Rich Johnston Archives

Is this Moonstone and Phantom all over again? Until yesterday Ardden Entertainment believed that they had the Flash Gordon licence for comic books. Then

So, we've covered getting your comic an endorsement, the importance of getting the right logo and I've also looked at the fundamentals of writing and

Founded in 1990 by Dez Skinn, and originally distributed through comic shops for free, Comics International was the UK equivalent of Wizard though it bore

CapWatch: Hayley Atwell confirms that Tommy Lee Jones will be in the Captain America movie. Thanks Hayley! CubicleWatch: Pajiba report that Ken Kwapis

Platinum Studios has been accused of burning and burning investment cash over the last couple of decades - with occasional skirmishes, scams, missed

Clifford Meth's  has a new anthology out from Aardwolf Press, The Whorehouse Madrigals, under the punk pseudonym Hank Magitz, with illustrations from Mike

Blimey, it seems an age since we ran one of these. Anyway, here's a preview of the new issue of Warren Ellis' Wolfskin, out from Avatar today in the

Looks like this was the gameplan for quite some time. Bleeding Cool reported recently on the Dynamite aquisition and Glee-like cover for The Phantom.

Tim Buckley of CTRL-Alt-DEL has responded to Swipe File allegations. He writes; As I'm sure you'll notice, Abby's clothing has changed. When drawing new

In the spirit of a certain hands-on Blackest Night cover, here comes John Constantine on the cover of Hellblazer #267. Now, is that a line of lights

Tim Pilcher writes for Bleeding Cool: Last night I went and saw Dan Clowes and Chris Ware in conversation with Paul Gravett at the Brighton Dome. The trio

A relatively-small British DVD company is putting out something very special indeed. The movie adaptation of Astro Boy's Osamu Tezuka's Garasu no Nō or

There are many ways to break into the comic book industry. Impress an editor with your skills. Work as an intern at a publisher. Network successfully.

While Los Angeles, Anaheim and others are still in the running to snatch Comic Con International from it's decades-long home of the San Diego Convention

In the last few days I've run a number of reports regarding resignations at British graphic novel publisher Insomnia Publishing. Yesterday founder and

Aaron and Mike from A Comic Shop in Florida run down this week's comics. Yes, yes, they get to read them all before you. Live with it! And this week, the

I’ll say two things before I get into the review proper: 1) I could easily double the length of this review by talking about the historical inaccuracies

ESQUIVEL: When last we spoke, I believe I was snarkily taking shots at your enthusiasm for webcomics via Twitter. You insinuated that Modern Print

Yesterday I ran a very unfortunate piece regarding Gene Colan and his wife, Adrienne Colan. It was, quite deliberately unsourced. As a result, despite a

As part of Mumbai's Cyber Safety Week, a comic book on anti-piracy was launched yesterday with government and police support. The comic was produced by

Of the forty-two books from the DC Universe solicited for August, twenty-eight are $2.99, thirteen are $3.99 and one is $4.99 All three Cartoon Network

This April, it is estimated that Diamond Comics Distributors sold 5,567,648 of the top 300 comic books to American comic stores. The previous April, it is

During a medical bar crawl in 2007, Doctor Raymond Adamcik was arrested for groping a woman, while dressed as Captain America, with a burrito down the

StarWatch: When AT-ATs mate at Wondercon 2010... IronWatch: This Iron Man Bearbrick mashup... is it me or is it more like a new Disney/Marvel icon? I

UPDATE: I understand that Insomnia editor Matt Gibbs has now also resigned. Best known to Bleeding Cool readers for his Pond Life columns, Martin Conaghan

Film site Collider has just run a report on writer/director/professional comics fan Armando Iannucci (Day Today, Alan Partridge, The Thick Of It, In The

Some people who've never looked the word up in the dictionary believe that "censorship" can only come from the government or a state body. Not from a

From IDW, a teaser of.. something upcoming in August.  After The Fire. And a quick check of Amazon brings you; And the description; Detective Shane

It's been a pretty depressing day on the Cool, for obvious reasons to anyone who has been reading. But nevertheless it's time for Lying In The Gutters and

So I bought a copy of RED DEAD REDEMPTION just to see what it would be like to play a Western video game. Games in the genre are few and far between, in