Rich Johnston Archives

Big City Comics Studio has one exclusive comic book at San Diego Comic-Con from their Booth #2101. They are publishing Jolly Jane #4 signed with a

Comic book writer Donny Cates has been talking up the upcoming Venom event, Absolute Carnage. And he has a suggestion for those who may be interested in

Skybound will have a lot of focus on them this San Diego Comic-Con, as they have done something rather naughty with The Walking Dead #193. But there will

Bleeding Cool was the first to tell you about the existence of ex-Marvel publisher Bill Jemas‘ new comics-and-other-media publisher Artists, Writers &

  Welcome to the pretty-much-mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. A run around the day before and the day ahead. You can sign up to receive it as an

Mark Weiss of ComicBooks For Kids! writes, At ComicBooks For Kids! we do our best every day to put smiles on the faces of children. We cant impact the

So Sandman is to be a new Netflix TV show. And the Sandman after-market is all of a buzz. Here are some recent sales on eBay to set the level... as people

I always like to run this every year if I can. Gosh Comics is in the centre of London's Soho district, the LGBTQ capital of the UK, the home of polari,

Once upon a time, Oxford had both a Fantastic Store and a Comics Showcase. But those days are long gone. Now Inky Fingers, the only comic shop in Oxford,

There have certainly been Palindrome cartoons. There's a website devoted to them over here. But an entire palindromic comic? That's a new one on me. The

Declaration of interest - I have a strip in the upcoming Soft Wood comedy anthology magazine from Heavy Metal Magazine. It should be out any day now. You

You can tell them by their variant Carnage-splattered logos. Some of them. Marvel has been putting one-page teasers in a variety of comic books to set up

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  We mentioned the other day that there was some very pure comic book speculation around the first appearance of Yelena Belova, the second Black

Vampirella #1 is coming with its 130,000 copies ordered. Out in a couple of weeks, for San Diego Comic-Con. It also has a trailer... VAMPIRELLA #1 CVR A

Two weeks ago we ran a story about Blastoff Comics of North Hollywood was closing. Well, two weeks is a long time in comic books. Yesterday, they had new

Savage Avengers #1, the launch issue of the new Avengers series that joins Conan, Wolverine, Elektra, Punisher and Venom together by Gerry Duggan and Mike

Matthew Snyder compiles the best-selling ComiXology titles this week, both old and new. And there's one very predictable best-seller, which brings a

Nezt weekend, The Comic Bug in Manhattan Beach, California is to host a table read performance of the unmade Superman movie, Superman Lives, which was

There has been much in the news in recent years of the plight of comic book creator William Messner-Loebs, best known for writing and drawing Journey from

Every now and then on Bleeding Cool, as well as looking at new projects appearing on crowdfunding services like Kickstarter, Patreon, IndieGogo and more,

Michael Moreci has a Writer’s Commentary on Battlestar Galactica: Twilight Command #5, on sale now from Dynamite. He writes, Page 1: For this opening, I

That The Walking Dead has been a consistent top-seller in both comics and collections and its absence will be felt in the comic book industry. But how

This week, we got the news that DC Comics was pulling MAD Magazine off newsstands, turning the magazine into an infrequent reprint legacy brand,

Welcome to Thank FOC It’s Friday, a semi-weekly mailing list, similar to The Daily LITG, but (mostly) every Friday and planned to coincide and cover the

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This week saw the publication of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #95. And while everyone was oohing and ahh-ing at The Walking Dead #193, it went and threw

Sunshine Barbito writes; Have you ever wished you were someone other than yourself? Ever planned your alternate-life-future in your head all afternoon,

London's Cartoon Museum reopened in its new location this week. On Wells Street in Fitzrovia, the other side of Oxford Street to Gosh Comics, with a handy

A Bleeding Cool reader writes in to comment, regarding Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston's Black Hammer series-of-series, currently published by Dark Horse