Career
Despite an early interest in comics and role-playing games, Johnston started his career as a graphic designer. He began his writing career with work for role-playing magazines before the Mark Salisbury-edited Writers on Comic Scriptwriting (Titan Books, 1999) rekindled his interest in comics. Drawing on his design skills, he now designs many of his own comics and graphic novels. In May 2001, Johnston was one of the three founding editors of NinthArt.com, an attempt at taking a literary and critical approach to the comics medium designed to act as a journal and aimed at "the discerning reader." Between 2001 and 2004, he contributed a mostly-monthly Editorial entitled "Cassandra Complex," and for five years formed one-third of the infrequent "Triple A" discussions, including the last (on June 19, 2006).
His fiction debut, Frightening Curves, was an illustrated horror novel with artwork by Aman Chaudhary, published by now-defunct Cyberosia Publishing in 2001. The book won the Best Horror Award in the 2002 IPPY awards at Book Expo America. Johnston would also produce a graphic novel - Rosemary's Backpack - and a contribution to the first PopImage anthology for Cyberosia in 2002.
In June 2008, Johnston held a Writing Masterclass workshop as part of the Thought Bubble Sequential Art Festival in Leeds.
Johnston "lives in northwest England with the loves of his life: his partner, Marcia, his dogs... and his iMac."
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