Welcome to the pretty-much-mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. A run around the day before and the day ahead. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. The 10 most-read stories yesterday "What Is DC Comics' 5G?" The Story So Far… So Why Did Dan DiDio Leave DC Comics Anyway? Jim Lee Awakens […]
Berger Books, Karen Berger's imprint from Dark Horse Comics is publishing a new Peter Milligan comic book, Tomorrow, a new five-issue series for February, drawn by Jesús Hervas with colours by James Devlin. In the wake of devastation, musical prodigy Oscar Fuentes is separated from his twin sister Cira. Without the support of each other […]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Zane and Bette avoid being captured by the police and leave the hospital. They regroup back at the bar Zane frequents, and he has more questions about Bette and what she knows about Xavier. This puts Zane on the trail of another attendant of Van Horn's party: an actor named Douglass. Incognegro: Renaissance […]
Dark Horse has sent us the trailer for their new series Mata Hari by Emma Beeby and Ariela Kristantina. The first issue hits shelves February 21st and can be ordered at your local comics shops now. MATA HARI #1 Writer: Emma Beeby | Artist: Ariela Kristantina | Colorist: Pat Masioni Editor: Karen Berger | Cover […]
Rosilyne Bean reported from New York Comic Con 2017: At the Introduction to Berger Books panel at NYCC 2017, Karen Berger shared information about the new titles incoming from her team-up with Dark Horse Comics. Accompanying her were several writers and artists of the forthcoming series. Hungry Ghosts, written by Anthony Bourdain and Joel Rose, […]
Bleeding Cool reporter Joe Glass writes: At SDCC, founding editor of DC's Vertigo Karen Berger is on hand to explain the first projects revealed as part of her new Dark Horse imprint, Berger Books. Berger says she's really happy to be here, and happy to be back in comics after taking a few years out. Panel […]
Time was, Karen Berger was a name synonymous with Vertigo and DC's game-changing slate of creator owned projects released via the imprint within the major publisher. After all, she founded the imprint in 1993 and she is the editor that made the likes of Sandman, Y: The Last Man, Preacher, Fables, Lucifer and iZombie a […]
Welcome to This Day in Pop Culture History, a daily look at important events, birthdays, and other oddities in pop culture! History is important, and we aim to educate here at Bleeding Cool, so without further ado, here are some things that have happened on February 26: 1919- The Grand Canyon is made a national park. […]
In April 2012 I first heard rumours that Karen Berger, then a recently demoted Executive Editor at DC Comics, was planning to resign after over thirty years at the publisher. In December that year, she did just that. There were plenty of rumours about what she would do next. A career working on the knife […]
The announcement at Image Expo of the new comic book Surgeon X saw editor Karen Berger step out onto a comic industry stage for the first time in a long while, and caused all manner of flappiness at DC Comics. But the book by Sara Kenney, John Watkiss, James Devlin and Jared K Fletcher is […]
By Nikolai Fomich Go to any major comic book news site and any given week you will find articles about the rise of female creators, the depiction of female characters in comics, or the importance of female heroes. Never before has more mainstream attention been given to women working in comics and women as a […]
We haven't heard too much from Karen Berger since she left DC Comics, where she had worked for decades, running the Vertigo imprint and forming it in her own image. And she had been at the birth of John Constantine in Swamp Thing. So when Slate published an article about the state of the character […]
The rumours about a Judith Regan/Karen Berger line of graphic novels coming out of Regan Arts have picked up pace overnight, though there has been no comment from any involved parties. I was told however by another New York publishing source that several graphic novels have already been acquired for publication but other creators who believed […]
Last year, Karen Berger walked away from DC Comics after thirty-two years. During that period, she rose to the Executive Editor of the Vertigo line which she created establishing a long line of mature readers comic books and graphic novels, including Y The Last Man, Hellblazer, Preacher, Fables, Kill Your Boyfriend, Pride Of Baghdad and Invisibles, […]
By Erik Grove Women like comic books. That shouldn't be surprising to anyone because comics are amazing. There's nothing inherently masculine or feminine about words and pictures telling a story. Being surprised by women liking comics is like being surprised that women like movies or like books or like music. Still, the majority of readers […]
Introducing a new Comics Column, Unsung Masterpieces, in its first installment: Milligan & Fegredo's Enigma By David Dissanayake Warren Ellis once wrote that, "American comics are hugely eager to put the future behind them. Last week's books are done and dusted, no matter what. Got to clear the shelves, got to clear space for this […]
Some senior comic book figures are rather happy that the news about DC Comics Editorial moving to Burbank happened when it did. I'm told both the announcement and the meeting with staff was brought forward as a result of media interest in the news – which means for people not wanting to move coasts, they […]
During the reorganisation of DC Comics into DC Entertainment, much of the production side of the comics publisher was moved from New York to Burbank in California, home to its parent company Warner Bros. There was much speculation at the time of an eventual move west for everyone but in the end, while digital and […]
The Sandman: Overture by Neil Gaiman and JH Williams III, will begin on Oct. 30, and be published bi-monthly, so says DC Comics to the New York Times. Other new projects include Hinterkind by Ian Edginton, which focuses on a post-apocalyptic world in which the creatures of myth and legend have returned The Discipline by […]
I first heard after San Diego Comic Con that DC Vertigo's Executive Editor Karen Berger was planning to leave DC Comics, though it was heavily denied at the time. And then the denials became a confirmation. The reaction of many seem to be that this is a culmination in a death of a thousand cuts […]
