Rich Johnston Archives

The first page of The Waking, a New York police homicide procedural comic where the victims of these crimes come back from the dead to hunt their

Emma Viecelli is reworking her Dragon Heir Reborn series from scratch as a webcomic - new art, new script, the lot. And here are three panels to show it

We kick off Thanksgiving Day, 1 am in New York, with an unseen storyboard panel from Chris Weston, used in the movie Book Of Eli.

On this American holiday where people express gratitude and thanks for what they have in life - and comics websites take much of the day off - Bleeding

Page Six One Six, the home to comic book industry blind items. Stories told from bar to bar with the serial numbers shaved off. Haven't done one for these

Denny O'Neil has a long history in the comics industry as both a writer and editor. He's best known for writing Green Lantern/Green Arrow and Batman,

We've all heard about the December 30th skip-week for comics at the end of the year. Because Diamond can't guarantee that all comic shops will receive

Today Blackest Night #5 from DC Comics, ships. And the Blackest Night Green Lantern crossover. And the JLA Blackest Night issue with plastic ring, and the

Weeks after the death of Shel Dorf, Mark Evanier reports that another San Diego Comic Con founding father, Ken Krueger, has died. Evanier remembers one

Amazon Canada has a listing for a new version of Kimota! The Miracleman Companion, in hardcover, fully updated, for next year. The original version of

Just a tiny thing. But enough to inspire Doctor Who fanfic writers the world over. I understand from well-connected-fan-chatter combined with a little

The Twelve was a twelve-issue series from Marvel that took classic Golden Age Marvel superheroes and recast them in the modern day, basically what if a

Five! Five courses! Makes the Michigan State University look pathetic in comparison. Five courses in comics books and graohic novels at the Emily Carr

You think that Chew #1 in your vault is worth a bomb? That your Walking Dead and Deadpool collections will see you through the bad times? Holding onto

Marvel have recently contacted almost all their comic book creators over the last decade or so to tell them about Marvel's "Special Character Policy". The

Kieron Gillen talks about his DJ set at the ThoughtBubble comics convention in Leeds this weekend. During which he predicts; I fear footage of this will

Ten Plugs On A Monday, a new occasional column looking at, well, stuff that's out there that could do with a plug. Worth an explore, certainly. The

When Pádraig Ó Méalóid isn't causing trouble at comic convention committees, he's turned into quite the comic archaelogist. Especially concerning Alan

Okay, so what's been happening on the cool in the last couple of weeks? We've been covering ComICA events such as Eddie Campbell, James Jean and Tara

Okay, there's not even a tenuous comics link here. But Channel 4's Cast Offs starting tomorrow night (and as always, legally downloadable on 4oD

Metro is a graphic novel that was published in Egypt in 2008. Billed as the country's first graphic novel intended for adults, and possibly the first

That’s his name, right? Twilight? (I wish I’d thought of that. It’s really a joke from techie comedian Chris Hardwick. Respect!) So the second movie in

It ran on Friday night as part of BBC's Children In Need marathon. As well as a skit from Merlin and the first three minutes of the Christmas Doctor Who,

Thanks to the Hollywood Reporter we know that despite some of the worst reviews for a movie since, well, no, actually, worse than Transformers: Revenge Of

Older, but none the wiser. And thankfully the internet didn't break in my absence. The New York Daily News has splashed with a piece on Model Life, a

Oh you think you're so hot collecting those Blackest Night promotional rings. Well Gareb Shamus beats you hands down, collecting comic book conventions.

Watchmensch, my Watchmen comic book parody that takes a trip through the tussles between creators and publishers over the last seventy-odd years, is

Yesterday was the day that exhibitors tried to book their hotel rooms for San Diego Comic Con 2010. And prayed they'd get one close to the San Diego Comic

That's the introduction to Alan Moore's new self-published-ish fanzine, Dodgem Logic, in shops now. In fact I'm told that in Alan Moore's home town of

See, I don't know what to think about the internet anymore. Obviously I live my life by what comics tell me to think, don't we all, but this week I'm