Rich Johnston Archives

Yesterday lots of people got lots of comics for free. Then some of them put them on eBay. The star is, as expected, the Mouse Guard HC. It has sold for up

MouseWatch: David Petersen reads last year's Mouse Guard Free Comic Book Day story http://vimeo.com/34828777 ChicagoWatch: Neil Gaiman writes; I'm writing

Selling for over $4000, here is the original art for Jim Lee's Free Comic Book Day T-Shirt design; The T-shirts of course... were free! And here's how

Axel Alonso recently confirmed another Infinite Marvel comic for #6 of Avengers Vs X-Men to follow up on the Nova webcomic with AvX #1. He wrote; The

Mark Stafford is a British comic book artist of some repute. I managed to persuade him to draw the cover to my Avengefuls comicsfor Boom, he's been

Here's a few shots, via Twitter, of how Free Comic Book Day has been going down around the world...  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfsrGSj9XdQ It is an impressive volume for no money...

I took Eve and a couple of her classmates to London today for free comics and pizza. I was a very popular daddy today. We stopped off at Orbital, where

I'll be going to Orbital Comics, Forbidden Planet and Gosh Comics for their kids workshop with my eldest daughter Eve and some of her school friends for

The affects of Avengers Vs X-Men seems to have done its trick on the market. After being blocked out of the top ten for months, last month Marvel managed

One gallery, many top artists, all unofficial images of The Avengers. This is Assemble, a new show at Gallery 1988 on Melrose, Los Angeles, open until

It's sold out. It's gone to second print. To talk us through it, David Liss writes for Bleeding Cool; Page One This is all about setting the mood. I

There were about twenty people at the Heroes For Jordan press conference for John Romita Jr's attempt on his own Guinness World Record for continual

Thank you to Diamond Comics for sending me all these Free Comic Book Day comics in advance. I now no longer need to take my children to Free Comic Book

One of the organisers of the San Diego Comic Con told me that, rather than feeling put out by the Trickster pop up bar last year, they were rather

In the book Comics: Between The Panels by Mike Richardson and Steve Duin, they tell a number of comic book industry stories over the decades. Including

Spotted on the London Underground the other day... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MJhqCKyW_A Limited edition Absolut London bottle available at

We suggested last week that we were about to get a Buffy Vs Aliens story from Dark Horse for Free Comic Book Day 2012. An in continuity encounter between

This year's Image Comics Free Comic Book Day volume celebrates the 20th Anniversary of the publisher. And in doing so, previews a bunch of all new comic

It's just like September again. Bleeding Cool was the first to identify the reappearance of the "Strange Woman" from Flashpoint in the New DCU, first in

The new comic from Our Love Is Real's Sam Humphries for Boom! has gone to second print. It's got a second print. And it's still only a dollar. Higher

FCBDWatch: Free Comic Book Day continues to generate enormous amounts of free press at both a local and national level. FinanceWatch: When graphic novels

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF9mnwN_P98 There may be a Real Life Supervillain. There are questions about his behaviour during the May Day protests in

  In the early nineties, I self published a number of comics with Mike Meyer. Seven issues of a comic called Dirtbag, six issues of a comic called

In this weekend's Valiant Free Comic Book Day offering there are plenty of teases as to what is to come in the Valiant Universe. But two pieces stand out

A while ago, when faced with a retailer telling me that Marvel were actively trying to recruit print customers to become digital customers.  I joked that

Dynamite's Free Comic Book Day offering this year is Dinosaurs Vs Aliens, a preview of the upcoming graphic novel by Barry Sonnenfeld, Grant Morison and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpHgBsUi6CM Surely... surely this muct be cheaper than the CGI that Marvel Studios use in the movies? Snap him up, folk,

Garth Ennis writes for Bleeding Cool; Page one Bit of conjecture on the side-effects of depleted uranium ammunition on its users here. I’ve always been

Last year, the PRISM Awards gave their honour for the best portrayal of substance abuse or mental health issues in a comic book to Cry For Justice: Rise