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Jeffrey Whitelaw talked to Chris Roberson at ECCC for Bleeding Cool; Saturday at the ECCC Vertigo: New Blood panel, in a story that is familiar to Vertigo readers, it was announced that IZombie is ending Bleeding Cool has a reputation for announcing the cancellation of Vertigo titles at comic conventions but I was curious about the[...]

He said that working with Scott Snyder has been great. The panel quickly hyped were the four new Vertigo books that came out in February Saucer Country getting the strongest response from the crowd. Adam Hughes approached Willingham wanting to do covers for Fables, Willingham wasn't about to kick James Jean of the book so he offered[...]

The only book that, reportedly, suffers from the logo is Swamp Thing, and there's a lot else going on that cover as well. As wiuth the Green Lantern movie banner, the Vertigo books also run the banner, but branded to their books.   Although one book does escape, the first issue of Fairest I understand there was an[...]

For the past two years, David Lapham has terrified horror fans with his work at Avatar Press, delivering taut, visceral tales of bloodshed and brutality

C'mon, Diane, use blackmail or something… PageWatch: The first page of upcoming Vertigo anthology oneshot Mystery In Space short Transmission from Andy Diggle and Davide Gianfelice.   This is Computo the Comic Link Conqueror speaking I come for your women But for now I merely collate comic-related bits and pieces online One day I will rule[...]

Which gives her a great excuse to talk craft with ex DC Comics / Vertigo Editor turned freelance writer Brandon Montclare And happy to share their observations with Bleeding Cool's Think About The Ink video blogs…. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJz8yLMZ4i0[/youtube] While I've been seeing a film I'm not aloud to talk about, Grace Randolph has been in Midtown Comics[...]

The latest edition of Previews is just around the bend, and we're giving you a head start at looking at the March 2012 solicitation artwork for Avatar

Blastr have been given the news by DC that Mystery In Space will be returning as a DC Vertigo oneshot in May, in the manner of the recent Strange Adventures title Though hopefully without a large Green Lantern banner on the top. And the creator involved include Mike Allred, Paul Pope, Nnedi Okorafor, Michael Wm[...]

This month sees DC Vertigo launch four new comics, Fairest, Saucer Country, The Deadwardians and Dominique Laveau: Voodoo Child, in something that no one else but me is calling the Vertigo Relaunch. And while it may not be as glamourous and newsworthy as the New 52, DC are still doing what they can to back the[...]

We know from the publicity that DC Vertigo are publishing graphic novel adaptaions of the Millenium Trilogy, with Denise Mina and Leonardo Manco adapting the first book The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo into two parts And in April they'll be publishing a free teaser of the first graphic novel. But Bleeding Cool (alone it seems)[...]

Scott Snyder is a writer who came to fame working on American Vampire Stephen King for DC Vertigo But then he was picked to write Detective Comics and then Batman in the New 52 He's also writing the previously-Vertigoed Swamp Thing. But this week's Batman #5 is vertigo on a different level. Back in the seventies, Dave[...]

But the decision to launch four new titles from DC Vertigo in March does give it a slightly relaunchy feel And, from the DC blog, are the four second issue covers for April for Saucer Country, The New Deadwardians, Dominique Laveau: Voodoo Child and Fairest. They aren't calling it a relaunch Because it[...]

DC  Comics has confirmed the story that crime thriller writer Denise Mina and Batman Noel artist Leonardo Manco will be adapting the Vertigo graphic novel version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, also mentioning that Lee Bermejo has done the cover (above) and Andrea Mutti will also be on art. Mina has already talked about[...]

It was an apocryphal tale, one that Tom DeFalco has denied. But at the time it was rather popular. That the editor-in-chief of Marvel had declared that

It is unlikely a book like Animal Man would have caught on quite so quickly if there weren't plenty of copies for people to try when they read the rewards. In March, DC's mature readers imprint, Vertigo, is having a mini-relaunch of its own with four new series starting, Fairest, Saucer Country, The New Deadwardians and[...]

March sees a flurry of new series from DC Vertigo… but it seems there are more to come. In an podcast interview with Orbital Comics (whose half price sale starts today), Scott Snyder revealed that he is writing a new sci fi mini series for DC/Vertigo for Joe The Barbarian artist Sean Murphy planned for publication[...]

When Steve Pugh drew Animal Man in the nineties,written by Jamie Delano, it was some of the best work of his life. Page after page with ink and paint

Vertigo has announced a new eight issue mini-series by Dan Abnett and INJ Culbard (HP Lovecraft's At The Mountains Of Madness) called The New Deadwardians, a zombie/vampire detective story set in an England in 1900, in the last year of the Victorian era and on the cusp of the beginning of the Edwardian era, one[...]

Bastardized is a new horror series by Joe Harris and Ethan Van Sciver, the upcoming Fury Of Firestorm creative team, to be published by DC Comics next

Tim Pilcher used to work for DC Vertigo back in the day when they used to run a UK office. One project he worked on, that was announced as coming from Vertigo, but never saw the light of day was Rites Of Alchemy by Dick Foreman and Paul Johnson Three issues were completed, a fourth was[...]

The Invisibles Omnibus collecting The Invisibles Volume 1 #1-25, Volume 2 #1-22, Volume 3 #12-1 and the short story from Vertigo Winters Edge #1 All written by Grant Morrison, with art from the likes of Steve Yeowell, Jilll Thompson, Dennis Cramer, Chris Weston, John Ridgway, Steve Parkhouse, Kim DeMulder, Paul Johnson, Phil Jimenez,[...]

There has been some concern expressed over the appearance of John Constantine on the John Cassidy cover of  upcoming trade paperback The Devil You Know

Josh Kopin reports for Bleeding Cool from New York Comic Con. The Vertigo panel began with a search for editor Karen Berger and, when she could not be found, Shelley Bond and Will Dennis got started by introducing the various panelists. Karen walked in during the middle of the introductions, made a joke at her own expense,[...]

Writer Paul Cornell has elaborated on one of Vertigo's NYCC announcements today — an ongoing series by Cornell and artist Ryan Kelly about a presidential candidate who is 'abducted by aliens'. It's called Saucer Country. It's about Arcadia Alvarado, the Governor of New Mexico, who, on the eve of announcing that she's running for President…[...]

DC Vertigo announced that they were adapting the Millenium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson as a series of graphic novels, two per novel, running through the next few years. Well, it appears the project may have originated, or the production is being shared, with French Publisher Dupuis. The publisher has announced that French comics creators Sylvain Runberg, writer[...]

They may deny it. But we all know that the new TV show Once Upon A Time on ABC is a ripoff of the unmade Fables TV adaptation that ABC were pursuing

About comic books – how she had just been talking to Vertigo about a project How the sequel to Daughter Of Smoke And Bone is coming along, although possibly not as quickly as her editor Kate thought it was Kate told us she was hoping for a draft in January, Laini told us April… and[...]

Six years ago, Vertigo's hit series Fables was being developed by NBC as an ongoing TV series, but only made it to scripts In 2008, ABC stated that they had picked up the rights for a TV pilot of Fables Writers were attached, David Semel was to direct And then… nothing, Now ABC are putting[...]

Today, DC/Vertigo publish the We3 hardcover by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely And, in order to justify the hardcover price, they have added ten new story pages and a load of sketches in the back. Four pages have been added to the first issue, giving us a new introduction to Doctor Rosanne Berry, in which we[...]

It was quite a shock, no one seemed to have seen it coming. This week's announcement suddenly seems less shocking as a result. That publisher RW Edizioni is to take the Italian language rights away from Planeta De Agostini and start publishing DC titles from January 2012, under their Lion imprint, including the DCU, Vertigo and Mad[...]