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Founder of Bleeding Cool, now one of many writers. Father of two. Political cartoonist. Brought up Yorkshire, now London.

London, England
Joined April 2007
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Rich Johnston
3 years
This is my birthday card painted by my eldest daughter Eve. I have not the words...
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2 years
@amandadeibert a) insanely awful and b) everyone in the world is checking your IMDB.
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3 years
The line outside @GoshComics right now...
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2 years
@FCardamenis "a woman can be any size or shape she wants" "what about a hexagon?"
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1 year
So yes, publishers weren't up for paying Colleen Doran an advance to cover the creation of the Good Omens graphic novel. So they kickstarter it instead, and raised over two million so far, a comics record for crowdfunding. Don't bet against @neilhimself @ColleenDoran @terryandrob
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Bleeding Cool
1 year
Publishers Wouldn't Pay Advance for Good Omens Graphic Novel, By Sir Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran, Which Just Hit Two Million Dollars On Kickstar #goodomens #kickstarter @neilhimself @terryandrob @ColleenDoran @kickstarter @GoodOmensPrime
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2 years
@FCardamenis "you are playing all the wrong notes" " I am playing all the right notes. Though not necessarily in the right order. I'll give you that, sunshine, I'll give you that"
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2 years
@FCardamenis "your name vill go on ze list. vat ist your name?" " Don't tell him, Pike." "Pike."
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7 years
Kris Marshall is Peter Davison to Peter Capaldi's Tom Baker
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2 years
@fesshole No one is appreciating the skill in the writing of this. "His other" changing the whole dynamic rather than "another of his".
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4 months
Here we go, folks, Absolute Comics, the new Ultimate-style line from Scott Snyder, as part of DC Comics's new publishing initiative, DC All-In.
@bleedingcool
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4 months
Scott Snyder's Ultimate Line For DC Is To Be Called Absolute Comics - And All Part Of DC's "All-In" Publishing Initiative 🔗
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2 years
@Slimwhittwv @bleedingcool That's why DC must divorce Superman and Lois, and Marvel must divorce Reed and Sue, Ben and Alicia, and Peter Parker and Mary Jane... oh wait, they kinda did the last one.
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2 years
@EveHarmsWrites @adampknave I think that may be good advice for some, especially in America, but self deprecatory humour can be a sign of confidence, and can present a more approachable and relatable persona. Brits for example will never take you seriously if you can’t laugh at yourself,
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6 years
@BlakeNorthcott Back to basics then? Doctor Who's original intention was historical education for kids and Sidney Newman didn't want even aliens. Mind you he also wanted a female Doctor in the eighties...
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@Sandra032017475 @bleedingcool @neilhimself @terryandrob @ColleenDoran @Kickstarter @GoodOmensPrime Hi Jude Crowder, I don't think you have ever managed to promote a crowdfunding campaign as succssfully as this one has achieved without you.
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3 years
Putting this out here so it's searchable - 02039656966 or 0203 9656966 or 0203 965 6966- is a scam phone number from people pretending to be from HMRC and threatening legal action. My wife almost got caught and has been freaking out.
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In 2011, Bleeding Cool broke the story of what would later be called the New 52. . Well, later today, it's time for Bleeding Cool to do it all over again. Are you all-in?
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8 years
Don't you hate it when SJWs take over your favourite comic and replace all the characters with other, more diverse, characters in the lead?
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@tomhfh I'm not entirely sure the suitcases full of booze wheeled down from the Trafalgar Square Tescos on a regular basis can be dismissed as easily as a bit of cake.
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6 years
@JaneESnyder @neilhimself @jtruji_wuji @TheAuthorGuy I'm not saying that the only reason my kids go to Sunday school is so they can get Good Omens better when they grow up. But it has to be a contributory factor.
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4 years
@TomKingTK I have been told that until very recently, Jae Lee hadn't heard of CG, he is not on social media. Once he caught up he turned down subsequent requests.
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@bleedingcool
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8 months
Many Comic Book Artists Named As Being Used By MidJourney #ai 🔗
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2 years
@NoContextBrits Are you sure this luuggage isn't yours, ma'am?"
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2 months
So... who wants a first look at Absolute Batman?
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4 years
Neil Gaiman + Bryan Talbot original cover art for Dirtbag #3 published 1994. Part of #ComicWritersChallenge auctioning it off w/proceeds going to BLM support. Highest bid in thread by 7th Jun 10am PT 1pm ET 6pm BST gets it. Full story here: @neilhimself
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6 years
Eve and I at the Trump protest march in London...
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11 months
@TomTaylorMade @AllredMD @BollandBrian That's not fair, Tom. They are also stealing from Charles Burns, Lee Bermejo and Kevin Nowlan here.
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2 years
@NoContextBrits Dark bounty bars.
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2 years
It was really fun putting together this piece comparing Mark Buckingham's Miracleman Silver Age now and thirty years ago, as he completely redraws the whole thing from @neilhimself 's same script.
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2 years
To celebrate Alan Moore's 69th birthday, why not watch his movie debut, The Show, on Amazon Prime or Amazon Freevee? - UK - USA
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3 years
Looks like @theblerdgurl has a big new project alongside #BlackPanther2 for 2022 with the #DoraMilaje
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3 years
TheBlerdGurl Founder Writes Marvel's Training Manual For The Dora Milaje #blackpanther #blackpanther2 #theblerdgurl
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5 years
Happy birthday to Mary Shelley, the inventor of science-fiction and the post-apocalypse genre. Not bad.
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1 year
@pk_kenzie @spencermuttbear Would you ever be willing to share details, even privately? These things should be recorded as having existed, even if they never made it out.
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2 years
@TheDent57808807 @NoContextBrits The US has far worse dental health than the UK.
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6 years
Can we have an addendum to Godwin's Law that, when the person you are arguing with on Twitter says that Nazism is left wing because it stands for National Socialism, you just automatically stop and go about your day?
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9 months
@Zal_Cryptid I was educated by Neil Gaiman that this could even be a thing over 30 years ago. So sorry you even have to think about this.
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2 years
@NoContextBrits Michael Palin.
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2 years
@Fad_Air_Falbh @cyclingweekly Would you believe that would be the case if you had taken hormones to lower your total testosterone level in serum below 2.5 nmol/L for a period of at least 24 months?
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Bleeding Cool is fifteen years old. Goodness.
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2 years
@GailSimone That's because your second amendment guarantees your right to arm bears.
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1 year
@ponysmasher You think you can walk away? That you can just walk away? You can never walk away! On your death bed people will still be asking you about your thoughts on Mary Marvel's skirt length!!
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5 months
We all owe this man so much, at Wildstorm, at DC Comics, and at IDW. What's he going to do next? @NearMintCon take note...
@bleedingcool
Bleeding Cool
5 months
Artist's Editions Creator Scott Dunbier Quits IDW Publishing 🔗
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5 years
Michael Davis, founder of Milestone, co-creator of Static Shock and dammit, my friend, took his life yesterday. Please, if you ever find yourself in this place, talk to someone. Please.
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8 years
If you have never listened to the original Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy, it's right here for the next 30 days.
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2 years
Today was not the day I was expecting to reveal that a publisher at San Diego Comic-Con is working as a front for Kremlin propaganda about Russian soldiers #sdcc22 #sdcc2022 #sandiegocomiccon
@bleedingcool
Bleeding Cool
2 years
Russian Publisher Bubble Comics Causes Outrage at San Diego Comic-Con #russia #bubblecomics #sdcc #sdcc22 #sdcc2022 #sandiegocomiccon
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5 months
Have you emailed your support for DC Comics publishing the unpublished Swamp Thing #88 by Rick Veitch after 35 years?
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5 months
Might DC Comics Finally Publish Rick Veitch's Swamp Thing #88 In 2025? 🔗
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@OwenJones84 The moral of this story is never be a close friend of Owen Jones,
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5 months
What a fucking week.
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2 years
@EndWokeness Because a) they lost 3 million cricket subscribers. And b) that headline is fake news.
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5 months
Some people want an article about a sensitive topic, that takes days of researching, fact checking sources, ensuring strict editorial guidelines and legal necessities are followed, immediately. And if there isn't one within 5 minutes, presume there won't be one. I blame ChatGPT.
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5 years
I am genuinely talking to grown men upset that DC Comics is introducing a new non-binary superhero into a comic book they don’t read.
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2 years
@PhillipKJohnson @ColleenDoran Some people seem to think Neil Gaiman wrote every TV fantasy show right now. That not true, he only wrote half of them.
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6 years
@dysart_james @straczynski @ErikJLarsen @BRIANMBENDIS @JoeQuesada @MarkWaid @ComicsBulletin @DiversityAndCmx @bleedingcool @DanSlott @douglasernst Straczynski has made a point of not reading any such things sent to him, and specifically asking people not to send him story ideas for this exact reason.
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6 years
@neilhimself Here was mine...
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Anyone want to read the creative line-up of DC's Absolute Universe line as well as Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta on Absolute Batman?
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1 year
Here's a question. Even with advance distribution, Amazing Spider-Man #26 had not hit Penguin Random House stores let alone Diamond. So HOW did it leak?
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@1horseshy @CBLDF A free speech organisation having let alone enforcing NDAs would not be a good look, ever. Damn.
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5 years
@GWF_1987 @DCComics SJW 'bullshit' began Vertigo. It's what Vertigo was always about. You've only just realised it.
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2 years
@vectevs65 @billybragg "Woke" box ticking in your response aside, isn't it more about fighting for the right not to be fired for wanting to unionise?
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5 years
Never done this before - but could @ComicBook @newsarama @CBR @comicsbeat @multiversitycom @io9 @nerdist @digitalspy @graemem @georgegustines @deadline @thr consider reporting on Conny's situation and GoFundMe? This is one of the most dire situations.
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2 years
@FCardamenis "can you urinate in that bottle?" "What, from here?"
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3 years
Imagine if DC Comics had kept funding Zuda, what an economic monster that would be now?
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5 years
Tomorrow is Bleeding Cool's tenth anniversary. Blimey.
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I don't know why but two weeks before San Diego Comic-Con, everyone just goes mad.
@bleedingcool
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Penguin Random House Buys Boom Studios, Leaves Diamond, Makes Redundancies? #boomstudios 🔗
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2 years
@squeezyjohn @NoContextBrits I think that’s pretty much normal, to one degree or another, in every country. Some do it even more than the UK. France, I’m looking at you.
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7 years
I have just seen Thor Ragnarok. Easily the best Marvel movie to date. Happy to answer questions, not too spoilery.
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2 years
@neilhimself @officialnhaynes The Village Voice reported Alan Moore's "terraced streets of Northampton" as "terrorist streets of Northampton". I loved that.
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5 years
@IvankaTrump @BorisJohnson I live in Kingston, Ivanka. It's not that united.
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2 years
@matthewdmarsden Yes. Obviously. Victoria Wood, alone, would be funnier than every male comedian.
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5 months
MD Bright RIP. I loved your work, especially with Priest. It's been a hell of a day. But your Quantum And Woody will live on forever, and your Icon was an icon.
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MD Bright of Armor Wars, Quantum & Woody and Icon Dies, Aged 68 🔗
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@pol_luke @tomhfh Clarkson got sacked for punching a producer. Lineker criticised the government's language. If he'd have punched Rishi, he'd have been sacked.
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8 years
On the UK calendar, today's date is 9/11.
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4 years
@worldofmera He took it to court, she didn't. He lost, she didn't. That's the difference to WB.
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3 years
How about this - will post the full unredacted DC Comics Timeline that would have kicked off 5G, trashed when Dan DiDio was fired - if this gets 100 retweets. #dccomics #comics #5g #futurestate #infinitefrontier #AttentionSeekingNarcissist
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6 years
Curious casting decision in Jane Eyre. Mr Rochester: 'I am I hideous, Jane?' Jane Eyre: 'No, you're Michael Fassbender.'
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Just saw Deadpool And Wolverine and it was great. You know that audience cheer when Cap picked up the hammer in Endgame? I counted six of those. People are going to lose their shit in a good way. No one is ready for this.
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4 years
Okay then, who wants some news about Geoff Johns?
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5 years
If you have a comic book, comic kickstarter, graphic novel, comics event to promote, let me know on richjohnston @bleedingcool .com
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3 years
@Dominic2306 As a hack in very different field, some of my best industry sources slag me off in public, so as to ensure no one suspects - they often clear it with me, but I'm okay with it, I know the game. Is this different in Whitehall?
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8 years
@MarkSimoneNY looks like the guy on the left didn't spent all his time on Twitter and got the job done.
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2 years
This is what happens when you interview Alan Moore and don’t ask him about superheroes or when he’ll write more comic books.
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'A rich vein of mystic British visionaries continued from William Blake to Aleister Crowley and Austin Osman Spare, snaking its way to the poverty-stricken Boroughs of Northampton where, in 1953, Alan Moore was born...' An Interview With Alan Moore
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6 years
@piersmorgan The local market stall is selling vegan fruit. Will you have a word?
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1 year
@PoorlyAgedWho Christopher Eccleston: Our Friends In The North David Tennant: Casanova Matt Smith: Last Night In Soho John Hurt: I Claudius Peter Capaldi: The Thick Of It Jodie Whittaker: Attack The Block Jo Martin: Small Axe Ncuti Gatwa: Sex Education
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2 years
@anon_opin They'll make that and more on the speech circuit afterwards
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3 years
@tomhfh Wasn't gifted property. Got a mortgage, lived like peasants for a few years.
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