Rich Johnston Archives

The previously promoted Stan Lee Documentary needs a classical orchestral background. But doesn't want to pay for it. So they're looking for Marvel fans

While typing with the BAFTA Awards in the background, I’m given to thinking about the exalted position Movies still hold, even as the medium and industry

The Kansas City copy of Action Comics #1 CGC 8.0, unrestored has just sold to an unnamed buyer for $1,000,000, becoming the first to hit that mark.

Don Murphy is a movie producer, with films such as  Natural Born Killers, Apt Pupil, From Hell, LXG and Transformers under his belt, with Deadman, Grant

DC Comics's Vertigo imprint have released the previouisly-unannounced Jim Lee cover to American Vampire, half written by Stephen King, half by Scott

Gareb Shamus has bought the ten year old Nashville Comic & Horror Festival and has renamed it Nashville Comic Con Wizard World Convention for later

This is a dangerous game. Looking at just published or just-about-to-be published books and making predictions for the speculator market as to what comics

DC's The Source blog just put up a preview of this week's issue of Justice League: Cry For Justice #7. But in doing so, cruelly split up two double page

Kevin O'Neill has given an extensive interview to Douglas Wolk at The Comics Journal about his career. During which he talks about the issues with DC

MillarWatch:When posters collide... And just in case you thought @Not_Mark_Millar was an exaggeration, Mark Millar tells us his latest plans with Kick-Ass

Stan's Back. Featuring Stan Lee's signature in advertising both in print... ...and online, using Project Wonderful. The ads link to www.stansback.com - a

Here's the Doctor Who trailer that aired on BBC One and will be seen, in 3D, by audiences for Alice In Wonderland. All very whizzy and spirally if

Brazilian publisher Gal Editora are publishing Phil Hester and John McCrea's The Atheist as a Portguese language graphic novel Invasao Do Mortos this

StoreWatch: As part of a profile on success in the face of recession on Ventura Boulevard, Sherman Oaks, LA in The Daily News, Earth -2 gets mentioned, as

A hardback glossy comic book for a dollar? Sounds like a bargain right? Not if you're the Taxpayer's Alliance in the UK. And are complaining about the

So.. which one is which? Thanks to the New York Times In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree. They may be

The KeyBoard Is My FuckMonkey: Some extra-curricular thoughts on the whole "Superheroes: Good Or Bad For Comics" debate, which has been raging -- RAGING!

Terry Moore talks about sending Strangers In Paradise Omnibuses to Belgium - what's left of them when they get through Belgian customs that is. Signed,

DCWatch: So, yesterday Diane Nelson And The DC High Five spoke to all sorts of people. Dan DiDio, Jim Lee, Geoff Johns spoke to CBR extensively early in

Well that was a conversation I never thought I'd have. I just spoke to a round table of the DC's new High Five - Jim Lee, Geoff Johns, Dan Didio, Patrick

A note from Rich Johnston So. A Brand New Day at DC Comics. No deals with Mephisto (not that we know of anyway.) There have been some problems at DC of

Well, this makes a lot of sense. Bleeding Cool has been pointing out that if Sony really want to make a film based on Ultimate Spider-Man then they should

DC have made the big announcement. The role of Publisher at DC Comics has been split between a number of key individuals as Co-Publishers. Dan DiDio and

It looks like Harlan Ellison and Kyle Baker are collaborating on a new The Spirit story. Okay then. From Harlan Ellison's newsletter; HE (Harlan Ellison)

Seriously, do you want to be in Kenneth Branagh's Thor, based on the Marvel comic of the same name? Hang out with the likes of Sir Anthony Hopkins,

So... are you all over Kevin Smith's Green Hornet but long for the Kato of old? In fact, is Kato all you were reading Green Hornet for and now you've got

I knew it would only be a matter of time before a media source would talk to Millar about those Superman movie plans again, in the light of Warener Bros'

FishWatch: NPR totally and utterly geeks out over the return of Aquaman in Blackest Night. Seriously. It's embarrassing. BAD NEWS! This New Direction

A few months ago they were a start-up company in the North East of England, competing for grants investment from venture capital firms. Now they are

Fred Hembeck caught up with Terry Austin the other day. And Terry shared a few pages he'd inked for upcoming Archie comic, Archie New Series: My Father's