Rich Johnston Archives

Photo: Gordon Lee with Melinda Gebbie Gordon Lee, much loved owner and manager of comic store Legends Comics in Georgia, passed away earlier today, after

Kaan Evren Basaran writes; Welcome to out third installment of the Dissecting Previews column where we go through the thousands of items that are

Edel Rodriguez's art from The Village Voice, illustrating an article on Amazing Spider-Man #700 and an interview with Dan Slott. When I was a kid, I liked

2013... the fiftieth anniversary of Doctor Who. The 50th anniversary of The Avengers, X-Men, Metal Men, Doom Patrol, Nick Fury and the Amazing Spider-Man

Mattel and its infamous Matty Collector Club has a new line... He-Man has its Club Eternia collector club. Well this is Club Black Freighter. I am sure

It's a bit blurry. And it hasn't been coloured. But this drawing by Neal Adams of Batman and Wolverine will be on the cover to the programme for the

Courtesy of Midtown Comics here.... I'm presuming they don't deal with copyright law. In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other

  Peavey Electronics is making musical instruments with the Walking Dead art of Charlie Adlard wrapped around in... guitars, straps and picks.

From an interview between Tom Spurgeon and Mark Waid, talking about working as an editor at DC Comics  under executive editor Dick Giordano; I was

Louis Falcetti writes; I like the quiet epics. The stories that explode and dazzle but remain under the radar, even when bearing the greasy fingerprints

Printed ahead to accomodate the retailer original sketch covers, it is likely that this one will sell out fast. The Shadow: Year One written by Matt

Taking another look at the coal face of the comics industry, reorders by retailers for comics through Diamond Comic Distributors that have both been

Cameron Hatheway writes; Now I know what you’re thinking; “Hey that looks a lot like Persepolis!” And I don’t blame you, for that was my initial reaction

Vietnam is struggling with its trade deficit at the moment. Especially when it comes to comics. With less than one percent of comics being sold have any

I'm going to say this comic book was probably underordered. The new Star Wars comic from Dark Horse was published this week. Despite a generous overprint

Brad Guigar writes; When I started doing webcomics in 2000, I was embroiled in what we called the "Print vs Web" debate. Syndicated cartoonists were

Mark Millar writes; You'd be out in the same year as Quitely, Romita, McNiven and another major artist we can't reveal yet (he's still under contract). In

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbHwuOtfC34 Think About The Ink presents; Age of Ultron, Man of Steel from Scott Snyder & Jim Lee, Superior Spider-Man

Next week sees the publication of Bleeding Cool Magazine #2 - officially the best selling magazine in comic shops of 2012. And since there's no Walking

Zenescope are coming to the London Super Comic Con next month. And they are bringing some London exclusive comics with them, with Wonderland #7 committing

Yay! Frazer Irving of Iron Man, Batman And Robin, Shade, Gutsville and Civil Wardrobe is joining Brian Bendis on Uncanny X-Men in April... Of late,

Our impromptu Top Forty-Seven comic sellers chart for December 2012 seems to have been bang on the money, at least for the top ten. We'll be able to check

The Top 500 sales of comics in 2012 from Diamond in North American comic shops were dominated by Marvel and DC, with a few honourable mentions for Image

Thanks to Gotham Spoilers who have done some fine URL farming, here are a number of covers for DC Comics in April. Except each looks like the first half

Recently, The Walking Dead Volume 1 went out of print, which led to a mini-run on the trade paperback, with people paying slightly more for it. Turns out

  Matthew Clark writes; Setting the record straight, over the holidays I received my comps for the last few projects i did at marvel. The Avenging

  Brian Bolland is selling his Silver Age comics collection. Why? He writes; Why? Well, in a few words: You can't take 'em with you. My wife said

Phoenix Jones is the most famous proponent of the Real Life Superhero movement, due to the fact that he actually beats up bad guys on the streets of

Here's a look at the charts for 2012 for comics defined as "manga" sold in comic stores and distrubuted in North America by Diamond Comic Distributors.