IDW Publishing, the company responsible for the 30 Days of Night, Star Trek and Transformers comic books, are about to release Presidential Material, two separate “graphic biographies” on presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and John McCain.

According to IDW’s promotional site the books are “painstakingly researched and beautifully drawn depictions of the two men vying for what is arguably the most important job in the world.”

So, no Obama slamming McCain into a wall of concrete then? We’re a little disappointed.

This does, however, prove that comic books are officially mainstream, even if the majority of their fanboy readers are still on the margins of dominant society. IDW claims comic books are a “true American art form” — but they would say that. (So would we.)