Rich Johnston Archives

Today I spent the day walking around central London with a large sandwich board strapped to my chest persuading people that they really wanted to see the

Directly after this weekend's Baltimore Comic Con, Diamond hold host to a Baltimore Retailer Summit, where retailers can meet with Diamond and invited

Steamcrow is a company that creates odd little characters and sells them on buttons, posters, whatever they can lay their hands on, including the Monster

Bleeding Cool has received a copy of the filed lawsuit against Jim Shooter by Valiant Entertainment, the company currently publishing hardcover

Not only is he now a university lecturer, not only is he creating a line of early 20th century prominent female biocomics, but now Fox is creating a pilot

CB Cebulski and Paris Hilton, courtesy of CB's Twitpic feed. Heidi has details of the event here...

I’d like to welcome everyone back to The History of the Modern Comic Book - a column that (roughly) parallels my class (of the same name) which I’m

Remember, it's not called Wizard World anymore. Not that it ever was. Just the Big Apple Comic Con. I went to one of them before Wizard bought it up and

Division and Rush is Todd Allen and Scott Beaderstadt's new online comic being serialised at Chicago Now, a Chicago Tribune website. Todd has been a

Dragon Ball is the latest graphic novel to be banned from a library, in this case all school libraries in Wicomico County, as the first volume Dragon

The Zuda digital line from DC Comics has confounded critics and proved a success of a number of comic titles, in some case making industry names of a few,

We know the image. Warren Ellis, hunched over his laptop in his local Essex pub, damning the smoking ban and sipping whisky as he taps madly away ripping

The KeyBoard Is My FuckMonkey: You want to work in comics? HAHAHA. But okay, no, that's cool. Very worthy. Fun! And it's not as if you even like paying

What can I say, those Archie people know how to play up publicity. As part of the Archie Wedding saga, it seems that he's not going to marry Veronica

Live in Ontario? Looking for a new home in Brantford? Wanting something with a little geek chic? Well there's this little family home in West Brant that

From an upcoming Bill Sienkiewicz Green Lantern poster. Could this be the shape of things to come? Or the way they were... The original art is for sale

Next year, Peter Bagge is to teach a course at Seattle University on the art of writing graphic novels. Creator of Neat Stuff, Hate, his Hulk strip

Here we are. The final chapter of Dynamite's new Sherlock Holmes series and Holmes is in the dock for a murder that he supposedly didn't commit. But this

I want to talk about three specific scenes in these comics, two published yesterday by Avatar, one by Dynamite, all written by Garth Ennis, and how they

How one guy and his blocked-in car outside a comics shop, got the attention of Steve Niles. And some free comics. A few minutes later the dude was

Dennis 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,

Alan Robert is the bassist for Life Of Agony and the frontsman for Spoiler NYC. He's also got a comic book out from IDW next year, Wire Hangers, an

There's a lot riding on this comic. A brand new comic character, a new creative team made up of comics industry stars, in an industry that rewards the

Two non traditional superhero comic books in one week? But which is best? There's only one way to find out. Fight! Absolution #2 opens with a wonderfully

I've said it before, I'll say it again. There's something so refreshing about a comic book by a celebrity that not only does he write, but he draws as

It's war, but not as we know it. The Buffy clan have gone all unilateralist on their magic stylings in order to hide, only to find themselves found and

As Berke Breathed says in the notes to this book, he didn't have a clue what Bloom County was going to be about. It was a place, he was filling it with

Comic Con International: San Diego runs Thursday to Sunday with a Preview Night on the Wednesday. One observation on the convention floor this year was

Back in the mists of time, Lying In The Gutters ran a story that Rick Olney, of TightLip Entertainment, had not been paying creators of its horror

Avatar are on a roll this week. Crossed, Absolution and now Wormwood. The story of the Anti-Christ who doesn't want to bring down the Apocalypse on our