Rich Johnston Archives

Gavin Lees talked to Tom Neely for Bleeding Cool; Tom Neely has anchors tattooed on his forearms -- that's how much he loves Popeye. For the past few

Vincent J. Cracchiolo V writes for Bleeding Cool; The Motor City Comic Con in Novi, Michigan held its 23rd convention this weekend, and it continues to be

Marvel have let retailers sell Astonishing X-Men #50 one day early. Featuring Northstar asking for his boyfriend's hand in marriage. Not much of a

Dr Manolis Vamounis writes from Greece on last week's comics. THE AVX UPDATE I’m warming up to the main AVENGERS VERSUS X-MEN series, just as the main

  From Emir Pasanovic, Bleeding Cool's Croatian correspondent; Continuing the tradition of the past couple of years, 7th Makarska Comic Book Festival

Yesterday, Fox News decided to suggest that because DC have plans to reintroduce one of their iconic characters to the New 52 as a gay man, that meant

“One of the major iconic DC characters will reveal that he is gay in a storyline in June” That's the comment DC's Senior VP Publicity Courtney Simmons

Next week, IDW are to publish the first ever Doctor Who crossover, mixing continuities with those of Star Trek: The Next Generation. And the first issue

Right now, I am nursing a cold picked up at Kapow over the weekend. On Wednesday I am getting up at 4am to fly to Phoenix (via Chicago) for the Phoenix

A look through some more interesting comics for August, from some of the more interesting publishers... DRAWN & QUARTERLY CAVE-IN GN (A/CA) Brian

I first wrote about the manga series UNTIL DEATH DO US PART in a column back in 2010. Back then, it was only available in Asia and in pirated English

Tony asks on the TCJ message board, regarding the upcoming collection of the work of Milo Manara by Dark Horse Comics; Is it true that 3 pages have been

Thanks to Fox for this one. Honchos at Superman's comic book home, DC Comics, said this weekend that one of their most identifiable (but as of yet

It seems an age since C2E2. But an interview conducted by CBR with Dan Slott at the show has only just gone online. In which Slott stated that Marvel

With the No Place Like Home crew at Kapow. That was a fun weekend! And now I am sick. Clearly Mark Millar planted a virus to infect me. There can be no

Just as DC Comics is turning the headlines purple with the news at Kapow that a previously established character would be rebooted as a gay person, so

Thanks to Midtown Comics' online store for these. Listings for Avatar, Boom, Boundless, Dynamite and Valiant, the companies that may notbe Premier

Cameron Hatheway writes for Bleeding Cool; I turned 25 yesterday, and spent all afternoon relaxing at a local brewery with my family. As I sipped upon my

So... who wants to be a Marvel editor? Including "Direct Management of at least 2 to 3 titles a month"? "Develop new series ideas and initiate projects,

It must be time for a look at Boom! covers for Adventure Time comics shipping in August. Including all the covers by independent comic and webcomic

SickWatch: Bleeurgh. Head cold picked up from Kapow. Bleeeargh. Flying to Phoenix on Wednesday. Somehow. QuoteWatch: "Squirrel Girl knows where to store

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAUUNCqtd-E Gun. Thanks to WayToBlue.

It's a while since Mark Waid wrote The Avengers. In August, Boom! will be publishing a new Steed And Mrs Peel ongoing comic based on the Avengers TV show,

In July, The Walking Dead Escape: San Diego is a new public obstacle course event, timed for Comic Con and the release of Walking Dead #100. It will take

One of the odder moments at Kapow this weekend (and there were a number) was when Paul Cornell continued his commitment to panel gender parity (you can

Bryan Talbot co-tutors an annual creative writing for graphic novels course every year in the depths of the Shropshire countryside for the Arvon

Today at Kapow, DC announced that they would be taking an existing character and rebooting them as a very prominent gay DC character. I wonder if Kapow

Kieron wanted me to call this article "A Little Whine". I didn't. Anyway, here is the writer of Uncanny X-Men, Kieron Gillen, who has just bought a glass

We ran the news that this existed yesterday, announced at Kapow, a new sci-fi comic book by David Hine and Doug Braithwaite for Image Comics, Storm Dogs,

At Kapow in London, during the Avengers Vs X-Men panel with Kieron Gillen, CB Cebulski and Joe Quesada, they showed off some upcoming Avengers Vs X-Men