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Wolverine And The PemeX-Men

Posted on February 3, 2013 by Rich Johnston

Earlier this week, Mexico suffered an accident in a building of Pemex, a national oil company, and a fellow with a familiar hairstyle arrived to appeared to help the victims. Which gave the media an excuse not to concentrate on …

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A Mexican Home For Transformers, GI Joe, Walking Dead And Spawn Comics

Posted on October 7, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Here’s how it is being divvied up. The Mexican printing company has won the license to publish Spanish language versions of Boom! books by Mark Waid Irredeemable, Incorruptible and The Traveler. It also has the rights to the GI JOE …

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How Marvel And DC Are Sounding Greek To Mexico

Posted on August 30, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Bleeding Cool has run reports on how the Mexican media conglomerate Televisa, the largest such company in Latin America, published both Marvel and DC comics in the country. The company is also a powerful political force, think News International in …

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DC Comics Returns To Mexico – Holding The Line At 29 Pesos

Posted on July 8, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Editorial Televisa is the new Mexican publisher of DC Comics titles, and their first two publications come out this week – Superman/Action Comics and Batman/The Dark Knight. This is the first DC publication in Mexico since a year ago, when …

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David Finch Hospitalised In Mexico

Posted on March 31, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Batman: The Dark Knight artist/co-writer was meant to be attending the La Mole comic convention in Mexico City this weekend. However, after arriving on Thursday he reportedly suffered serious food poisoning, and was taken to hospital. Mexican radio and the …

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Editorial Vid Drop DC Comics In Mexico

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Last week, Editorial Vid, the publisher of DC Comics in Mexico announced they no longer had the rights to do so and had ceased publication. This has been confirmed by general manager Paco Jimenez, who has left the company after …

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Marvel Comics To Recruit Artists From Mexico

Posted on October 23, 2011 by Rich Johnston

Mexican comics news blog La Covacha confirmed a couple of days ago that Senior VP Talent, C.B. Cebulski, would visit Mexico in November in search of local artists for Marvel Comics. Humberto Ramos and friends are organizing a comics convention …

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Top Cat Trailer Courtesy Of Mexico

Posted on July 23, 2011 by Rich Johnston

I was never sure exactly why a policeman was allowed to spend so much of his time obsessed with the affairs of a cat. Maybe this film will help clarify things a little. Thank you Mexico.

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