Rich Johnston Archives

Marc Toberoff, who has represented both the estates of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster against DC Comics/Warner Bros and Jack Kirby against Marvel/Disney,

George Gladir passed away on Wednesday evening, aged 87. Co-creator of Sabrina The Teenage Witch, he wrote decades worth of stories for Archie Comics,

Larry Doherty of Larry's Comics in New England  is selling a million comics for fifty cents each. This is what they look like. I wonder if they have any

The creation of Batman by Bob Kane and Bill Finger, saw this sketch by Leonardo DaVinci inspire the Batwings of his costume. Batman movie writer David

by Chris Thompson It’s one of the saddest and most poignant episodes so far as Taylor & I say farewell to Joe Keatinge, Ross Campbell & Owen

Next week, Dark Horse kicks off the first, or the zeroeth, issue of X, and there are Buffy and Star Wars alerts all round. Batgirl #19 arrives in its own

The 8-Bit variant cover to A.I #1 by Matthew Waite... The retailer summit edition of Thanos Rising #1, meant to be exclusive to the pre-C2E2 gathering,

Anyone got a clue? UPDATE: Back from the pub. Obviously...

Thanks to our New Zealander friends, where it is already tomorrow, we can tell that Friday's Marvel sale on ComiXology will be on X-Men Vol 3 #1-33. If

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Bc0QEecAk Toni Darling gives us a look through the week in Bleeding Cool and beyond. But in video form. And with an

2000AD is a boys comic. That's how it was created, that's how it was marketed, that's how it was sold in to newsagents. But even for a boys comic, there

East Of West may take the two top spots of the Advance reorder charts for the past week, but it's Jupiter's Legacy that dominates, with each cover ordered

Tim Pilcher, ex-Vertigo Comics editor, is serialising the first chapter of his new book Comic Book Babylon: A Cautionary Tale of Sex, Drugs & Comics

We mentioned this might be a thing a couple of weeks ago. Polarity #1 from Boom!, out today, has sold through its 20% overprint on retailer orders, and

Mark McKenna writes; What is Combat Jacks? In military jargon it’s a bit different then what I intended it to be… One October night two years ago I was

See designs by Dan Norton, known for work on DC and Widlstorm comics as well as the Thundercats cartoon.

From DC Comics' email newsletter today, something new. That may relate to the recent Warners/Siegel court case. "By Special Arrangement with the Jerry

David Blake Lucarelli writes; Last night in the Nerdmelt Showroom at Meltdown Comics The Crawford Family Forum presented a forum entitled “Comics, DIY,

If you have children of a certain age and like in the UK, you will know Big Barn Farm on CBeebies very well.

Jesse James writes; Usually I'm the last person in the con scene to get around to writing my review. I spend about 3 to 4 days looking at the social media

As a result of legal threats from DC Comics, and their wish to avoid such legal process, Boom! have renamed Clive Barker's New Genesis to Clive Barker's

From the new Spawn out today, current host Jim Downing being approached by representatives of the Catholic Church. Nothing papal yet, but it's only a

Is it me, or has Wolverine been hanging around too much with Psylocke of late? Is that a Malcolm Tucker quote he's partially using in today's All New

They've published Superior Spider-Man They've published Superior And now they are publishing Superior Carnage. Part of Superior Spider-Month. Or Superior

Bleeding Cool’s  Kickstarter Correspondent, Shawn Demumbrum has lead three Kickstarter campaigns to launch comic books, two successfully funded and one

It was one of those weird rumours I'd heard from a recent comic convention but chose not to pass on. Because it was nonsense. That the new Batwing,

Joshua Stone writes; Frank Cho self moderated his spotlight and really just let the audience ask questions the whole time. The first question was whether

One of the greatest Deadpool stories was by Joe Kelly and Pete Woods, in which the character went back in time and took the place of Spider-Man in an

From Detective Comics #19 (or #900 depending on your point of view) we see the full fallour of the devasting effects of the Death Of The Family crossover.

Evic Oropilla writes; The Valiant 2013: Harbinger Wars and Beyond panel consisted of Hunter Gorinson, Dinesh Shamdasani, James Asmus, Joshua Dysart, David