Rich Johnston Archives

Time to add another to the big list - from retail chain Hastings. Up on the website any second now I shouldn't doubt. Time to add it to the big list!

This is what happens to a Batman #23 and a Batman #25 after they've been in a fire... There are some things that even CGC can't quite protect against. We

It is certainly one of my favourite comic books of all time. I have the original serialised chapters from the early nineties horror anthology Taboo and

Lots of comic book publishers are publishing lots of great comics. But in 2014, there was one that stood out head and shoulders above the rest in the

Jonathan Hickman and Ryan Bodenheim's new comic book from Image, The Dying And The Dead, as a Final Order Cut Off Date of next Monday - the last chance

Tom Muller (who does the awesome cover work on Ales Kot's Zero each month) has designed six covers for the Valiant Next launch titles for the first half

Here is your Avengers NOW Trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK3eCSDMQdI In case you like your comic book covers to move about and someone in a deep

This is what you call a Rich Twitch? Yesterday, Bleeding Cool reported concerns from some retailers that the Doctor Who Free Comic Book Day title offered

BBC Radio 4's Today Programme this morning, ran a feature towards the end of its three hour broadcast, looking at the ethnic makeup of modern day comic

The ACBD have published their annual run down of the French-speaking comic book marketplace. Calling it a year of contradictions, they point to more

Adi Tantimedh writes,  It’s been a heady few weeks for Sony Studios and their movie The Interview. First the studio got hacked in late November.

Over at Newsarama, in an arranged interview with Marvel PR, Dustin Weaver has told them, With Edge of Spider-Verse #3 I did everything myself. I wrote,

Of late, Brian Bendis has given us two specific plot points that seem to contradict what has been dubbed the Marvel Rolling Continuity, set in place since

Savage Dragon is one of my favourite superhero comic books, and has been for decades. Constantly surprising, as well as full of explosive action, over the

Outcast, the Image/Skybound comic book by Robert Kirkman and Paul Azaceta has hit a further trademark bump. Valiant Entertainment, holder of the comic

In two days time, Lying In The Gutters will run it's 2014 edition, seeing the top twenty stories of the year, with the 1st January being filled with

On the left is the Gamestop variant cover for S.H.I.E.L.D. #1 out on Wednesday, while on the right is the Hastings version. They join a bunch of other

Here we go folks. Tintin cover original artwork for Tintin In America, sold two years ago for $1.6 million. This year, a double page spread featuring a

San Diego comic store Comickaze has announced their top 100 (ish) selling graphic novels of the year, spread out across a number of Facebook posts. Here

I had a grand time visiting OK Comics in Leeds during this year's Thought Bubble Festival. And they seem to have had a grand year as well. Here is their

Tex Willer is a comic book phenomenon in Italy. A Western comic created by Gian Luigi Bonelli and Aurelio Galleppini, it was first published in Italy in

Now that US and Cuba will normalize relations, maybe it's time to show some pages of top Cuban comic artist Orestes Suárez, who works for Sergio Bonelli

This is the Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, as compiled by a (smaller this week) number of comic stores from their sales on Wednesday and Thursday.

According to editor Moreno Burattini on Facebook, traditional Bonelli comic Zagor will be published in the US next year. Zagor is an hybrid

Stan Lee talked to Joe Field of Flying Colors Comics back in 1988, a video that has been uncovered from the vaults and slapped on YouTube... enjoy,

http://youtu.be/DaF-UFZ_fOc Kevin Huckabee writes, Our indiegogo account is supporting a fundraising effort to make a comic book and for $50 you could be

Seven down, five to go, as Richard Starkings and JG of Comicraft talk through their tips and peeves of lettering, including never before seen versions of

Marvel's new S.H.I.E.L.D. comic book launches next Wednesday, though stores should all have comics already, snuggling in their stock rooms. Although some

Francesco Francavilla often draws illustrations while watching Doctor Who. And he has just put together a belter, capturing the "Hi Hi Rudolph" moment

An appeal started by Norm Breyfogle's sister-in-law, raising money for his care after the famed Batman artist suffered a stroke before Christmas, has