translation:
After the news of the arrival of a new publishing house, here comes the first title of Bao Publishing. This is Chew, Image comics by John Layman and Rob Guillory, who last November was the best selling book in the usual ranking of Diamond.
Here we report the full press release.
And if not yet enough you will find an exclusive preview for you!
CHEW - A detective novel flavor
The detection range of 2009 marks the debut of BAO Publishing on the scene italiana.Chew editorial, written by John Layman and Rob Guillory, is the series Image of the publisher who did fall in love with the United States. Each issue of the first story arc went out immediately, recording an extraordinary success that has forced the publisher to continue reprinting.
In mid-January of 2010, the story has entered the ranking of the best-selling graphic novel of The New York Times, the seventh posto.In a world marked by a terrible epidemic, the government has banned chicken, boasting avian influence, perhaps has never existed. Among the F line. D.Ä. (Food and Drug Administration) is the Detective Tony Chu, a staff member with a big secret: Tony Chu is a cibopatico. As such it may have psychic sensations from whatever you eat. This means putting the service of the police force for its power and be eating anything, sometimes even having to "taste" pieces of a corpse to find out who killed him!
Chew is an innovative crime-grotesque by the installation: a first reading affects the unusual concept, but the individual plots are resolved in volume by volume, pointing also to a conspiracy of fund that is the true backbone of the saga.
The writer, John Layman, told the New York Times that he had in mind a story that should be long about fifty-sixty registers per month (about a dozen volumes in Italy). He has already written the first thirty and the last ten. "I like to know how to finish the stories I write," he said. "I warned Rob [Guillory, the designer] that will happen when certain things will mean that we are, we are going to get to the end."
Best Series for 2009 independent IGN.com
2009 Best new series for MTV Splash Page
Fourth place in the ranking of the 100 best comics of 2009 for Comic Book Resources
"Who would have thought that a series about a detective who receives psychic sensations from anything you eat could be the most exciting book of 2009? John Layman and Rob Guillory have created a place that makes it so fun to see a return to reality a lot less appetizing "
- Comic Book Resources
"Chew is one of the most original and exciting comics I have read in many years."
- Ed Brubaker (writer of Captain America and Devil)
"Of all the times that John Layman made me vomit, this is my favorite. We feared that all had in Serbian history so funny and nauseating. Oh, and Rob Guillory will go to hell! "
- Matt Fraction (writer of X-Men and Iron-Man)
John Layman and Rob Guillory, along with all the staff BAO, meeting the public to preview CHEW Italian in Milan, during Cartoomics 2010 (FieraMilanoCity, 26 to 28 March 2010)