Gary Gray, our Senior Scottish Correspondent, writes; While this may have been physically the last talk at the Stripped stand of the Edinburgh
vertigo Archives
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is running a retailer membership drive. After announcing DCBS and Things From Another World as their first comic store
New series Collider by by Simon Oliver and Robbi Rodriguez for DC Vertigo has been renamed from the second issue as Federal Bureau of Physics.
Why?
It's down to an existing graphic novel, a live action webseries on YouTube and a planned indie sci-fi movie All on the central concept of six strangers transported across time to a[...]
By Hannah Means-Shannon
As Rich Johnston reported recently, sales are up on the Vertigo series The Wake by Scott Snyder and Sean Murphy Generally speaking, the series has been liked and noted among new series, especially because of the particularly strong team-up between two creators who have their own cult followings When I read[...]
By Hannah Means-Shannon
When the covers for the new Vertigo Defy initiative on Collider and Trillium were revealed at Wondercon this spring, the first thing people noticed about Collider was PINK Something between dayglo and neon, really, but offset by black and yellow, it couldn't have popped more It was a strong, evocative statement for[...]
Cameron Hatheway writes; The Manhattan Projects #13 by Jonathan Hickman Glad to know that several pairs of Vans checkered slip-ons were recycled into
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4MfbZWvnOc Aaron Haaland of Florida's A Comic Shop writes; Hey Fandom! I'm back with some New Comics Now including my
Bex Cook and Dan Oakley write for Bleeding Cool with photos by Joseph Kyle Schmidt:
The Vertigo panel this year was packed with details of current and upcoming releases, a large parts of which was taken up with Fables content, the comic not having its own panel this year and it's creator Bill Willingham being absent[...]
Playing a little catch-up on the con day's events, here's some higher quality artwork for some of the DC and Vertigo news we've told you about today Click for the biggie, as they say in England.
#gallery-1 {
margin: auto;
}
#gallery-1 .gallery-item {
float: left;
margin-top: 10px;
text-align: center;
width: 25%;
}
#gallery-1 img {
border: 2px solid #cfcfcf;
}
#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {
margin-left: 0;
}
/* see gallery_shortcode() in[...]
Bex Cook and Dan Oakley report from the DC Vertigo panel… A full report to follow but just for now, the cover of Fables #134 shows Bigby Wolf and Boy Blue Apparently thus is not a dream sequence or anything like that, and does suggest the heralding of the return of Boy Blue to the[...]
It's a small mention in the Vertigo Defy preview book at San Diego Comic Con.
Travis Pelkie noticed He emailed;
In Shelley Bond's intro, she goes on about how Vertigo is still awesome and all, and as part of that mentions that certain old Vertigo stalwarts were going to be doing Vertigo books.
Like Grant Morrison.
Have I missed[...]
A quick look at Lee Bermejo's upcoming Vertigo comic, Suiciders… courtesy of his rather wonderful blog.
A quick look at Lee Bermejo's upcoming Vertigo comic, Suiciders… courtesy of his rather wonderful blog.
A quick look at Lee Bermejo's upcoming Vertigo comic, Suiciders… courtesy of his rather wonderful blog.
A quick look at Lee Bermejo's upcoming[...]
Some quick images from this year's Vertigo Preview book called Defy As you can see, the cover and two interior pages are given to The Sandman: Overture, a six-issue series by Neil Gaiman and J H Williams III But we may not see it before 2014 as the last image shows the publishing schedule through December 2013[...]
One of the earliest Vertigo OGNs is coming back into print from Dynamite Nick Barrucci tells us that Sean Phillips is remastering the whole thing, and you can check out several pages below.
Dynamite is proud to announce that The Heart of the Beast, the hauntingly evocative graphic novel written by Dean Motter and Judith Dupré, and[...]
We're getting Death, Desire, Despair, Delirium, Destruction and Destiny as well as The Corinthian, Merv Pumpkinhead and more…
That and full details on the new comics, Coffin Hill, The Hinterkind and The Witching Hour, here are Vertigo's solicitations for October 2013.
THE SANDMAN: OVERTURE #1
Written by NEIL GAIMAN
Art by J.H WILLIAMS III
Cover A by J.H[...]
The New York Times article on Vertigo managed to miss out all sorts of pertinent information on the new Vertigo that the DC Comics blog has just backed up. With details on all the new comics series And looks like we were right on Toby Litt… and is Witching Hour going to be Kelly Sue DeConnick's[...]
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.
Aaron Haaland who attended the DC Retailer Roadshow talked about this, and how Vertigo comics got him laid (but he never got his Sandman books back).
He reports that Jim Lee said that the new Executive Editor, Shelly Bond taking over, and explained her attitude to the new position – she did a lot of great[...]
Stupidly.
After Machine Teen, you drew a bunch of short projects and fill-ins with more Hysteria, the mystery series Umbra, a short western story for The Wicked West, a couple issues of The Exterminators at Vertigo, and even some Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Did you enjoy drawing such a variety of different comics and do[...]
Cameron Hatheway writes; 100 Bullets: Brother Lono #1 by Dave Johnson ¡Ay, caramba! Such a delightfully pulpy cover by the Reverend Dave Johnson. While
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 at[...]
Bond states that part of the event's intention is to raise awareness of The Unwritten amongst Fables readers.
The Vertigo session introduced the new 100 Bullets miniseries, Brother Lono, by Azzarello & Risso Scott Snyder and Sean Murphy's horror series about underwater adventure The Wake, which Bond described as making "Orca look like Finding Nemo" Collider[...]
If you missed the first one then you can find that here.
If that's not enough, we also have an extensive chat with Bill Willingham (Fables, Shadowpact, Elementals) about his career, the current state of Vertigo, Chris Roberson, Once Upon A Time, his writing process, and the idea behind Fabletown & Beyond.
To get in touch, discuss[...]
I understand that Sarah Litt, recently an editor at DC working on Vertigo graphic novels, then moving to the west coast to work on DC Digital titles, including books such as Django Unchained, Smallville, Superman Beyond, Superman Beyond and Strange Adventures, has left the publisher.
And, as of today, has moved to work as an editor[...]
One familiar name who I was surprised to see in DC's editorial credits for the most recent issue of Earth Two was Mike Cotton. As editor of the book.
Louis Falcetti writes; I like the quiet epics. The stories that explode and dazzle but remain under the radar, even when bearing the greasy fingerprints
Yesterday, Bleeding Cool told you that Shelly Bond as the newly appointed Executive Editor at Vertigo would now be reporting into Hank Kanalz, a line of management that previously held by Editor-In-Chief, Bob Harras.
What we didn't realise is what this would mean for Bob.
DC issued the following press release.
"DC Entertainment announced today the promotion and[...]
Karen Berger, as Executive Editor of Vertigo Comics and Senior VP of DC Comics used to report in directly to Publisher and President Paul Levitz After the reorganisation that saw Levitz step down, she instead reported to the DC Editor In Chief, Bob Harras, an effective demotion, and one of a thousand cuts that Vertigo[...]
Well, it seems calm has been restored.
DC have announced by press release that Shelly Bond has been promoted from Editor to Executive Editor of Vertigo, Will Dennis from Editor to Group Editor and Mark Doyle from Associate Editor to Editor.
Shelly Bond, neé Shelly Roeberg before her marriage to artist Philip Bond, worked on Hellblazer, Sandman[...]
Novels can do societies, but triligies can give the reader a real idea of expanse
In Ghosts #1 from DC Vertigo, Litt wrote Neil Gaiman's Deadboy Detectives Part One But where will the rest end up?
I'm told to look for a new comic, reviving an old DC trademark, The Witching Hour Vertigo revived that once before[...]