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The next issue of Jon Layman and Rob Guillory's hit comic Chew will be a couple of weeks late. And here, courtesy of Rob, is the best reason in the world

So, yes, this is the comic book I spend the Christmas holidays writing. A biographical comic book telling the lives of Prince William and Kate Middleton

We hope we can provide a platform for this." International giants like Marvel (which already has a presence in India) and DC are expected to showcase their latest products alongside a clutch of local comics publishers like Vimanika, Level 10 and Campfire – all recent entrants to the Indian market The more serious readers can look[...]

Amazing. Absolutely amazing. Thank you Joe.

In less than two weeks, the biggest comic book convention in the world begins, Angoulême in France. During the four day festival, Virtual Graphics will launch, publishing comics from the two-year-old German webcomics site Zampano, with all strips now running in German, English and French, including work by  David Boller (Kaos Moon, Witchblade, Spider-Man, Elfquest),[...]

Especially when Dark Horse have licensed the Flash Gordon comics to reprint, while Checker BPG still has copies of the same material available in the market. So that's currently six potential Flash Gordon publishers Any more for any more? Last year, Bleeding Cool reported how both Ardden Entertainment and Dynamite Entertainment were both publsihing Flash Gordon[...]

Here you can see him standing, Stark Expo-like, next to his father as the assembled throng chanted "Why was he born so beautiful, why was he born at all"? I made my excuses and left to catch the last tube home,just as the women arrived, wearing moustaches… IndiaWatch: Comics go medical; If the interactive voice recording system on[...]

1983. Color by Olyoptics. As pretty much everybody hereabouts knows by now, Marvel Comics is reissuing my run on Thor from the 80s in an Omnibus volume, with new coloring by Steve Oliff and his crew. Marvel has been kind enough to let me see some of the pages and post this one[...]

SexWatch: ABC News covers the Comics Stripped exhibition at New York's Museum Of Sex And the illustration on the wall doesn;t seem to approve of Craig Yoe's middle age crisis haircut This is The Bleeding Cool ComicChron Robot speaking I come for your women But for now I merely collate comic-related bits and pieces online[...]

There's a lot of prejudice against American-Canadians in comics, it's good to see Marvel taking a stand here Indeed, it's possible that Arune may be the most powerful American-Canadian in comics right now. Would all Marvel employees please email me, so I can check the signature on your emails and work out who has been promoted[...]

Marvel's blimey-that-seems-similar-to-Flashpoint crossover series is due to kick, off with Age Of X Alpha #1 on January 26th, So does the mega-mainstream promoted bagged death issue Fantastic Four #587 (and second prints of #583, #584, #585, #586) X-Men #7 ( all 9 covers) and a promotion Marvel Party event in many stores to help push the book. The[...]

Wednesday Comics from DC was one of those breaths of fresh air in mainstream comics An experimentation with the medium itself A series of one-massively-over-sized-page strips on newsprint, sequential over twelve issues Some worked better than others but overall it was an astounding and very welcome project. And the original issues are so much better than[...]

Chino is the first graphic novel by Canadian cartoonist David Collier and is an autobiographical account of his decision and experioence re-enlisting in the Canadian army and serving in Afghanistan. Chris Ware has been very kind about the book; "Chimo is an idiosyncratic, compelling and hilarious musing-in-comics that I couldn't put down Seemingly a quirky memoir[...]

Comics Stripped is a new exhibition in New York's Museum Of Sex, featuring sex in comics, curated by museum curator Sarah Forbes and Craig Yoe, author of Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman's Co-creator Joe Shuster and Clean Cartoonists' Dirty Drawings With 150 displays featuring work from 18 Tijuana Bibles of the Great Depression[...]

DC Comics have been running Flashpoint teasers on the Source blog that seem to indicate some kind of parallel world/universe/time altering affair A married Wonder Woman, a ringless Green Lantern, a playboy Batman, an absent Superman and a dissected Aquaman…? And is Woman's marriage to British royalty? Princess Diana? All sorts of fun speculation… [...]