Rich Johnston Archives

Michael Rosen has taken his radio show Word Of Mouth to look at the power of the language of comics, with comics theorist and cognitive researcher Neil

Chris Claremont is the comic book writer who helped revitalise the X-Men comics in the seventies and eighties, to the unmatched sales heights they reached

Bleeding Cool pointed out that last week's The Walking Dead #191 would be a thing. We called it the end of the second act of The Walking Dead and the

Anthony Desiato has written, presented and directed a new feature-length documentary My Comic Shop Country, about comic stores across America. He started

The University of South Carolina has received a donation of 180,000 comics and books from a comics collector, Gary Watson, a nurse from Columbus, Ohio. A

The Cartoon Movement has won Belgium's Evens Journalism Prize 2019 from the Evens Foundation. While graphic journalist Takoua Ben Mohamed has received the

Leah Williams has a Writer’s Commentary on Barbarella/Dejah Thoris #3, on sale now from Dynamite. As ever, we are always happy to run comic book creator

I bumped into Glenn Fabry at Portsmouth Comic Con on Sunday. He wasn't a guest, but since it was an hour up the road from his home town of Brighton, he

At Portsmouth Comic Con, I got to meet Jean-Marc Lofficier for the first time. A French author of books about films and television programs, as well as

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. It's a bank holiday week in the UK, so things are a bit

I got the chance to catch up with Liam Sharp yesterday, as he was attending Portsmouth Comic Con for the weekend - and visiting with his parents. He has

I got chatting to Jamie Delano at Portsmouth Comic Con yesterday. Best known for his run on Hellblazer, crafting the character of John Constantine who

We placed David Steward II 44th on last year's Bleeding Cool Top 100 Power List with good reason. Founder of Lion Forge in St. Louis publisher, he is now

Time to read the Amazon tea leaves for Marvel Comics again. Cancelled titles are often still collected in trade paperbacks but their collections are

Legendary comic book writer Steve Englehart, co-creator of everyone from Star-Lord to Mantis to Night Man, worked with the late Marshall Rogers and Terry

Marvel Comics has been teasing a big event for December, that has War Of The Realms, House of X and Powers of X and Absolute Carnage all leading up to it.

Christopher Condon is a filmmaker, whose work includes the film Last Night In Prague. He recently wrote, I have been largely silent of late and for that,

Bleeding Cool has learned at Portsmouth Comic Con, that legendary comic book writer Roy Thomas, writer of the original Avengers: Endgame, co-creator of

I had the pleasure of attending an Independent Voices panel at Portsmouth Comic Con yesterday, heading by A Wave Blue World's Joe Illidge, with Ram V,

In 2018, Stan Lee passed away. But in 2019, he's getting his own brand of coffee. The Stan Lee Foundation and Onyx Coffee Labs are together branding an

Since the events of the Aquaman/Justice League crossover, Drowned Earth, Aquaman has become Amnesiaquaman, living on an island with a bunch of deities in

Cecil C. Castellucci, musician and novelist began writing comic books for DC with The P.L.A.I.N. Janes in 2007, and has followed with Shade The Changing

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Last night, someone somewhere was airing the first

Starburns Industries has a Free Comic Book Day title in comic stores yesterday. Today, as people start to buy up Free Comic Book Day titles for cold, hard

Marvel Comics has announced at the Make Mine Marvel panel at Fan Expo Dallas that artist Patrick Gleason has signed an exclusive agreement with the

Here it is, your old favourite jiggly video, from one side of Portsmouth Comic Con to the other, 2019 edition. I popped down for the Sunday which, I am

You may recall Power Rangers: Shattered Grid, the big comic book event from Boom! Studios last year. The event that had fans crying at WonderCon with

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

Yesterday, the comics were free. Today, retailers are permitted to sell their Free Comic Book Day titles. And already a number are selling for a pretty

A lot of this is down to the word about Afterburn, the new comic coming from Red 5 Comics, being made into a film. In fact, let’s face it, it’s pretty