Rich Johnston Archives

This morning, Apple opened the Comics & Graphic Novels iBookstore section. Here's the full list in order of popularity. The free New Avengers #1 has

Grace Randolph's Stacktastic! looks at this weekend's DC Nation TV show for Bleeding Cool, analysing each and every strand in the light of the comics, the

Juliet Landau, who played Drusilla in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel TV series is to write a Buffy Season 9 spinoff comic, featuring her acting

I've been told that in tomorrow's Justice League #6, the only one of the New 52 titles shipping tomorrow, ynot only do you get 23 pages of Geoff Johns and

In the sixties, there was a British TV series that also aired in the US, called The Avengers. A tongue-in-cheek spy action adventure series starring a

Some people complain that there's just too much movies, TV, toys, games, cartoons and cosplay at comic conventions., And not enough of the comics. Well,

ThirtyGrandDelight: Pixton Comics Inc has won a $30,000 prize for winning a new business competition in British Columbia, BCIC-New Ventures Competition.

Not too long ago, it was Fox 5 News of Washington, DC. Now it's NBC affilite WNYT of Albany, New York. And it's Catwoman with her Bat-shagging tendencies

TypoWatch: I know, I know, mote and beam, mote and beam. ConWatch: USA Today attends the London Super Comic Convention. And takes photos of cosplayers.

While we are awaiting for the official announcement that Saga #1 by Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples has sold out from Diamond, here is one store, Famous

Jesse James, very excitedly, writes for Bleeding Cool;   As a young twelve year old boy thirty years ago I went into my first con in San Diego and

From Bleeding Cool's new tattoo correspondent, Alex Wilson. X-Men tattoos by Dave Koenig and his studio Liquid Courage of Omaha NE. For when you arms need

One of these days, Wonder Woman is going to stop running into the wide gaping mouth of some monstrosity looking for a bite. Or some dental work. But not

  Ryan King writes for Bleeding Cool; Ryan King: Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule today to speak with us at Bleeding Cool. It really is

This weekend, I heard from two more unpaid comic creators. One owed money from the company we mentioned last week with at least two other debts to their

The Image Comics Expo and London Super Comic Convention - two new shows on the same weekend half a world apart - it's the sign that convention season is

The X-Men seem a little outnumbered by their Avenger counterparts in this line of Marvel comics stuff for pets. There are plenty of Avengers, but far too

Diamond Comic Distributors has again awarded the winners of their Diamond Gem Awards for 2011. And DC Comics have wiped the board, with their name on

Peter S. Svensson, for reasons we can not fathom, is still writing for Bleeding Cool. Someone, quick, call him a doctor. A new Witch Doctor: Mal Practice

Adi Tantimedh writes Look! It Moves! every week for Bleeding Cool; Last Wednesday, Dark Horse Comics released the first installment of the DRAGON AGE

On the left hand side, the Avengers. On the right hand side, X-Men. Before Watchmen is still nowhere to be seen. Over eleven hundred comic stores have

This is the Valiant promo for the talking X-O Manowar poster, that uses a QR Code to launch a video on an smartphone, becoming the mouth of the character;

There's one thing everyone seemed to agree on at the London Super Comic Convention. It was a money vacuum cleaner. Bob Layton told me that he took more

Ryan King writes for Bleeding Cool from Image Comic Expo; When it comes to zombies in comic books, there is no doubt Image Comics wears the crown of

AwardWatch: LA Times Book Prize nominees announce the graphic novel category; In the graphic novel category, “Garden” by Yuichi Yokoyama was nominated

Ryan King reports from Image Comics Expo for Bleeding Cool; If you love NBC’s geeky homage comedy series Community, chances are you carry around a brown

When asked on the Bendis boards about his lack of response to the recent rumour that Brian Bendis would be talking over the Xbooks at Marvel, and if that

John Layman and Rob Guillory ended the second day of Image Comics Expo with a panel on their sleeper hit title, Chew. Layman began the panel by

Jim Zubkavich will be moderating a panel today at Image Comics Expo with James Sime (Isotope), Brian Hibbs (Comix Experience), Todd Martinez (Image

Despite our best efforts to stop him, Peter S. Svensson continues to write for Bleeding Cool from the Image Comics Expo. Day Two of the Image Comics Expo