Rich Johnston Archives

Le Cowabunga, dude. This is how a French comic book publisher promotes their new oversized Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle graphic novel. By delivering it in

This is the cover to Spawn #216, by Todd McFarlane. But not this Todd McFarlane. This is the Todd McFarlane back in the early nineties. Originally planned

Last Saturday, Bleeding Cool was to first to talk about the solicitation of Sam Humphries and Jerry Gaylor's Fanboys Vs Zombies, a comic about a zombie

Though there's really not much of an off-season anymore, it was one of the first major con weekends of the year with interesting news tidbits coming

For what could have been... courtesy of Richard Starkings. "Might have been is a dream, was is achievement, wishing you lots of was..."

Little Bleeder Patrick Stephens, reporting from the floor of Wizard World New Orleans this past weekend reports straight from the horse's mouth, George

A gallery of photographs taken in and around the 39th Angoulême Comic Art Festival, held this weekend in France. And a little taste shared with you,

Portland? No. Seattle? No. Manhattan? No. San Diego? No. The greatest concentration of people reading comics on the Nook is in Brookyln. Analysis

  Frank Cho has put his yet-to-be-released-and-frankly-rather-late Image Comics series on ice. Guns & Dinos was to have been released late last

I know, I know, how provincial, a US-based website goes and puts the US comic creator who won the jury prize at Angoulême in the headline. Guilty as

Attending the largest comic book convention in the world, Angoulême in France, Brian Azzarello told French website MDCU that he is working on a new book

Creator of a large body of amall, intimate works, JC Denis has never had a break out hit, but his work has always been critically well received since he

Xavier Lancel of SCARCE magazine, writes for Bleeding Cool; The Angouleme Festival is so big that have to remember that if you are indeed bringing many

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 reader Kris Shaw is a little ticked about the state of DC Comics Omnibus titles when compared to Marvel Omnibus equivalent. And how sewn

The week after next, Marvel's new Earth Season One original graphic novels begin publication. But rather than being on sale on Wednesday as you might

Being stuck in Blighty, does give me a slight disadvantage when going to comic conventions in America. And this time it seems that there are more

Paul W Franklin writes for Bleeding Cool about the life of an Extra. "It's called War Horse, let's get to the war!" This is what someone called out in the

I remember going to Orbital Comics in London when it first opened ten years ago. I was working in Soho for the ad agency Radioville, and this new comic

It cannot be too firmly stressed that Guy Fawkes was a religious terrorist who tried to blow up the Houses Of Parliament. Just saying. Anyway, the Polish

Darin Wagner writes for Bleeding Cool; This week we got some news about DC Comics’ latest attempt at reviving Captain Marvel. The news got me thinking

Each year at Angouleme, l’Association des Critiques de Bande-Dessinée selects their own Critics Prize for the comic creator most deserving, in a rather

"It might be awkward for two white people to talk about this, but they're written by two white people!" Grace Randolph and Alan Kistler sit down at

Bleeding Cool posted a little snippet of this back in August But today, DC Comics went all official. By announcing that this September, they will publish

DC Comics have done it. Devils Due have done it. Oni Press have done it. And now it's time for Bongo Comics of The Simpsons, Futurama and Sergio Aragones

Arthur Du Pins' second volume of Zombillenium from Dupuis, published in August, has won the Jeunesse Award, for younger readers, at the world's largest

The French documentary Sex In The Comix presented by Molly Crapabble will preview tonight at 8pm at Angoulême, the largest comic convention in the world,

It looks like it's back up. Deadpool editor Jordan D White's recording of Daniel Way's lyrics from Deadpool #49.1 by way of a few popular modern tunes and

Last year, there was a kind of proto-Extreme relaunch with Mark Poulton and Owen Gieni recreating the Rob Liefeld character Avengelyne for Image Comics.

It's getting closer and closer to Free Comic Book Day ... in that there's only three and a bit months to go.  But it's a lot closer to the point when