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Swipe File: Chew And Madam Xanadu

It almost sounds as if this should be some kind of portmanteau title. Madame Xanachew?

Anyway, the new Madame Xanadu #28 from DC/Vertigo caught a few people's attention. Why? Here is the solicitation;

MADAME XANADU #28. For Charlotte Blackwood, taste turns into a nightmare when every time she eats a meal, she gets a vision of what her food went through before arriving on her plate! Can Madame Xanadu help get her off this bad trip?

Does that remind anyone on…

CHEW #1. Chu is a cop with a secret. A weird secret. Tony Chu is Cibopathic, which means he gets psychic impressions from whatever he eats. It also means he's a hell of a detective, as long as he doesn't mind nibbling on the corpse of a murder victim to figure out whodunit, and why. It's a dirty job, and Tony has to eat terrible things in the name of justice. And if that wasn't bad enough, the government has figured

Here, let's have some pages;

Swipe File: Chew And Madam Xanadu

Swipe File: Chew And Madam Xanadu

Swipe File: Chew And Madam Xanadu Swipe File: Chew And Madam Xanadu

Chew was famously pitched to Vertigo, who passed, before being picked up by Image. A publishing success, it is currently in the process of becoming a TV show. Interesting two of the people at Vertigo who were pitched the book include both Madame Xanadu's editor and associate editor …

In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree. They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, coincidences or works of the lightbox. We trust you, the reader, to make that judgment yourself.  If you are unable to do so, please return your eyes to their maker before any further damage is done. The Swipe File doesn't judge, it's interested more in the process of creation, how work influences other work, how new work comes from old, and sometimes how the same ideas emerge simultaneously, as if their time has just come. The Swipe File was named after the advertising industry habit where writers and artist collect images and lines they admire to inspire them in their work. It was swiped from the Comic Journal who originally ran this column, as well as the now defunct Swipe Of The Week website.


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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