Rich Johnston Archives

You can find all sort of people at comic conventions these days, Especially Wizard World Cons. Who, in Booth #317, will welcome this vendor. DS Arms. This

By Tim Hanley Marvel's run of record highs took a downward turn in June, with DC's early days of "Rebirth" ticking them up enough to post the higher

Trevor Von Eeden was one of DC Comics' earliest black artists, hired full-time by the publisher in 1975 when he was only 16. He is also co-creator of

It may have featured on the Advance Reorders chart for a week. But I still think Briggs Land by Brian Wood and Mack Chater from Dark Horse will be

Recently DC Comics cancelled the final five issues of Bryan Hitch‘s Justice League Of America series, #9-#12 and the Annual. In response, writer/artist

Didn't this happen with Secret Wars as well? Brian Bendis has posted to his Tumblr, regarding delays to the Civil War II series, if you peak over at

Valient Entertainment, over the summer delivered a Time Capsule to a number of comic book stores. They have just sent them the keys to open up the box and

Nine Worlds is a residential genre convention held in and around London every year that Kieron Gillen has repeatedly described as a petri-dish of the

I went to Nine Worlds this weekend. What were you reading? Top Twenty Traffic Of The Week 1. $85,000 In Comics Stolen From One Vendor At Tampa Bay Comic

We told you the other week that Harley Quinn #1 had sold 400,000 copies to comic book stores. Of course it managed this with plenty of exclusive retailer

Roger Corman's Fantastic Four movie may never have been officially released. But the movie about the movie will be. No VHS-to-VHS bootleg copies for this

The retailer exclusive copy of All-Star Batman #1 from Midtown Comics costs $15. On the day of release last week, the writer Scott Snyder signed copies at

Some people mistake Change.org as akin to government policy by proxy - that if enough people sign something, then it will happen. It won't, of course. But

A comic by Mike Wellman and Ralph Miranda. You may recognise some of the people featured. Or maybe not.

I called it a rout on Friday and was castigated for it. But the full Top 100 stats for comic books sold to North American comic book stores in July 2016

Bleeding Cool ran the rumour on Friday but now it's official. On its final day, Boston Comic Con promoter Jim Talbot  is, as we speak, going from booth to

By Mike Sangregorio There was no better way to close a week at San Diego Comic-Con than by taking time to remember, and reminisce fondly, about Jack

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

The Kiss Catalog, the company behind the exploitation of the rock band KISS, has registered a trademark for a comic book called KISS Babies. IDW

I will have plenty of things to say, all pretty much positive, about the Nine Worlds convention in London this weekend. But for now I thought I'd leave

He is one of the most widely respected comic creators right now, with his Tokyo Ghost comic coming out from Image Comics. Sean Gordon Murphy has been

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCJEYFpipVM Bleeding Cool reader Nick Kazden made a video looking at the evolution of the Joker alongside American fears.

Courtesy of Dirk Manning.... Love Stories (To Die For) #1 can be found here.... In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to

DC Comics media partner Comicosity has a preview of next week's Superman #5 by Peter J. Tomasi, Patrick Gleason, Doug Mahnke, Jamie Mendoza and Wil

Nine Worlds, a Sci-fi-fantasy-comics-gaming-everything really convention is occurring in Hammersmith, West London right now. As I type I'm in the Joss

Steve Pugh has the kind of e-mails that I lost a long time ago. Such as his first e-mail from an American reader back in December 1999 about his

Here's big question. Are you worried... or jealous that you didn't think of this Baby Groot cosplay yourself?  

And there we thought we ran an exclusive list of All-Star Batman retailer exclusives the other day. Clearly not. Newbury Comics has an exclusive cover

Cheltenham's True Believers Comic Festival and The Nerds Who Haunted Themselves Podcast  have organised an evening with Dr Who and Action Comics' scribe,

Can you feel it? November solicitations are in the air...Titan are excited to reveal Masked #1 - a new comic series written by author Serge And that