Rich Johnston Archives

This has to be one of the strangest comic books I've been involved with. And when that includes biographies of Prince William and a look at Watchmen

I understand that today DC Comics promoted Senior Editor Bobbie Chase to Editorial Director. What that role entails I'm not exactLy sure, but it's a step

Got something in my head called Before Batman. It may go somewhere. But Dustin Nguyen's piece makes me smile. Here comes Chicago... Bleeding Cool will

  Cameron Hatheway writes from Bleeding Cool; As many of you know, the 2012 Eisner Nominees were announced earlier this week. As usual with the awards,

Wired reports that in July, DC Comics are launching a new 52 series, National Comics, a book that will switch the spotlight character every issue. The

Scott Dunbier of IDW, and ex of Wildstorm, has been having a bit of a tidy. He writes; I feel like an archeologist. Amanda wants to de-clutter, so going

As I watch less and less network television because it’s getting more generic and repetitive, I find myself asking, why so much cop shows? Cop shows and

Well it's taken long enough. But with the third and final volume of Phonogram being announced for later this year, Immaterial Girl, it seems there's been

Alan Moore has become quite the doyen of BBC Radio 4 of late. Chain Reaction, Infinite Monkey Cage, The Today Programme, he seems to pop up two or three

Greg Farrell is a cartoonist who works at the Strand Bookstore in Manhattan, the staff of whom are currently in conflict with management over a new

BoomWatch: Looks like Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning's Hypernaturals series at Boom! is being played out in a rather Marvel-tweaking fashion... BoomWatch2:

It was a rather fun scene from the most recent issue of Amazing Spider-Man. And that's saying something, considering how Dan Slott and Stefano Caselli

Mark Millar has very kindly posted a series of statistics regarding the orders of Supercrooks. In an industry where we usually have to make estimates

Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool It's a good year to be a comics fan in Chicago. In addition to C2E2, Wizard World, a plethora of comic shops and

From Fringe this week; Fauxlivia: You thought this might have something to do with the vigilante case the PD has been working? Agent Lee 1: Maybe Batman's

Taken by Alexander Añé at ECCC for Bleeding Cool, Tim Sale sketching Black Widow.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P6IhDcivwo

Okay, this is a sweet idea. Firebox are offering to make you a very small plastic head modelled on your own features in high detail, that you can then add

  Where did you take Easter service this morning? Wherever you celebrated the day, it probably wasn't in as cool a fashion as the Church Of The Rock

Proof, if more proof were needed. While the front page of the website is a "construction" page, a little URL farming reveals more about what Rick is

Welcome to Starfall City. A new novel for the Kindle for one dollar from Kirby Moore. Hmm, what an interesting name for an author... Starfall City is a

The Walking Dead #1 sells for up to $8000 in 9.9 CGC condition. But what about the original art for the comic? Image published a few thousand of that

Take a random Avengers Vs X-Men image. Put your Apple device over it with the Marvel AR App. Play around with what happens. I wonder what other images out

Bleeding Cool has been running a number of articles on ShiftyLook, the company set up by NAMCO Bandai to turn some of their older games into comic books

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGXj6EH-Res Here's professional stand up comedian John Roy at Meltdown Comics introducing Ed Brubaker... but not before

The Dynamite/Dynamic Forces response to the Edgar Rice Burroughs suit against them over the publication of Joh Carter and Tarzan comics has thrown up some

This is Computo the Comic Link Conqueror speaking. I come for your women. But for now I merely collate comic-related bits and pieces online. One day I

Bleeding Cool rather ragged on a recent Marvel Comics title commissioned to explain banking to students for being, well, awful. In comparison however,

On the Bleeding Cool forums, in response to an ECCC interview with Tony Harris, a number of readers wanted to know why Tony was creating new work for

Over at Broken Frontier, David Hine seems to have done a rather good job at burning his bridges. A familiar smaller press name from the nineties, David

  Last year, James Robinson was meant to write Savage Hawkman with Philip Tan. Instead, Tony S Daniels wrote the book. But the Robinson/Tan team was