Rich Johnston Archives

There we are. Brendon and me, on the British Airways flight to Los Angeles. Don't I look patriotic? Doesn't Brendon look like a Tim Burton character?

Art by Paul Pelletier, a commission requested at a Heroes' Haven event... I'm not here. Right now, I am packing. Packing to fly out to San Diego tomorrow

Stop them and say hello… especially if you have a story to share! Rich Johnston Founder of Bleeding Cool and the face of the website Please don't hit it He'll be running around the show like a blue arsed fly as always, hopped up on a mixture of caffeine, peanuts and bananas, the San Diego staple[...]

Thanks to Image Comics for the very basics of marketing there. Someting to do with their San Diego Sunday panel apparently. This time next week, I will be

Bleeding Cool's Will Romine is now a meme. We're terribly proud. Two weeks to San Diego... two weeks to Walking Dead #100.  This week was a little low on

Bat Dad by Andy Shango What a wonderfully weird week. Traffic was way up as DC and Marvel rumour for their late 2012 and early 2013 plans started to leak

From Cake Wrecks This was the week in which DC Comics finally got round to mentioning that they were running all Zero issues in September. After a number

The first sale of the day at Wonderworld Comics   A fine looking display at A Comic Book Shop   Nicely labelled at Austin Books A fine display

Actually, the preview issue of Bleeding Cool Magazine #0 should be available from more than just these folks below. But these are the stores that have

It's probably going to be a busy week in comics. As I just mentioned, Bleeding Cool Magazine #0 hits comic stores, a preview of the kind of thing you

This was the week in which ComiXology got hacked... and ComiXology hacked right back again. When the mainstream media caught up with the existence of gay

According to some trolls, you won't be able to give this magazine away. Well, some retailers have more confidence. HeavyInk.com is an online retailer who

As you read this, I will be flying from Phoenix, Arizona to Chicago and then on to London, where I'm bringing both my girls candy and comics. If they read

With the No Place Like Home crew at Kapow. That was a fun weekend! And now I am sick. Clearly Mark Millar planted a virus to infect me. There can be no

Bleeding Cool Magazine Article By Rich Johnston There's nothing a comic book professional likes to do in a New York sports bar more than gossip About editors, publishers, writers, pencillers and artists And when they've finished, come home and tweet about how much they hate comic book gossip Then send me an e-mail. You can find the[...]

Thanks to 4chan via Reddit... So it seems like the USA went to see The Avengers this weekend. All of them. You have to wonder if anyone at Warners may be

Out tomorrow from Boom!, the final part of my Marvel Movie parodies, The Avengefuls, drawn by Joshua Covey... and this one written well before I'd seen

Pitch: The Singing Detective meets The Marvel Universe. In the nineteen sixties, a number of patients are undergoing an experimental treatment to deal

Tick, tick, tick... This is the last day you can order Bleeding Cool Magazine and actually be sure to get it. It costs $1.49 for the Preview #0 issue.

Tomorrow is new comics day. Yay! While you are picking up your copies of Avengers Versus X-Men, Aquaman or the final issue of The Twelve, as you pass by

Oh look, tomorrow I have two comic books coming out. Captain American Idol by me and Chris Haley, off of Let's Be Friends Again.... And then Scienthorlogy

C2E2 filled the weekend from Chicago, but there were also conventions in Toronto and Australia going on as well. Me, I was also away at my folks with the

This has to be one of the strangest comic books I've been involved with. And when that includes biographies of Prince William and a look at Watchmen

Got something in my head called Before Batman. It may go somewhere. But Dustin Nguyen's piece makes me smile. Here comes Chicago... Bleeding Cool will

It cannot have escaped your notice that I am writing four comics being published this month, for Boom! Studios. Parodies of the Marvel Studios movies,

As you can see from the photo above, House Johnston has received its comp copies of Iron Muslim #1. Which probably means the comic will be out in a weeks

That's what it feels like, looking at the new solicitations anyway... apologies to the Blues Brothers. Top Twenty Stories By Traffic 1. Batman And Wonder

This special 1500 copy limited edition first printing with a new "EC Homage" cover by Jacen Burrows. From Bleeding Cool BLEEDING COOL – PRODUCTS SHIPPING: JUNE 2012 ***Featured Item*** BLEEDING COOL MAGAZINE #0 Retail Price: $1.49 US MR, Full Color, 32 pages UPC: 820023007721 00011 PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Bleeding Cool, the comics and entertainment source for news, interviews, and the latest gossip and scuttlebutt[...]

What stage are you at in the Apple Product Ownership cycle? After seeing ComiXology's new HD comics for the New iPad, I'm think I'm further along. Yeah,

See, this is what I get up to if no one stops me. I'm not sure if I could do the set... Jerry for the heavy bird, Tom for the tiny one, Tammy for the