Rich Johnston Archives

I used to start writing Christmas ads for various companies around about April. That's the kind of lead many clients needed. You want a Christmas book at

Aleksander Zograf, Bryan Talbot, Pat Mills, Warren Pleece, Dan Goldman and Dylan Horrocks are a few of the international comics creators contributing to

015 The artificial muscles in the severed robot head of Jack Kirby start shifting around.  For a moment there, he looks like the piercing-eyed Superman of

As part of their Female Force line of comic biographies, which recently swerved from political figures such Hillary Clinton to Oprah Winfrey, Twilight

Congratulations to Jim Lee and Carla Michelle... will the mini-comic book wedding programme become a major collectable? Sadly the man himself has nothing

Last week, Bleeding Cool reported that Diane Nelson had taken over Alan Horn's duties at Warner Bros to oversee DC Comics. And since no one's actually

CLE: Hi, this is Cheryl Lynn Eaton, your Bleeding Cool operative and I'm here with Laura Martin. Laura, how's your DragonCon going so far? LM: It's going

Episode Two: Jimmy Palmiotti. CLE: Hi! This is Cheryl Lynn Eaton, your Bleeding Cool operative, and I'm here with Jimmy Palmiotti. And Jimmy, how's your

When Rich asked me to write this column, I told him (with the greatest of affection, of course) that we should leave the crazy, tattooed girls to Warren

One of the best things about DragonCon is the pop culture festival's Artist Alley! Our Bleeding Cool operative took a moment or two to visit Artist Alley

Bluewater Productions is a comic company best known today for publishing political biographical comics, initially based on IDW's election comics, with the

Okay, so the comic hasn't exactly been coming out to schedule. But Mark Millar and Tony Harris' Image comic about super-powered soldiers fighting in the

Last month, Brendon Connelly of /film and occasionally Bleeding Cool wrote; While there’s no official announcement of US distribution for Terry Gilliam’s

Steve Bissette helps launch the Vermont Monster Guide he illustrated - with pictures of the event at the Centre Of Cartoon Studies here. The next events

I know we already ran a Noel Clarke story this morning, but this poster suddenly makes me want to do another. Reign of Death is a sci-fi pulp noir

Everyone knows that Saturdays are for cartoons! And at DragonCon, Saturday was for one very special cartoon in particular—The Venture Bros. And so, our

Tanker of the Comic Bloc forums first posted this possible swipe file... Brian Bolland on The Killing Joke Frank Quitely's cover for Batman And Robin #3,

I'm getting repeated reports of more redundancies at McFarlane Toys. I'm told that a number of people have gone from accounting, including the department

Armageddon Now: The Beast, written by Phil Hotsenpillar, drawn by Rob Liefeld and painted by Mike Caprotti will debut, not in a comic store, not even at a

The CerebusTV.com countdown clock continues to tick away the numbers until 10pm on the 22nd October. And we're starting to get some kind of idea of what

Harker is the upcoming graphic novel sequel to Dracula by Tony Lee, Neil Van Antwerpen and Peter-David Douglas. It has the slightly spurious honour of

Olive Branch is Diamond Comics Distribution's largest warehouse. Six hundred thousand square feet in size, it was set up last year with state-of-the-art

It has come to be a tradition in Atlanta, Georgia. As summer rolls into fall, DragonCon rolls into town. And the good ol' dragon has grown to monstrous

Who wears the Watchmen? Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon's superhero opus comes to Hallowe'en this year. But the question is, will anyone do a full on Doctor

Entertainment Weekly report, amid their Marvel/Disney coverage, that "Pixar is said to already be eyeballing an Ant-Man movie." Marvel Studios has had an

Jon Ronson is one of the UK's leading social and political satirists. His first novel Them: Adventures With Extremists saw him stalking conspiracy

During San Diego I reported that Marvel had announced they had bought the Marvelman character from original creator Mick Anglo. Which meant they had the

One of the pragmatic oddities of the comic book artist's income stream is the ability to sell original art. Despite often featuring characters that are

One of the minor aspects of the Marvel/Disney announcement, is what happens with Kingdom Comics, the graphic novel publishing imprint from Disney. The

Comic book artist Josh Adams talks about the world he finds himself in – the industry, the family, the personality traits… I'd like to thank everyone for