Rich Johnston Archives

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 &

CorkWatch: The Irish town of Cork gets its own graphic novel. The Ghost of Shandon is Alan's first book, all 64 pages and 100 illustrations of it. “It’s

The revelation that in the Republican South Carolina poll ahead of the caucus debate that Stephen Colbert is ahead of the current third runner John

Mark Millar has announced, through Comic Book Resources, the name, concept and cover art for his new creator owned series from Image with Frank Quitely,

Scotland is the home of many of Britain's most prestigious comics, specifically The Beano and The Dandy, both running for almost eighty years. But a more

Seriously, I'm sat in the pub and I just fancy getting all the people here to stand round in a circle going "Fight! Fight! Fight!" until teacher breaks us

Vertigo will preview their four new books for March in a comic shipping in February. The Vertigo 2012 Preview Book will be send, for free, to retailers

Starting in Dark Horse Presents #8, out the first week in February, a surprise listing! Almost as much a surprise to me! The Many Murders Of Miss

It was an apocryphal tale, one that Tom DeFalco has denied. But at the time it was rather popular. That the editor-in-chief of Marvel had declared that

From San Francisco comic store Isotope and the Noise Pop Music Fest, comes Ben Templesmith drawing a page from Fell, his Image comic with Warren Ellis, on

I've given the thirteen-or-so thoughts of the week's DC Comics a bit of a break for now. It was doing my head in, and I was reading too many comics that I

I have been backwards about coming forwards about my admiration for Jason Aaron and Chris Bachalo's work on the new Wolverine And The X-Men series. Set in

Demon Knights is one of the ten or so New 52 comics that I eagerly read by choice every month. But there's been something nagging at the back of my head,

Bleeding Cool has been following the theory that Marcus Johnson, mysterious star of Battle Scars, is Nick Fury's son, and potentially creating a new black

Aaron brings back Tri-Force Mike this week, as the staff of A Comic Shop in Florida look through today's comic books and makes their recommendations. Do

This article originally appeared on Bleeding Cool on December 7th, 2011. So, I've read a copy of Scarlet Spider #1, the new title spinning out of