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Speculator Corner: Revival #1 Ripping Through eBay
A second print is on the way (cover right) for August 11th, but it doesn't look like that will affect the prices… Do we have another Chew on our hands? What price the original FCBD issue that previewed the comic, Walking Dead #99 that also ran a preview or the rare, impossible-to-find FCBD pulped early version? Start[...]
Poyo Variant Cover Sells Out At San Diego Comic Con
John Layman printed hundreds of copies of the Secret Agent Poyo comic, a spinoff of Chew, for San Diego Comic Con, exclusively. They were to have had a pink metallic foil cover, but printer error turned it gold. Nevertheless, he has now almost sold out, and has put a block on selling any more today[...]
Chog Collecting Craze About To Start
Chogs are the strange hybrid between frogs and chicken, created by genetic laboratories in the comic Chew as a way to get around the federal prohibition of chicken. No one really wanta Chog, but they're kinda forced to. Possibly, a little like these actual Chogs from Skelton Crew Studio, creating a series of pop replicas from the[...]
Secret Agent Poyo Gets Jesse Jamesed
I cant imagine the comic book world without Layman and Guillory and of course Chew! Also, if I'm in your way just push me to the side I don't want to be the cause of you missing out on these books. Tony Parker, who I call the IRON MAN OF COMICS will be at several tables[...]
Poyo! Poyo! Poyo! At San Diego Comic Con
Secret Agent Poyo is the upcoming Chew oneshot starring the cyborg assassin chicken from the series who has become a breakout hit character without one word of dialogue escaping from his beak. I've had a very minor role in this comic, helping John Layman with a few English specific references, as the chicken in question is[...]
Chew #1, CGC 9.9
Are you a retailer who would like to be included? Contact us. Reply to this article in the forum. Further Reading: CHEW, CROSSED, X-O MANOWAR, WALKING DEAD, ADVENTURE TIME, HAPPY, SPECULATOR CORNER Bleeding Cool Magazine Article By Rich Johnston We learned it on the first day of Economics 101 The price of a good is determined by the[...]
Is Mind The Gap A TV Show In Disguise?
And we also join her in her mind, as she's dealing with her new reality. Anyway I understand that Jim McCann moved to LA last year at the urging of his agents, he's being repped by a big-time TV agent and looking at Twitter seems to have lots of friends in TV who are all pushing[...]
Rob Guillory Tells Us What He'll Do After Chew…
His style is unique and it is something you marvel at as you turn the pages of a Chew comic fresh off the stands I recently got a chance to sit down with him and just chit chat. So tell us where you are from. Lafayette, Louisiana, where there wasn't much of a comic scene when I[...]
Chew Flash Forwards To Its Final Issue
Chew, by John Layman and Rob Guillory, is due to finish with issue 60 Still around three years away. But in today's issue, as promised by Layman, we flash forward to that scene in a rather amusing and metatextual way. Chew has already run one issue completely out of order, issue 27, which we are still catching[...]
After The Walking Dead
Chew By John Layman and Guillory Nothing like The Walking Dead in any way shape or form But it is about to be a TV show, and it's from Image, and its ongoing, so.. You're a retailer, enjoying the success of The Walking Dead in your store The comics disappear off the shelf, the collections[...]
Beware Fradulent Chew Art Prints On Amazon
Retro", is selling "Chew Art Prints" for $29 on Amazon, and we're asking people NOT to buy them Not only are they not authorized, they are not even art prints The are ripped-up pages of CHEW Omnivore edition, and they are signed by Rob and I, but NOT for the purposes of resale. The story: In[...]
Those Image Solicitations For June 2012 In Full
Don't miss the hilarious climax to Season Two.   CHEW #27 (MR) (W) John Layman (A/CA) Rob Guillory story JOHN LAYMAN art & cover ROB GUILLORY "Space Cakes," Part Two Remember last year when CHEW shocked, confounded and enraged the entire comic book industry and indeed the entire world by printing an issue out of sequence? Here's that issue all[...]
The Best Laid Plans Of Chicken And Men
This is a world where a guy can take a butcher's knife in the face and come back as a robot.' I thought it was pretty obvious I'm not killing him, I'm setting him up to come back as Super Chicken, but no one seems to have figured that out yet," says Layman, who envisions[...]
Hot Comics – The Two Hundred Dollar Club (March 2012)
Selling for $350 in November, recently sold for $290. Chew #1 Slipping again, slightly, down from November's $270 and July's $300 Everyone is holding on for the TV show, and it recently sold for $250. Amazing Spider-Man #300, $121.50 back in November, recently sold for $245. Elseworlds Eighty Page Giant The second print may have harmed this… down[...]
Chewing The Fat At Image Expo WIth Layman And Guillory
John Layman and Rob Guillory ended the second day of Image Comics Expo with a panel on their sleeper hit title, Chew Layman began the panel by preemptively answering the three questions he knew would come up He doesn't know where he came up with the idea for Chew There's no special reason why[...]
John Layman And Rob Guillory Vs The Speculators On Chew
When hearing that, some sign it it to "The Successful Ebay Bidder" At Image Comics Expo, John Layman and Rob Guillory are trying something else. The convention exclusive edition of Chew  will cost $10. Unless you get it signed, personally, to you Then it will cost $5. It's the anti-speculator convention variant Here are a look at the other[...]
Chew Meets Mars Attacks
The writer of Chew, John Layman, and the artist in Dicks, John McCrea are working together on a new version of Mars Attacks from IDW, coming out in June. Both are known for creating absolutely outrageous atrocities poured upon their characters for maximum comic effect, and I have to say, it makes for a rather intriguing mix[...]
First Issue Of Chew Sells For Over $900 – 9.8 And Signed By Layman And Guillory
  Well, the bidding on Friday night's auction for a CGC 9.8 copy of Chew #1 appears to fit that mold. This copy has the signatures of writer John Layman and artist Rob Guillory making it the ultimate authenticated edition. How big was the price tag on this delectable morsel?  Menu price was market value at $909.97. The previous[...]
San Diego Debut: Neil Gaiman In Hero Comics 2011
Scott Campbell or Adam Hughes. Publisher: IDW/Hero initiative Available: Booth #5003 High concept: The new fundraising book features 32 pages of all-new material, including an exclusive "Elephantmen" story by Richard Starkings and Dougie Braithwaite, and a NEW "Chew" story from John Layman and Rob Guillory But MOST importantly, Hero Comics reunites the original "Sandman" creative team of Neil[...]
Glow In The Dark Chew – San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
A wall of Glow In The Dark Chew #19s If you needed any more proof that the nineties are back, here it is The glow in the dark comic cover Made famous by Ghost Rider #15, everyone had a go, Batman #530, Green Lantern #50, Daredevil #321, Aria #4, Sandman Special, Children Of The Voyager #1,[...]
Chew To Become Showtime TV Comedy
We knew that John Layman and Rob Guillory's Chew from Image Comics was heading for the TV sereen in some form or other Well now Deadline's TV Editor Nellie Andreeva confirms that it's to be a half hour comedy series on Showtime. Set in a world where chicken is prohibited after avian flu outbursts, it follows[...]
Music: Chew Harder by Adam WarRock
Do you enjoy the rapping musical stylings of Adam WarRock?  Wish he would work one up  based on the comic Chew from Image, by John Layman and Rob Guillory? Your wish is my command Enjoy Chew Harder… Do you enjoy the rapping musical stylings of Adam WarRock?  Wish he would work one up  based[...]
Speculator Corner: Chew 1, Halcyon 2, Fantastic Four "Three"…
You can buy issue 1 of Halcyon on eBay for 99 cents But if you want issue 2 as well (right), you might have to pay up to $28. Diamond/Diamond UK losing the UK's print run of the second issue of Marc Guggenheim comic for Image has caused a rush on this issue, naturally in[...]
Chew #17 Will Be Late. And There's A Very Good Reason…
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 why… The next issue of Jon Layman and Rob Guillory's hit comic Chew will be a couple of weeks late And here, courtesy of[...]
Comics Sales Trends In 2010
Image scored with a number of eclectic titles from Chew to Morning Glories to Skullkickers to 27, with Walking Dead benefitting greatly from the TV series Scott Pilgrim took over the book charts with all six volumes as the movie hit And then there is Twilight Manga – and the continual success of the likes[...]
First Nine Pages Of Chew #16
Chew #16 from Jon Layman and Rob Guillory ships tomorrow in the US and on Thursday in the UK from Image Comics Chew #16 from Jon Layman and Rob Guillory ships tomorrow in the US and on Thursday in the UK from Image Comics Chew #16 from Jon Layman and Rob Guillory ships[...]
Saturday Runaround – Skulls? You Can Whistle For Them
Could it be worth more? Timelapse of inker Mike Furth inking a pinup for Chew Working on a pinup for John Layman's "Chew", Mike Furth inks over Aris Iliopoulos' pencils in a timelapse video from start to finish Tools used were a Winsor & Newton Series 7 #3 brush, a Deleter Maru dip pen and a series[...]