Rich Johnston Archives

There are two three more names being given by people either being laid off by DC, or who have chosen not to relocate as part of their job. The first is

StripWatch1: Next weekend, 50 newspaper strips turn pink for breast cancer awareness month. StripWatch2: David Hagen talks Peanuts. Which reminds me, must

Earlier this year, Bleeding Cool reported the sad demise of Comics International. The once proud British comics trade magazine that, at its height,

Okay, okay, it's nothing more than that Jim Lee just posted the following sketch to Twitter. Of John Constantine, pint and cigarette in hand, with an

The double page spread, two pages of a comic book combined to create one landscape image for the reader was pioneered by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby in the

See Mark Millar? This is how you get a superhero onto a billboard on Times Square. The Alliance for Consumer Education (ACE) have a germ-fighting

self-portrait, ©2010 Dylan Horrocks His bio: Dylan Horrocks lives in New Zealand and is the author of the graphic novel Hicksville (recently re-released

Today sees the Wizard World Big Apple Comic Con take New York. With a little help from Mark Millar, Adam West and a Human Centipede. Then next week, the

SatireWatch: So San Diego Comic Con is to stay in... San Diego. Saves having to print a whole new lot of stationary I suppose. Most people expected this,

British town that's home to the famed Oxford University, it's a town that straddles the gleamingist of spires to the grottiest of council estates. And

Okay, consider this a heads up warning for retailers who live in certain sensitive parts of... well, we're talking America I suppose. But its also

2009 Attendance: 77,000 Percentage of pre-registration compared to 2009 so far: 110% Major comics publishers featured: All of them Even Wizard? Okay, no,

They're all $3.99. None of them are by Warren Ellis or Cully Hamner (though he does do covers). And they all came out in one week. I wouldn't be surprised

It's the first Archie comic in history to sell out and need a second print. And with Perez Hilton getting in on the action, no wonder that the first (out)

Here are ten imaginary US dollars. What can we spend them on today in hope of a decent return in six months time? Well, tip for the top is Green Lantern

Ferg Handley and Kev Hopgood's dramatic historical adventure comic Lawless is the latest announced serialised number for next year's British newstand

MovieWatch: Is Darren Aranofsky going to direct Preacher? StatWatch: Are one in four comic book readers over 65? (No, just that nine in ten over sixty

From Ultimate Comics in the US/Canada and Forbidden Planet in the UK, here is a retailer variant to Mark Millar and John Romita Jr's upcoming Kick Ass 2

Seriously, what were they thinking regarding the new design of Dazzler's costume in X-Men? Note, it's just the same round the front as well. In Swipe File

So, Wildstorm ends in December. But what about all the trade paperback collections which have had to be set up much further in advance to deal with the

It was probably the best scene in the vaguely disappoointing Iron Man 2. Tony Stark gets flung the case. He opens it, places it down on the ground and it

WizardWatch: Joe Simon attends this weekend's Wizard World Big Apple Comic Con. Say, maybe fellow attendee Mark Millar and he could put their heads

X-Men: First Class came to Oxford yesterday. And Bleeding Cool's Brendon Connelly wandered around the streets as they filmed, taking a few photos as he

The Hollywood Reporter... reports that Jonas Cuaron has had an untitled pitch picked by by Warner Bros, even though his previous big screenplay Gravity

Production Weekly has justed tweeted the following Wes Anderson-filled goodness; Wes Anderson has begun pre-production on his next live-action project,

So, it's coming up to the New York Comic Con. The biggest comic book celebration on the east coast. And you want to get in for free. It's probably a bit

He's working on comics from Boom!, Disney and Archie. He's launching MTV Geek. And now Stan "The Man" Lee is lined up to help launch 1821 Comics. This is

Could Claudette Colbert's costume playing the lead in the 1934 movie Cleopatra provided the inspiration for the Vampirella costume designed by Trina

Bob Harras worked for Jim Lee after leaving Marvel (never doing the contributing work that was promised to the press) from New Jersey before working as

The Free Lady Death Premier comic is available from participating retailers in the US and Canada today and in the UK tomorrow. Leading into the new