Rich Johnston Archives

UPDATE: It's all true - click here for the full confirmation. The papers are full of it in Britain right now. The Independent: William Hills has 11/8 odds

The pictures on the left are by Jamie Fay, on the right, later paid commissions by Alyssa Wills, who also goes by the usernames Tanriel/Vilania. But look!

Next week sees the release of Alan Moore's Fashion Beast in hardcover and paperback, from Bleeding Cool's publisher's Avatar Press. Based on his unmade

By Victoria Marsden A few months ago, I was thrilled to read that Adrian Tomine was putting out another issue of Optic Nerve, the offbeat mini-comic I had

By Hannah Means-Shannon After a successful inaugural year in 2012, taking over the same space as the previously running Philadelphia Alternative Comic

This is a trailer for a TV show that will announce an actor will be taking a role in a TV show in four months time. Only in Britain.... (literally it

The 1602 series written by Neil Gaiman and drawn by Andy Kubert hits the 99 Cent bins on ComiXology on Monday, as well the various spinoff series and the

By Hannah Means-Shannon IDW Treasury Editions are doing well by Joe Hill. First they released his Terrifyingly Tragic Treasury Edition and now Locke &

Joe Farrar writes; Welcome to Size Matters! A monthly look at the goings on in the world of comics. Specifically, a look at what oversized hardcovers will

Thank you, TMZ. You have justified your existence forever.

Here's an audio ad for Walt Flanagan and Brian Johnson's new comic from Dynamite, The Cryptozoic Man... coming soon from Dynamite.  

When asked "Have you ever thought of doing anything else other than comics?", Prophet, Multiple Warheads and King City creator Brandon Graham told us;

By Nikolai Fomich  I remember Carmine. I met him once, a few years back at Wizard World in Philadelphia. I had bought a used copy of 1992’s The Greatest

Congrats to Los Angeles photographer Aniz Adam Ansari, who has just landed an Associate Editor gig at DC Comics Digital in Burbank. He already messes with

It was one of the first major company crossovers. Now, Unity returns with the current Valiant Entertainment comics, though it appears to be rather

So what did we learn from the Forever Evil #1 preview? A flying/superstrong woman with heels and a cape... and two flying men descending from the sky to

Yesterday, ICV2 published a two part interview with Dan DiDio and Jim Lee. They asked some hard questions, but it seemed more of a questionnaire, only a

Of late, American TV has found much inspiration in the British TV market. Not so much for shows that succeed like The Office, or fail like Skins,

  At San Diego Comic Con, IDW announced a new Little Nemo project, Return To Slumberland by Eric Shanower and Gabriel Rodriguez. But it's not the

In New Avengers, the Illuminati have been struggling with the idea of destroying other Earths in order to save their own. In Infinity #1, it looks like

It was solicited that Neil Gaiman was to co-write Guardians Of The Galaxy #5 with Brian Bendis, specifically that he'd write the words for Angela. That

A preview page of Batman Inc #13 reveals a last minute change from Jason Todd as Wingman on the left, replaced by Dark Ranger on the right in the finished

Every week, reporting from the coalface of the comics industry, which books are retailers trying to up their orders on before they come out, as they see

Tom Strong knows the score. So, today, that's exactly what I did. And here's what I thought. Grant Morrison's Batman comes to an end. Not with a bang, but

From Ten Grand... "CEMETERY CATS, the first illustrated fantasy novel from Joe's Comics, tells the story of Kristabel, a cat whose fourteen-year-old

Frazer Irving first drew Grant Morrison's comics for Seven Soldiers with Klarion, Since then, he's been seen on Batman Inc and the like. And now he's

Nice big massive spoilers for today's Fearless Defenders. Because they've created a rather interesting set up today. From next issue's solicitations, "New

By Hannah Means-Shannon Sitting down to read a new Tom Strong comic is incredibly nostalgic for me, and probably for many readers. Alan Moore’s ABC comics

Diamond Comic Distributors are lining up the five categories for their next Best Practice Awards for retailers. If you are a retailer, get in touch, if

Over in Uncanny Avengers, Uncanny X-Men and All New X-Men, they've been fighting over the use of the word mutant, or M-Word, and on what side individual