Rich Johnston Archives

The Bill Watterson - The Quest for Calvin and Hobbes exhibition has opened in Angoulême, at the start of the largest comics art festival in the world.

ComiXology have returned to Angoulême, the world's biggest comic book festival, for their third year with a sale to spotlight comics, bandes dessinées

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjsOFNQm9t4 Even the Marvel's Avengers Assemble animated series can't avoid parallel Earths right now... BIG HEROES! BIG

As we saw in Uncanny X-Men #29, time travelling Eva Bell took a trip back in time to find the young Professor X, long before his death in Avengers Vs.

So, we wait a day now. But a number of yesterday's comic books went for big plot twists that could do with discussion. And what better place than Bleeding

This is a majestic page from Asterix And The Laurel Wreath by Goscinny and Uderzo, which has been donated to raise money for the families of those killed

Haven’t done this in a while. Not since May last year. But they always make for an entertaining slice of the collectibles market. Here are the comics

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

In 2013, Bleeding Cool ran a story regarding a well-sourced rumour we'd had that would see the Avengers fight the Ultimates for the end of the Ultimate

Sometimes a name can be so intriguing. Such as knowing that Mark Millar and Skottie Young are working on a comic together called "Huck". A reinvention of

At The Nuremberg Toy Fair (and yes, it does really sound sinister) Mattel unveiled a new Barbie doll line, that of Power Princess Barbie. Because she's a

Dr. Zebediah Killgrave, The Purple Man was a bit of a sixties joke comic book character. He first appeared in Daredevil #4 back in 1963 using his

It's fairly common in the comic industry for publishers to announce comics have sold out and gone back to a second printing. So common in fact, that we

Once upon a time, Peter David, working in sales at Marvel, handed out some preview copies of an upcoming issue of Alpha Flight to a bunch of retailers -

There may be no Crossed Badlands or Crossed +100 comics published today. And the webcomic Crossed: DOA comes out tomorrow. But today's Batman feels like

We talked about this last night. A new promotion from Boom! Studios called Push Comics Forward or #comicsforward. From the new Diamond Previews... It’s

Well, here it is folk. What all the fuss is over. Last night all cover price advance order copies of Munchkin #1 from Boom! Studios were hoovered up on

The American comic book industry was founded by the work of Jewish comic book creators. Siegel and Schuster, Lee and Kirby, but of Jewish characters there

The multiverse used to consist of an infinite number of worlds. DC was on Earth One, Marvel was on Earth 616. That last one was always a good joke. But

Tomorrow sees the launch of Munchkin #1 from Boom! Studoos. based on the card game of the same name from Steve Jackson Games. It has already sold out from

I've found it that registrations like copyrights, trademarks, and even websites can be a terrific early indicator of upcoming plans by creators and

We ran an article over the weekend, highlighting a new comic book, Old Wounds, from the creative team of Batman Strikes!'s Russell Lissau and Dark

Here's a look at some upcoming Valiant issues, previews and variant covers - how to get them all, and incentives that retailers have for ordering lots.

It is very sad, but don't blame @edgarwright - writers come into projects never knowing about the past, even if they're comic fans. — Tony Lee

This is the first piece of work that Alan Moore has written for the 2000AD publications since the end of The Ballad Of Halo Jones. And it is in tribute to

Marvel kicks off the first of the Last Days titles tying into the upcoming Secret Wars comics, by telling CBR about Loki and Newsarama about Magneto.

Matt Fraction has the end of his and Howard Chaykin's period masterpiece Satellite Sam in sight The home stretch of SATELLITE SAM lies under my shoes;

Titan Comics' April solicits for the launch of their new comic Scarlett Courture #1 by Des Taylor included a photo cover ​Well, Des does have a line in

Here you go, folks... as promised... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-BVs-KCSiA Ooh look, the Thing bursts out of a rocky egg. And apparently it's all

So. Weather. Hitting the East Coast. Maybe not as much as has been predicted but there's all to play for. And in comcis, ComiXology must be rubbing teir