Rich Johnston Archives

Ricki Tarr has not lied to us, not in any material way. He has simply done what agents the world over do: he has failed to tell us the whole story.  –

March the 6th is the last day publishers or creators can submit their work for the 2012 Eisner Awards. The tentative categories are best short story, best

VagrantWatch: Kate Beaton puts her story about the loss of her community - and a human life - back online. LengthWatch: The Secret Service from Mark

It's the New York Post so I think we can believe it. Possibly. DC Comics have given them details on the new Captain Marvel, renamed Shazam! so as not to

Dear DC Comics, A couple of years ago, you very kindly sent my daughters a box full of DC merchandise for kids. My very picky five year old daughter Eve

Here are the comics published within the last thirty years that have been burning up the top of the charts and selling over $200. All raw copies, no

Man Of God: The Death of John Morris by Craig Partin and Yvel Guichet out in May from Pinwheel Press - a supernatural horror mystery set over the backdrop

As revealed by the TalkComix people below (around the 8 minute mark) at the London Super Comic Convention, Howard Chaykin, as well as starting work on

As revealed by the TalkComix people below (just below the 5 minute mark) at the London Super Comic Convention, Duncan Fegredo will be drawing an original

Dave Wallace writes for Bleeding Cool; Welcome to back to Jack of All Trades. This week, I'm choosing to run an entire column of reviews spotlighting a

This is Joe Quesada's new Twitter icon. It is labelled Infinite.jpg and shows the sign for Infinity. He tweets; The future of storytelling is ∞ The

That is the first fourteen pages of Double Jumpers, a new book from Dave Dwonch (Space-Time Condominium) and Bill Blankenship (Thunderchickens.... yes,

UPDATE: DC message board poster billee0918 has taken credit for the mysterious posts, after exploiting a loophole to create a new identity, even though

That's all she wrote folks. Once you got passed the web forwarding system embedded on the emails that sent out - that crashed pretty much immediately -

UPDATEx2: And... there goes Friday. UPDATE: Saturday has now sold out, Friday is almost gone. The site is now telling recent signees that they do not have

A number of people are reporting problems getting into the San Diego Badge Sales. It's not, however, a problem with the server. But a malformed link. The

In half an hour ticket sales open for San Diego Comic Con 2012. If you didn't register for a Member ID, I'm sorry but you are out of luck. No begging,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zMMdH8ofwo Patrick Willems does the impossible with a new Afterwards They Will Explode video for Bleeding Cool.. Live

StanWatch: Steve Bissette talks Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Forgive my being blunt: As a corporate shill, Stan has behaved as shills should at all times. As

I met JK Woodward at the London Super Comic Convention last weekend. And once I established that he hadn't done the Fallen Angel cover that featured in

This is the latest in a series of promotional covers created by Boom! to encourage retailers to experiment by ordering large on certain titles, in return

Today, Valiant Entertainment announced a new Harbinger series to join XO Manowar and Bloodshot. You can see a preview below, it's by Joshua Dysart and

It's easy as One Two Three... as well as a preview of Steve Niles and Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein Alive, Westfield Comics also have the first few

Al Ewing, author of Ninjettes for Dynamite, writes about the first issue of the series, taking it down page by page. We have some pages, you may want a

Here's an ad from Midtown Comics from a while ago http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6juw273IT2o&lc And here's the new ad made for Jay And Bob's Secret

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5OSoJS0OrA Grace Randolph says "Wondering how to become a comic book artist? Host Grace Randolph talks to comic book

Here's an interesting comparison. When ordering comic books for Free Comic Book Day, although customers and passers by get the comics for free, the

It's been noted that, despite their massive presence at the likes of San Diego Comic Con, the presence of Radical Comics on the comics stands has been

Tim Hanley gendercrunches for Bleeding Cool. He is our sexual statistical correspondent. December was a fairly average month at DC and Marvel, though DC

We already reported on some of the swag retailers who attend the Chicago Diamond Summit before C2E2 will be getting. Well here are three more to make the