Rich Johnston Archives

In the recent Astonishing X-Men/Spider-Man Sketchbook giveaway thing from Marvel, Phil Jiminez talks about working on the series at length, and also shows

019 MEANWHILE, IN THE FEVERPITCH WANKPIT OF PHILIP K DICK'S ARTIFICIAL CONSCIOUSNESS NESTED INSIDE THE ROBOT HEAD OF JACK KIRBY: someone in America is

The banning of uber-fan Pádraig Ó Méalóid from Irish sci-fi con Octocon, reported in yesterday's Bleeding Cool has been developing. In the responses to

Now isn't that spiffy? You can see the full reveal here. The DW shortening of the logo makes for a Tardis-replacement motif and it's a terribly futuristic

Pádraig Ó Méalóid is what one might call an uber-fan. Involved in the comics and sci-fi community, running cons, writing commentary, he's been notable for

It was only a month ago that John Goldwater at Archie announced a signing deal with agency CAA to represent the characters, currently enjoying a media

Over the last few days, Llandaff Village Green in Wales has been transformed into "Leadworth", a nineties English village, for the teh first episode of

The word from freelancers at Long Beach Comic Con this weekend is that DC Comics are going to be making the great trek from East Coast to West Coast on a

This is Lying In The Gutters, the Monday runaround of the week on Bleeding Cool with one or new bits to boot. To sign up to the Lying In The Gutters

Grant Morrison has moved Hollywood representation from CAA to ICM. I wish I knew the significance of this, but Morrison does have a number of screenplay

Alan Moore's first published work was in fanzines, such as the oft-sought after Embryo series he wrote and edited back in 1970. When he worked for Marvel

While everyone who follows comics and movies has been paying attention to Disney buying Marvel in the last few weeks, I noticed a tidbit that no one has

Family Fortunes is a British family gameshow based on the US show, Family Feud, in which competing families have to test whether their own opinions on a

Long Beach, Mid Ohio and Birmingham. What's the word coming out of them? Long Beach - Rob Liefeld: I am having the most awesome Birthday! My wife

Back in the day, the BBC wasn't as precious with its copyrights as it is now, which is why Terry Nation, writer of the second Doctor Who story The Daleks,

The Hero Initiative, looking after comic creators who have fallen on hard times, has commissioned a series of original art covers for Wolverine: Weapon X

This is an appeal on behalf of Cesar Feliciano. Comic penciller and inker, his biggest Big Two credit was as an inker on Suicide Squad, but his new series

As the countdown to the launch of Cerebus TV gets closer and closer, the details are firming up. Jim Steranko and Dave Sim are working on a jointly owned

Last night, Charlie Brooker's new games review show Gameswipe smashed onto BBC4, following his work on Screenwipe and Newswipe, iconoclastic abuse and

Apparently Long Beach and Los Angeles declared yesterday to be Stan Lee Day while Jeph Loeb read out the official proclamation. And all he had to do was

Comic book artist Josh Adams talks about the world he finds himself in, the industry, the family, the personality traits…. First off, I was to apologize

I did wonder why Com.X, the British comics publisher born out of a design studio, was attending the Long Beach Comic Con. I know they have been trying to

Lee Bermejo has been posting the original pencils from his USA Today-facing Superman strip from Wednesday Comics. And now that the weekly series has come

Wowio, the digital publisher with a massive comic book line has had a problem. The money it used to compensate publishers for each download of their

Ben Novack Jr, heir to the Fontainebleau hotelier fortune, was found murdered, bound and gagged in his Hilton Rye Town hotel room in July. Now it appears

They Keyboard Is My FuckMonkey: Let's roleplay. Work's going terribly. Every sentence you write is a jagged-tipped teaspoon being dragged across the wet

A couple of interesting Marvel solicitation amends. Amongst the many minor notes, we discover that Models Inc #3 will help to justify its $3.99 price with

Back in the nineties, it wasn't uncommon for creator owned comics to bust open the charts, with the emergence of Image and Legend putting out titles

It seems Elmo wasn't enough for one man. The Ricky Gervais/Elmo outtakes  from this November's Sesame Street became a bit of an classic online. "It's

Mark Millar has made no secret that his recent run of works all tie in together somehow, 1985, Fantastic Four, Wolverine and Kick Ass. But how exactly?