Rich Johnston Archives

Rawbone is a very viceral violent pirate story, intricately researched and written by famed Hellblazer writer Jamie Delano and drawn by Max Fiumara for

See, all you need to get your comic book coverage in USA Today is be a rock star. That's how you break into comics... Want to draw a Stan Lee Graphic

The official comment from DC Comics on the Disney buyout of Marvel Comics is "no comment." Internally of course it's a very different matter. No one saw

Greg Weisman, creator of the Gargoyles cartoon and producer of the 2008 Spectacular Spider-Man cartoon, wrote; 1. Last Thursday (8/27/09), Vic Cook and I

Isaac Perlmutter, known as "Ike", has been the big name at Marvel for quite some time and its Chief Executive for four and a half years. (Six Day) War

Michigan State University launches its History Of The Modern Comic Book course - or HST101h for its snappier name. Join in by following Assistant

014 Jack Kirby had been told, you see, that DC wanted him to reinvigorate their line, and to point the publisher towards the future.  They began by giving

Could this be a giant Josh Hoopes size trap? Design/printer owner George Horch is opening a new comic store, Atomic Comics, in mid town Sacramento. He

Reuters has managed to get word with Stan Lee. Who, while no longer as big a part of Marvel as he used to be, is still its spiritual leader with the

Okay so my Marvel Mickey in a previous post was a little poor. Let's see some people with actual artistic and/or Photoshop skills go to town! Mouserine by

I say "have to". They don't have to do anything of the sort, of course. But it would be nice. 1. The Boom Studio Question. Recently Boom Studios entered a

So what's everyone saying? CB Cebulski: This is all very new to us, folks. We have answers to general questions for now. Nothing specific yet though.

Some first thoughts. It is not April 1st. What does this mean for the Disney/Boom deal? Will Marvel now have a big booth at D23 as well? Will the Howard

Here's the Press Release... and listen along here... The Marvel/Disney deal is to complete end of calendar year. They hope to expand back catalogue and

Disney are to buy Marvel Comics for four billion dollars. I understand that there will be an investor conference call taking place in three quarters of an

The Darkness/PITT #1 shipped last week. ANd, considering Dale Keown's history on this matter, some are wondering just how much of issue 2 has been

Amelia Earhart: Drawing from History -- Original Graphic Novel Illustrations in India Ink is a new exhibition at The Downtown Art District Association

Continuing the discussion about noir comics, I see all the critical praise being heaped on Darwyn Cooke’s adaptation of the Richard Stark (aka Donald

Taking the girls to the Notting Hill Carnival today. Should be lots of fun. So expect a little less posting today. Come on, which other comics reportage

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Lunch Lady. It may be a small press superhero comic book now, but I bet it would make a swell Renee Zellweger vehicle. Sorry, was watching some

I'm not at Fan Expo this weekend, kicking off at Toronto, Canada, with Marvel and DC in attendance, as well as Lou Ferrigno who seems to get everywhere.

These are the credits from this week's copy of Fantastic Four #570. That would be Stanley Lieber and Jacob Kurtzberg referred to at the bottom, of

It took a long and winding path to get to this story. But here we go. The Search For Bruce Wayne. The Return of Batman. Two series by Grant Morrison

Comic book artist Josh Adams talks about the world he finds himself in - the industry, the family, the personality traits... So I looked at the responses

The website was registered by Margaret Liss, otherwise known as the Cerebus Fangirl, on behalf of Cerebus publisher Aardvark-Vanaheim, last month. The

Last year, Dan Didio invited a Namor fan-in-costume on the stage at a DC panel at Fan Expo Toronto. At Wizard World Philadelphia this year, Marvel's

There has been much concern on the internet message boards over the lack of solicitations for Runaways from Marvel for the last two months. Some fans

Adventure Comics #4 is one of the Blackest Night tie ins that's part of the Green Lantern rings promotion that Bleeding Cool has been  covering and

The Variants is a new sitcom web series about comic shop employees, filmed at Zeus Comics in Dallas. Episode One is complete and episode two will go live