Rich Johnston Archives

TheManWatch: Stan Lee and Gene Simmons will be at Sundance today doing a one hour live video chat, and you can catch it all -- and ask questions -- right

The writer of Chew, John Layman, and the artist in Dicks, John McCrea are working together on a new version of Mars Attacks from IDW, coming out in June.

We mentioned the Quentin Blake/Roald Dahl stamps from Royal Mail this morning, but also in the way are these stamps celebrating 75 years of British

Another wonderful short film by Patrick Willems aimed directly into this week's geek zeitgeist, from Patrick Willems as part of his Afterwards They Will

Kate Kotler and Elliot Serano write for Bleeding Cool Welcome back to our regularly scheduled geeky dating program... uh, column. We apologize for the

Of late there has been a bit of a battle of words over market share, sales figures, chart positions and the like. DC execs state that they don't care

Archie Comics has been through a number of changes of late. By launching a Riverdale series with a gay male lead, and putting a same sex wedding on the

Diane Nelson and other DC and Warners executives have launched a new charitable initiative, using the imagery of the Justice League to aid the hunger

At the weekend, Bleeding Cool showed you thumbnail cover images of all the Marvel comics for April. Or so we thought. See, Marvel are issuing a bunch of

This would have been the week of the DC logo at Bleeding Cool. But then the Russians all started tuning into our discussion of the ending of the second

At the weekend, Bleeding Cool discovered that Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman and Image Comics founder Rob Liefeld's collaborative book for Image, The

On Thursday and Friday, Bleeding Cool gave you free copies of Kirby Genesis #0, #1 and #2 by Kurt Busiek, Alex Ross and Jack Herbert. Today, we have the

I’m travelling, so in lieu of a regular column, here is the treatment for a movie adaptation of Arthur Machen’s late 19th Century horror novel THE GREAT

Tim Hanley writes for Bleeding Cool. November was a solid month for both publishers, and Marvel had the higher percentage of female creators for only the

  Sisner Award winning Lynda Barry is to be the University of Wisconsin-Madison's spring artist in residence with the Arts Institute and Department

It gets sweaty inside Iron Man's armour. Thor's jockstrap reeks. I just don't ask what happens to the Hulk's glands when he gets angry. From Jads

StampWatch: Quentin Blake illustrates Royal Mail Roald Dahl stamps... LostPropertyWatch: Neil Gaiman left his Mac Air on a plane. Anyone seen it? No jokes

    It's been pointed out that Portland may have the greatest number of cartoonists and comic book creators per capita than anywhere else. So

Potato Comics is publishing Xeric winning small press title Freedom by Seamus Heffernan in April, now distributed by Diamond Comic Distribution. Set

Say you have an awesome idea for a comic book... where do you begin? The knee jerk reaction would be to start drawing... or writing a story. Stop! Ask

Again, much thanks to Midtown's database for this one. You've already seen Marvel's April 2012 solicitations - albeit with the credits of March. Well, now

As the comics industry comes to grips with what will be coming to stores in April and May, there is one book likely to smash sales record that's not from

BuffetWatch: A Japanese biography of Warren Buffet has now been translated into English. PastaWatch: Tintin, now in pasta form. TrialWatch: Tunisian

Five days ago, Rob Liefeld tweeted; Infinite fans -Update I tried a new finisher/inker over 14 pages of issue #5. I loved em but split decision at

So I'm getting my six year old daughter a subscription to a new comic book she's been reading. Not by Marvel, DC, Archie, not from the staples of DC

Okay, "needs" is a strong word. As Paul Duffield says, he can work one day a week on his new graphic novel, and it may take years. But if he can raise

Coming from Bongo in April, is the Simpsons Comic spinoff Milhouse, Bart Simpson's Pal, written by Gail Simone and Pat McGrealm and drawn by Bob Smitjh,

Paul W Franklin writes for Bleeding Cool about the life of an Extra. Recently I've been pootling around the East coast of Australia, in a rather carefree

Sam Humphries is well known to Bleeding Cool readers. He's scored monster self distribution hits with Our Love Is Real and Sacrifice. But before writing

PiracyWatch: Megaupload is shut down by the US - which shows that authorities don't need SOPA or PIPA to target internet piracy. Now all they have to do