Rich Johnston Archives

On the left is the comic panel by Tony Abruzzo, located by David Barsalou. And on the right is Sleeping Girl by Roy Lichtenstein. Guess which one has just

Jim Lee and Scott Williams are drawing a 1:200 variant cover for all the first issues of Before Watchmen. Here is their black and white work for the cover

On Saturday from 6pm, Nick Abadzis will be signing at Gosh Comics in London for the launch of the collection of his seminal graphic novel, Hugo Tate.

ClownWatch: Where the Avengers came from. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lorDIKuZroU ValiantWatch: Archer And Armstrong #1 gets a cover and preview.

This is my favourite John Dokes story; Almost twenty years ago, Dokes used to work for the Marvel Direct Sales department under Matt Ragone. At the Marvel

Recent, IDW published a new Popeye comic book. The first in quite a while. And it sold. Sold well. And kept on selling. And I've got the numbers. The

There now follows some randomish, vaguely connected thoughts about Before Watchmen. "Did Alan Moore get screwed on his contract? Of course. Lots of people

There's been a lot happening in Avengers Vs X-Men this week. Possibly more than happened in the actual comic. Some of it gets a little confusing as well.

Brandon Thomas writes about his fourth issue of Volron from Dynamite; This is my favorite issue of the series thus far, and that’s because everything

For all that Avengers Vs X-Men has been hyped, it's offered very little in the way of A versus X. The surrender of the X-Men to the Avengers seemed to

If you have the We3-related password from the mailing list, you can book tickets for MorrisonCon right now. For $767. For one night. For one. For one two

Bleeding Cool has been following ShiftyLook, the publisher created by Namco Bandai, to recreate arcade classics as webcomics, with an eye to revitalising

Si Spurrier’s instructions: You know the score, of course. In the Byronic tradition: blood-supping aristocratic wronguns, scantily-clad virgins,

We knew that Lobo would return to the DC Universe in Deathstroke #9, the first of three monthly titles plotted by Rob Liefeld (and also drawn by him). But

It cannot have escaped many people's notice that The Walking Dead is a popular comic book. So popular that retailers cannot keep up with its increase in

Avatar Press owns Bleeding Cool. Okay now that's out of the way. They've got three books out today, Crossed Badlands, Ferals and Dan The Unharmable. All

Here's an extended look at Dynamite's new issue of Dark Shadows, handily coincidental with the release of a certain film, and other less-extended previews

WatchWatch: Kotaku runs the cover to Minutemen #3. Showing something unfortunate happening with one Silhouette... DieselSweetieWatch: The Economist gets

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll2bgfih9bU Aaron and Tony of A Comic Shop in Florida, is still in Free Comic Book Day celebration. Aaron writes; Free

Doug Jones is an actor. You know his work intimately. Yet many will not know his face. He played Abe Sapien in the Hellboy movies. He played both the Faun

You have to feel sorry for Lalit Kumar Sharma. An Indian comic book creator, he has a number of prestigious comic book works to his name. But he's also a

Dr Manolis Vamvounis runs through last week's comics for Bleeding Cool. It’s MULTIVERSE WEEK at DC, with not one, not two, but THREE stories set in

Bryan Hitch, when he's not drawing his hit Image series America's Got Powers, or doing variant covers for DC (with a possible project for them in the near

This is how the Spider-Man Custoimised Retailer Variant will look... possibly without the big Marvel watermark over it. This is, naturally, for Third Eye

Hachette have released their Marvel catalogue from September to December, listing a number of new books, and details on projects Marvel is yet to

It's basically a foregone conclusion now. Graphic.Ly has left the building as far as monthly comic downloads go. Longbox is in the long grass. And Comics+

Welcome to Keep Your Pants On - The Podcast! After the (frankly) shocking success at C2E2 of Keep Your Pants On - The Panel, Elliott and Kate have teamed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlbbLFgiVQk Hip hop artist Richie Branson writes; Back in the day, Toonami was one of the biggest influences on my anime

Making its way round the net... Gotta love Mullet Hawkeye. And Chachi Iron Man. And Inbetweener Simon Captain America.

From the Free Comic Book Day DC Comic, The New 52, the Black Room... but what's in it? Here's ten to start you off. Clicky for biggy. 1. The Spear Of