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Jonathan Ross and Frankie Boyle join comic book project

By Cheryl Mullin on May 4, 10 07:21 PM

Funnymen Jonathan Ross and Frankie Boyle are reportedly writing comic strips for a new magazine from the creator of Kick-Ass.
Ross, who's wife Jane co-wrote the screenplay for Kick-Ass, says he has created a vampire storyline for new adult mag CLiNT which is due to be published from September.

CLiNT is being launched by Kick-Ass writer Mark Millar, who will also unveil his follow-up story when it is serialised in the new magazine.
There are already plans to for Kick-Ass 2: Balls To The Wall, to be turned into a movie with a scheduled 2012 cinema release.
Ross - who leaves his BBC1 and Radio 2 shows this summer - has long been a comic fan and has made TV documentaries about his passion. jonathan ross.jpg
He also created and published his own graphic novel Turf with artist Tommy Lee Edwards.
Ross and Boyle - who recently left the line-up of panel show Mock The Week - are the first of a range of high-profile figures lined up for the future of the new magazine.
Millar said: "This is The Eagle for the 21st Century. I've worked on everything from Spider-Man comics to the Iron Man movie for Marvel in New York, but what really excites me is the gap I see in the UK market at the moment.
"There are absolutely no comic-books aimed at 16-30-year-old guys and I think CLiNT has potential to make an enormous impact, bringing a new type of magazine to a new generation. frankie boyle.jpg
"I want this to be edgy and irreverent, the kind of thing guys will be passing around lunch-halls and common rooms, and there's nobody I'd rather have creating new characters for CLiNT than Jonathan and Frankie.
"They're both brilliant writers and will surprise a lot of people with this stuff.
"The last thing you'd expect from Jonathan, for example, is a vampire strip, but he pulls it off amazingly."
Ross, Boyle and Millar's stories will run for the first six months of the magazine.
"We have the most insane line-up of creators ready to come in and join us," said Millar.
"You'd be amazed how many people who work in film and television want to be comic book writers."
The magazine will be published on September 2.

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