Rich Johnston Archives

  Graphitti Designs will be setting up at San Diego Comic-Con in two locations, one at their traditionally placed booth and one shoulder to shoulder

Dark Horse Comics will be set up at Booth 2615 at San Diego Comic-Con. How plush will the booth carpet be? Will Mike Richardson tower over all the

Could Marvel make their upcoming Marvel Comics #1000 more like the very successful Action Comics #1000 and Detective Comics #1000 in comic book retailer

In Wednesday's Avengers #20, an Asgardianised Daredevil saw the future. And the future had titles. We also had a look at Marvel Comics Presents and

Richard Sala has been publishing a new horror comics anthology called The Creeps Magazine under the Warrant Publishing Company label that... bears a

If you announce it on Facebook, they will come. I announced that I was selling lots of comic books this weekend, having one hell of a clear out. And they

Spawn #298 is going to a second printing from Image Comics for the issue out this past week. While Road Of Bones #2 from IDW is doing similar, getting a

Wallace Junior/Senior High School in Idaho has banned all copies of The Walking Dead from the school library despite a recommendation of the school's

The Nib is an online daily comics publication focused on political cartoons, graphic journalism, essays and memoir about current affairs. Founded by

Upping the ante on an annual San Diego Comic-Con tradition, IDW Publishing will by running dinner events with two industry legends – Stan Sakai (creator

With all the fuss over Wolverine's Daughter appearing in Marvel Comics Presents #6 - which no one saw coming as the hottest comic book right now, here's a

Amanda Palmer has just released a live album compilation of a concert Amanda staged around the annual TED conference in Vancouver last year. She calls it

Once again, Matthew Snyder braves the digital divide to bring us the best of what's selling on tablets and phones worldwide... Welcome to the ComiXology

Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market. Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale. Where supply and

House Of X #1, the beginning of the Jonathan Hickman remaking and remolding if the X-Men and Marvel mutantkind with Pepe Larraz is up for FOC this

We mentioned a few DC Comics Omnibuses getting page increases - and cost increases to boot. Marvel seems to be going through something similar... no price

Thanks to Eventbrite, Ticketmaster, SDCC Unofficial Blog, The Hollywood Reporter, Facebook, my bulging inbox, and a little Google …. what to do after San

Marvel Comics is to overship the launch issue of the new series Loki #1 by 100%. As well as Invaders #7. Both are in stores on the 17th of July. As a

I mentioned this earlier in the week but it's all coming together now. Graphic novels, comic books, crates, toys, books, loads and loads and loads of

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 e-mail

A lot of sites - including Bleeding Cool - reported that the Doctor Strange series by Mark Waid and Jesus Saiz would come to an end in September with #20.

Often a change 'twixt solicitation and publication, Ch-Ch-Changes catches a few that slip between the cracks ahead of the title's Final Order Cut-Off. The

Bleeding Cool reported that Marvel Comics had scheduled a reprint of 2099 Unlimited #1 as Hulk 2099 #1, part of the many Hulk-themed True Believers $1

David M. Booher's has a Writer's Commentary for Canto #1, published by IDW yesterday. He writes; Page One: Our first glimpse of Arcana. Hot, dry,

We’ll know that JJ Abrams is writing the new Spider-Man #1 comic book being published in September by Marvel Comics, with his son Henry. And that it’s

Close Encounters, a well known and long-running comic store in Bedford, England, suffered a fire last week, believed to be caused by an electrical fault,

More and more comic books going to more and more printings... Little Bird #1 by Darcy Van Poelgeest and Ian Bertram is going to a fourth printing, on July

Marvel Comics Presents #6 is blowing up over the appearance of a certain as-yet-unnamed daughter of Wolverine. But it's not the only strip getting

  DC Comics has been publishing a number of Bronze Age Omnibus collections, collecting comics work from the seventies and early eighties, in a

The Zero Hours 25th Anniversary Omnibus from DC Comics is getting bigger - and more expensive. It was solicited as a 976-page volume for $125. Both