Rich Johnston Archives

Mark Millar has very kindly posted a series of statistics regarding the orders of Supercrooks. In an industry where we usually have to make estimates

Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool It's a good year to be a comics fan in Chicago. In addition to C2E2, Wizard World, a plethora of comic shops and

From Fringe this week; Fauxlivia: You thought this might have something to do with the vigilante case the PD has been working? Agent Lee 1: Maybe Batman's

Taken by Alexander Añé at ECCC for Bleeding Cool, Tim Sale sketching Black Widow.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P6IhDcivwo

Okay, this is a sweet idea. Firebox are offering to make you a very small plastic head modelled on your own features in high detail, that you can then add

  Where did you take Easter service this morning? Wherever you celebrated the day, it probably wasn't in as cool a fashion as the Church Of The Rock

Proof, if more proof were needed. While the front page of the website is a "construction" page, a little URL farming reveals more about what Rick is

Welcome to Starfall City. A new novel for the Kindle for one dollar from Kirby Moore. Hmm, what an interesting name for an author... Starfall City is a

The Walking Dead #1 sells for up to $8000 in 9.9 CGC condition. But what about the original art for the comic? Image published a few thousand of that

Take a random Avengers Vs X-Men image. Put your Apple device over it with the Marvel AR App. Play around with what happens. I wonder what other images out

Bleeding Cool has been running a number of articles on ShiftyLook, the company set up by NAMCO Bandai to turn some of their older games into comic books

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGXj6EH-Res Here's professional stand up comedian John Roy at Meltdown Comics introducing Ed Brubaker... but not before

The Dynamite/Dynamic Forces response to the Edgar Rice Burroughs suit against them over the publication of Joh Carter and Tarzan comics has thrown up some

This is Computo the Comic Link Conqueror speaking. I come for your women. But for now I merely collate comic-related bits and pieces online. One day I

Bleeding Cool rather ragged on a recent Marvel Comics title commissioned to explain banking to students for being, well, awful. In comparison however,

On the Bleeding Cool forums, in response to an ECCC interview with Tony Harris, a number of readers wanted to know why Tony was creating new work for

Over at Broken Frontier, David Hine seems to have done a rather good job at burning his bridges. A familiar smaller press name from the nineties, David

  Last year, James Robinson was meant to write Savage Hawkman with Philip Tan. Instead, Tony S Daniels wrote the book. But the Robinson/Tan team was

"My boyfriend is making a comic book based on short stories of Czech sci-fi writer Ondrej Neff. He is working on this almost a year and I think that he's

For Spawn 220, the twentieth anniversary edition of Spawn, Todd McFarlane is doing variant covers aping his fellow Image artists. We've seen his Savage

The variant covers have done a fine job of selling Avengers Versus X-Men to stores of late. This is our first look at the black-and-whiteing of Ms Marvel

Saga #1 from Image Comics debuted at number forty on the Diamond charts in March, beating out the higher profile fantasy title Fairest #1 from Vertigo. I

As part of the Stephanie Brown Kickstarter April Fool on this website, I (rather giving it away I thought) stated that Marvel were creating their own

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlifuf1mY8U Mark Ruffalo is the Hulk in The Avengers 2012, following in the footsteps of Eric Bana and Edward Norton! Host

A few years ago, before they got into publishing comics properly as Dynamite Entertainment, Dynamic Forces would occasionally publish an original comic,

Rick Olney, the man who hired a bunch of comic creators to work on an anthology that he never paid, then threatened legal action against when they told

I bought my copies of Flex Mentallo off the stands, from Forbidden Planet in Newcastle I think. I loved Frank Quitely's work, and was always surprised

Hot Tamale by John Stango, on display at the Wentworth Gallery. Asking price $6500. Wonder Woman #249, cover by Rich Buckler, Dick Giordano. Original art

That's still the big news today -- Graphic.Ly leaving the arms race they'd been having with ComiXology over day-and-date replication of the direct market

Just as Marvel did when Venom shipped five issues every week in February, Marvel are issuing a bunch of incentive postcards to be given away in comic