Rich Johnston Archives

Super Boba Café is a middle-grade graphic novel series by Nidhi Chanani about Aria who, after a traumatic event at middle school, spends the summer with

Peculiar Woods, is a new middle-grade graphic novel by Wawawiwa comic book creator Andrés J. Colmenares, who currently lives in Colombia.Picked up by

What's The Furthest Place From Here? is the comic by 4 Kids Walk Into A Bank's Matthew Rosenberg and Tyler Boss, going to Final Oeder Cut-Off from Image

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Squid Game is the massive Netflix TV success from South Korea, doing for Korean TV what Lupin did for French TV, and another demonstration of the

Earlier this week, I attended private inaugural Serpentine Film Committee Screening of the short animation, Footsteps on the Wind, at the Serpentine

This is the Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, as compiled by a number of comic stores from their sales on Wednesday and Thursday. It measures what is

Girls Give Me Butterflies is a debut middle-grade graphic novel by Dresden Douglas, pitched as a sapphic Lizzie McGuire, about young Brooke who begins to

Tristan Strong series is a mythology book trilogy series written by Kwame Mbalia about African-American folktales. As the third book is published this

Betty C. Tang is creating a debut middle-grade graphic novel, Parachute Kids, inspired by her own childhood, with three siblings who emigrate from Taiwan

Currently, Britain is in a state of crisis. A combination of a lack of foreign truck drivers courtesy of Brexit, along with petrol suppliers voicing

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The most recent episode of Ted Lasso has had everyone up in arms at Nate. Except for everyone who works as a reporter, who is up in arms at Trent Crimm

Sometimes you have two stories, separated by years, and never join them up. Ike Perlmutter is the Chairman of Marvel, a position he gained after he sold

Kenny Porter, Baldemar Rivas, and Alejandro Sanchez created a short story for Batman: Urban Legends #7 last month, The Batman With No Name. And it has

Everyone Is White On The Internet is a new middle-grade graphic novel by Nadia Shammas and Molly Murakami set in the early 2000s and based on a true

Mark Millar has been promoting the second volume of his work-for-hire Magic Order comic book from Image Comics and Netflix, drawn by Stuart Immonen. It

Joe Grunenwald at Comics Beat asked Brian Bendis, given that he has a Substack newsletter if he had also received a Substack PRO offer. He confirmed that

Right now, there is a gold rush for creator-owned comic books. Something once seen as an anathema in the industru, or a sop to keep certain creators still

Thank FOC It's Saturday -  Planned to coincide and cover the demands of Final Order Cut Off at Diamond Comic Distributors. Lunar Distribution and as of

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The Rocketeer originally published by Pacific Comics was created by writer/artist Dave Stevens in 1982 as a homage to the Saturday matinee serial heroes

Adrian Tomine is a comic book creator best known for the Optic Nerve comic, his New Yorker cartoons, and the graphic novel Diary Of The Long Distance

At the Diamond Retailer Summit this past weekend, IDW was happy to talk up the success of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin, with Kevin Eastman

Black Eyed Peas' performer Taboo and B. Earl are writing a new Marvel eight-part webtoon comic for the Marvel Infinity line, digital-first exclusive to

IDW is to publish Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #125 in January 2022. And, announced at the Diamond Retailer Summit this past weekend, they will be

British people will not be allowed to fly to the USA for New York Comic Con. Banned by Trump, Biden is only lifting the restriction in November. Which

This week saw the release of Amazing Spider-Man #74, Nick Spencer's final issue on a three-year run on the series. Which, as well as giving Peter Parker a

The Diamond Best Practices Awards (BPAs) for comics shops were voted on at last weekend's Diamond Retail Summit, for the categories of  Back Issue

At the Diamond Retailer Summit this past weekend, Dark Horse VP of Marketing Matt Parkinson talked more widely about the upcoming plans with Brian Bendis,