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Vertigo At The Bristol Comic Expo – An Unwritten Prequel Graphic Novel Has Been… Written

Posted on May 12, 2013 by Rich Johnston

Kyle Rogers writes from the Bristol Comic Expo, happening this weekend. Panellists: Shelly Bond + Mark Buckingham Mark Buckingham met Karen Berger doing portfolio reviews at a con, and she offered him work a year later. His first DC work …

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Pop Culture Hounding Bill Willingham On Elementals, Fables, Vertigo, Once Upon A Time And Chris Roberson

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Rich Johnston

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] by Chris Thompson It’s a big episode this week, so don’t say we didn’t warn you … First up, Taylor & I take a look at Elephantmen #46 by Richard Starkings, Shaky Kane …

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Sarah Litt Moves From DC Vertigo To Dynamite

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Rich Johnston

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 …

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Mike Cotton Joins DC Comics As Editor

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Rich Johnston

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. Ex-editor of Wizard Magazine who was there until almost its dying …

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Review: Fairest #11

Posted on January 12, 2013 by Rich Johnston

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 of The Big 2 on the pay stubs. Garth Ennis has been crafting a quiet …

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Bob Harras Gets Promoted To Senior VP, Hank Kanalz Gets Vertigo

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Rich Johnston

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 …

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New Exec Editor Of Vertigo To Report To Youngblood #1 Dialoguer

Posted on December 20, 2012 by Rich Johnston

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 …

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Shelly Bond Promoted To Executive Editor Of Vertigo

Posted on December 19, 2012 by Rich Johnston

The conversations I had a couple of weeks ago were of the “Shelly has been waiting for this for twenty years. If Will gets it instead, there will be blood. If Mark does, nuclear fallout” variety. Well, it seems calm …

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DC Vertigo Brings Back The Witching Hour For Dead Boy Detectives

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Rich Johnston

On Front Row, on BBC Radio 4 this week, novelist Toby Litt told the host about writing a comic book for DC Comics based on characters created by Neil Gaiman. Talking about trilogies, he said; I was doing a comic …

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Monday Trending Topics: Karen Berger’s Departure And The End Of An Era At DC Comics

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Mark Seifert

One of the comics industry’s most important and influential editors has left DC Comics: 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, …

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#Vertigone?

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Rich Johnston

I’ve worked with a legend for 25 years. 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 …

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Karen Berger Steps Down From DC Comics

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Rich Johnston

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 …

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The French Punk Rock Jesus To Be Ten Pages Extra, And In Hardcover

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Rich Johnston

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. …

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Things You Won’t See In A John Constantine Comic Book Again

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Rich Johnston

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 …

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Did China Mieville Have A Little Dig At Alan Moore?

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Rich Johnston

From the new Dial H, out this week… looking at previous Dial H incarnations and inhabitants. In 2007, DC Comics published League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier, which featured the Golliwog. Which caused quite the fuss. Could that have …

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Grant Morrison Turned Down “Before Invisibles”

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Rich Johnston

We’ve had DK2. We’re getting Before Watchmen. We’re looking forward to Sandman Zero. But what about… The Invisibles? At the previously referred to Dundee Comics Day, Grant Morrison told the crowd how he’d already been asked. Laura Sneddon reports for …

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Preview: The Girl With A Dragon Tattoo – The French Version

Posted on October 16, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Bleeding Cool has been one of the few media sources constantly pointing out that there are multiple upcoming comic book adaptations of The  Girl With A Dragon Tattoo, and comparing them. The one from DC Vertigo, which has been sending …

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NYCC Vertigo Panel: Jeff Lemire’s Trillium

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Mark Seifert

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 …

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