen, Si Spurrier, Will Brooker, Richard Reynolds & Alex Fitch Tickets:

Misfits Series/Season 5 is two episodes in over here. But, since it's been such a big hit on Hulu in the US, they are moving the timescale up, so the

From the upcoming Comics In Focus: Chris Claremont's X-Men film from Sequart, I thought you might enjoy this little clip for the comics industry in the

Asterix And The Picts was published a week ago, under an extremely severe embargo. But once available, it has sold, and sold very well. One bookstore

Some senior comic book figures are rather happy that the news about DC Comics Editorial moving to Burbank happened when it did. I'm told both the

Gary Gray writes for Bleeding Cool; Last Sunday comic’s academics Chris Murray and Phil Vaughn held their annual Dundee Comics Day for what must be at