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Coincidentally or not, they immediately issued a press release announcing that Karen Berger, Executive Editor of DC Vertigo and Senior VP at DC Comics, was stepping down after twenty years at the company. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Karen Berger Steps Down From DC Comics Three quarters of an hour ago I informed DC Comics that I was planning[...]

She's the best, & I'll miss her gentleness & sanity at VertigoDC – Neil Gaiman I've long said there are two or three people to whom I owe my career Karen Berger is one of them Wow – Phil Jimenez There are a few points I want to consider. Karen Berger ranks with Stan Lee and William Gaines[...]

Three quarters of an hour ago I informed DC Comics that I was planning to run a story about rumours of impending redundancies/resignations at the publisher. Coincidentally or not, they immediately issued a press release announcing that Karen Berger, Executive Editor of DC Vertigo and Senior VP at DC Comics, was stepping down after twenty years[...]

Punk Rock Jesus is concluding next month by Sean Murphy for DC Vertigo A thirty-two page comic book that actually was a thirty-two page comic book, the six issue collection will be larger than most ten issue collections these days But that's just not enough for the French market. At the Paris Comics Expo recently, author[...]

Dan Didio has written; "We're supremely proud of Vertigo's HELLBLAZER, one of the most critically-acclaimed series we've published Issue #300 concludes this chapter of Constantine's epic, smoke-filled story in style and with the energy, talent and creativity fans have come to expect from Peter Milligan, Giuseppe Camuncoli and Stefano Landini And no one should worry that[...]

From the new Dial H, out this week... looking at previous Dial H incarnations and inhabitants. In 2007, DC Comics published League Of Extraordinary

"Karen Berger asked me to do some more Invisibles for the anniversary of Vertigo next year, and I thought about it for five minutes and just didn't want to do it It was the same, when I tried to go back to Justice League and I did the Justice League Classified book which was like[...]

The one from DC Vertigo, which has been sending out press copies before NYCC, and the one from Dupuis, which has released the following preview And despite telling the same story, they blook and feel so very different And it's likely hat the Japanese version, also licensed separately, will be very different still… But now we[...]

More from Vertigo, more from Jeff Lemire Sounds good: Arriving in 2013, Vertigo will publish TRILLIUM, a limited series written and illustrated by the incomparable Jeff Lemire (Sweet Tooth, Animal Man, Justice League Dark, Essex County Trilogy, Ghosts). We asked Lemire to share some thoughts about the new series and here's what he said: "As Sweet Tooth[...]

At the NYCC Vertigo panel today, Karen Berger and Scott Snyder announced The Wake, a 12 issue sf/horror comic by Snyder and artist Sean Murphy, which takes place in the depths of the ocean The series will begin in Spring 2013. At the NYCC Vertigo panel today, Karen Berger and Scott Snyder announced The Wake,[...]

Ryan Kelly, artist on DC Vertigo's Saucer Country, and part-time Minneapolis College of Art and Design tutor, has been tweeting about an issue that rather affects comic book freelance creators; You're now looking at a guy with no health insurance #imfucked I have #trigeminalneuralgia, medications, appointments w/ doctors and MN axed my health insurance because I have[...]

Vertigo hasn't had the greatest reputation for sci-fi comics V For Vendetta was, Transmetropolitan had to be inherited from another imprint, Helix, and the rather wonderful DMZ and Spaceman have been and gone And right now they have no sci-fi book on their… books. That will change next year Bleeding Cool writer Colin O' Mahoney reporting[...]

Fans asking Gail Simone about the possibility of her doing a new DC/Veritgo series on her Tumblr page received an answer that sounds quite a bit like

Louis Falcetti writes for Bleeding Cool; The most recent Fables spinoff, Fairest, has been until now a somewhat insular affair. It's not that it hasn't

It was denied by people who knew better, and later we ran the stories of Sandman Zero being published by DC Vertigo, and Tim Hunter becoming part of the New 52 But is it possible there was more than Tim Hunter? Could Matthew, the Dreaming and a certain castle be on their way? Or is this[...]

It's all too appropriate for words and I've already spent too many. LEAVE THEM HANGING ON BY THE SKIN OF THEIR SCALPS SCALPED #60 marks the end of the road for Jason Aaron's landmark Vertigo series, his best and most mature work, the most violent and most emotional This is the book that *really* launched Aaron's career,[...]

Batman #0 continues to pick up advance reorders from retailers, twice in two weeks which means I think we can rely on a very quick sell out and second

It was Jock's beautiful art that intrigued me, followed by Vertigo's label that promised some good-ol' explicit content Jason Aaron and R.M Guéra were two individuals I'd never heard of before, but since it was a Vertigo title, I was willing to take a chance and shelled-out the $2.99 If it sucked, at least I[...]

Sean Murphy who's already produced gorgeous, genre bending work for creators like Grant Morrison (Joe The Barbarian) and Si Spurrier (Hellblazer: City of Demons) is now writing and illustrating (inks and all!) his own creator owned series for Vertigo and it's one of the best comics I've read this year. Don't be thrown by the title[...]

Bleeding Cool have been previewing it for a couple of years, here's a reminder of some of the art; And then from Vertigo, there is Ghosts, an anthology of spooky stories, also with a Hallowe'en market in mind "Stories spotlight a space heist on a ghost ship, a spirit who wants to play synthesizer in[...]

It's the The Invisibles Omnibus from DC/Vertigo. 1536 pages comprising the three volumes, Invisibles vol 1 #1-25, Invisibles vol 2 #1-22 and Invisibles vol #12-1. I'm told that it is being printed all in one hardcover volume, it will have sewn binding rather than glued binding, for readability ease… …and it's at the printers now. How many trees will[...]

The New Deadwardians has rapidly become my favourite Vertigo title (which usually means it will be cancelled shortly), written by Dan Abnett whose work, despite the praise it often receives, I haven't personally enjoyed for a long time But New Deadwardians is aces It smacks of a high concept 2000AD strip given room to breathe[...]

Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer have done a video interview with Wired, during which Gaiman discusses some of the background surrounding the new Sandman

It's with this in mind that I tell you to avoid the Vertigo comics panel in the future. Why? After all, next year is going to be Vertigo's 20th anniversary, surely there will be some special things in store for those attending SDCC 2013 Maybe so, but if this year's panel is the way that these[...]

Thursday night after DC announced that there is new Sandman coming in 2013 from Neil Gaiman and JH Williams III, they issued further information and a

 And indeed, Rich's report this morning that Sandman would be returning with a new project from Neil Gaiman and JH Williams was confirmed on the Vertigo panel tonight with a video announcement from Gaiman and more art and info from DC. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: A New Sandman Series By Neil Gaiman And JH Williams III? Now, seemingly[...]

Gaiman made the surprise announcement, via video, at DC Entertainment's Vertigo panel at this year's San Diego Comic-Con  Karen Berger, Executive Editor of Vertigo, then revealed that Gaiman is paired with artist, JH Williams III (BATWOMAN) for the series, who appeared on stage to an already stunned and elated crowd THE SANDMAN mini-series will be[...]

As Bleeding Cool told you this morning, there's new Sandman coming in 2013 from Neil Gaiman and JH Williams III.  Here's the official announcement:  

Dean Butters reports from San Diego Comic Con that it looks like the cast of the DC Vertigo comic Books Of Magic, Tim Hunter and friends, will be joining the DC New 52 title Justice League Dark Books creator Neil Gaiman has recently approved the addition. Man, it looks like DC and Neil Gaiman are getting[...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL5ISC6crqU Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida writes; Whoa! Walking Dead #100 is intense. I'm not going to