Rich Johnston Archives

Well that was fortuitous. Kody Chamberlain went on KISW Rock radio station, where he talkmed about his comic book Sweets, a New Orleans detective story

Welcome back Grace Randolph and Alan Kistler together for Think About The Ink's Between The Pages for Bleeding Cool, talking Avengers Vs X-Men - and it's

We've been looking at what Rob Liefeld and Scott Lobdell were saying at the Amazing Arizona Comic Con last weekend over on the left hand side of Bleeding

At the Awesome Arizona Comic Con, Scott Lobdell and Rob Liefeld took to the stage for a rather entertaining hour (with a special guest star in Robert

It wasn't long ago I heard that Chris Powell, manager of Lone Star Comicsand MyComicShop.com was to take a specific senior position in the comic book

Ivory Madison is a singer, writing network creator, comic fan and writer of DC's Huntress: Year One series from 2008. And also, it seems, principle in

"It's Doctor Who meets Harry Potter" And with those golden words, the BBC has signed up to a new Russell T Davies TV show, Aliens Vs Wizards for their

DC  Comics has confirmed the story that crime thriller writer Denise Mina and Batman Noel artist Leonardo Manco will be adapting the Vertigo graphic novel

Dave Elliot has often been afacillitator of other people's talents. Whether by working on Warrior Magazine, creating publisher Atomeka and A1

Published by DC Comics, The Shadow: Blood And Judgement by Howard Chaykin was originally published in the eighties, alongside other revisionist comics

Thanks to Super Podcasto Magnifico for that one. CrossoverWatch: Avenging Spider-Man, Daredevil and Punisher get down and dirty with a new crossover

Last night on The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert announced that... he was setting up an exploratory committee over the possibility of running as the

Marvel are announcing that a bunch of key comics are going to second print. Not that they have necessarily sold out of course, or perhaps not quite yet.

  Colossus Vs The Thing, I can see. Gambit vs Spider-Woman, there's some energy power similarity. But Archangel Vs Daredevil... is that really a fair

I've been hearing recently about a number of Marvel artists with exclusive contracts, who have been asked if they wouldn't mind bringing those contracts

We ran the top ten graphic novel sellers of 2011 a couple of days ago. Well, here is the top 500, distributed by Diamond to North American comic stores.

There are companies doing things other than DC Comics, apparently. In April, Dynamite will be publishing Merciless - The Rise Of Ming #1, the first issue

The Times Herald calls it the world's largest online comic book store Not sure how Mile High Comics would stack up against that, but NewKadia does have a

Darin Wagner writes for Bleeding Cool The title of my column this week (which is something of a follow-up to the one I did last week) comes from a

We know how well the top selling comics of 2011 did. But what about the rest? Here is a look at the top 500 selling comics in 2011 break down. DC

In 1948, Belgian creators, and three of the famed gang of four and creators of the Marcinelle school of comic book art, Morris, Jijé and

I've heard the clamours, I've heard the calls, here is what is shipping to comic stores next Wednesday... Dark Horse CONAN HC VOL 11 ROAD OF KINGS PT 1

Channel 4 News last night interviewed Alan Moore, and took him to meet the Occupy London demonstrators for the first time at St Paul's Cathedral. And he

I've been quite open about saying that Men Of War was one of my favourites of the New 52, even though it was not much loved. I wasn't blown away by the

Batman: Leviathan Strikes collected the final two issues of what would have been the end of Batman Incorporated, before a stretched schedule and the

We knew that Justice Society by James Robinson and Nicola Scott, set in the DC parallel universe Earth Two, was coming. What we didn't know until today

As part of the six new May  books being announced today, DC Comics has also announced six cancellations, all ending on their eighth issues. Men Of War,

Bobbie Chase, Scott Lobdell, Rob Liefeld, all we were waiting for was Bob Harras to hire Howard Mackie and Terry Kavanagh for a nineties Marvel revival at

His Swamp Thing series for DC/Vertigo may have been slaughtered to make way for Brightest Day and then the DC New 52 relaunch. "Swamp Thing with machine

See that's what happens when you go own the pub. Stuff happens. Yesterday in the Marvel Liveblogs, they announced that in April, Captain America &