Rich Johnston Archives

So, you want to enter the dangerous world of comic book speculating. Buying a comic from a retailer for twice what he paid for in the hope that he'll want

Harry Gilliam, son of Terry Gilliam, is having his first gallery display of his cartoon artwork at Orbital Comics in London from tonight. Examples can be

On the Thursday and Friday the end of the month, Alan Moore will be perfoming with Andrew Broder and DoseOne in their Moore-created identies of Crook And

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool reported on a new UK comics anthology from Bosnian publishers PrintMedia, based on their currently-successful Strip Magazin.

Do you think you know what a Disney Store is? Jumbled up stacks of Cars toys, a dump bin of Ratatouille DVDs, some frankly disturbing Disney princess

Tim Minchin has just given Britain our very own "I'm F-cking Matt Damon". Last night, on one of Jonathan Ross' finalFriday night shows for the BBC, he

I understand that the three burlesque dancers who appeared both at the launch night for Dodgem Logic, and then on the covers of issue 2, have all picked

CostumeWatch: As PartyCity.com take orders for costumes based on Tyrese Gibson's Mayhem comic, giving away autographed comics with the first 100 sold the

I believe that Dave McKean's Cages is one of the greatest contributions to the comic book medium. But it's been a long and hard struggle. Originally

I have to say, that's a very opportune title for a geek-aimed book to come out this week. Suck It Wonder Woman! The Misadventures Of A Hollywood Geek by

I have a very soft spot for Chew. Not only is it a very fun comic, but Bleeding Cool did its bit letting people know about it. And now second trade

A number of Zuda creators who found their titles untimely ripped from the digital schedules without warning have been searching for a new home. Zuda was

British comics industry mainstay John Freeman is to edit a new British adult-aimed comic anthology for the news stand. And it has nothing at all to do

Last year, Diamond Comics Distribution accidentlly released certain solicitation information for upcoming titles early - that basically robbed Marvel of a

Ken Quattro has unnearthed a remarkable document, the court transcript of the Will Eisner testimony in case between Detective Comics, owners of Superman

Seriously, compare and contrast...

Creators: Matt Fraction, Carmine Di Giandomenico and Matt Wilson. Cost: Well that's the thing isn't it? $4.99 print US, around £3.65 print UK. Then $5.97

The fanboys may have attacked the new Wonder Woman costume for not showing enough skin. The fashionistas may have despaired at the nineties-style leather

SpideyWatch: Okay, okay, when I asked if the new Spider-Man was Tintin, I should have instead asked if the new Spider-Man was Garfield. Easy mistake to

Twitter has just gone very wrong. Amongst Zuda creators. Matthew Petz: Fuck. Well I'm devastated. Numb. Kevin Colden: Oh my. Brock Heasley: Well, I just

Mark Millar has announced that the first five short stories submitted by newcomers to CLiNT magazine have been chosen. They are; Emergency Pit-Stop by

Apparently I'm not the only one who saw a certain thematic similarity between the cover to American Vampire #4 from Vertigo... And a certain much

The new Wizard magazine (#228) guest edited by Mark Millar, naturally has a number of Mark Millar-related features in it. Sadly nothing I could find from

 Cost? $3.99 Shot? One Creators? Victor Gischler and Giuseppe Camuncoli. Though this all came from an original idea from David Gabriel, Senior Vice

A variant cover for the new edited-by-Mark-Millar issue of Wizard reveals the first image of Mark Millar and Leinil Yu's upcoming series, Superior. As

BoatWatch: Online publisher Wowio is hosting a cruise for San Diego, from 7pm till midnight, July 23rd with music from Knights Of Monte Carlo. You want to

On the left hand side ladies and gentlemen, Joe Quesada's variant cover for Amazing Spider-Man 638 reinterpreting the classic Spider-Man No More

You can't say we didn't warn you. When Bleeding Cool broke the existence of this book I said it was going to be a bit paradigm-shifting for Marvel. The

There's such a fuss about the new look Wonder Woman. Well issue 600, doing the old Marvel regathering of issues tricl, has a lot more from that from all

Alex Ronald is a former 2000AD artist best known for his work on the Missionary Man series. But of late, little has been heard of him in the comics