Vertigo is an imprint of the American comic-book publisher DC Comics. In the Publishing Industry, an imprint can refer to two different things It can mean a Brand name under which a work is published The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company Its books are marketed to a late-teen and adult audience, and may contain graphic violence, substance abuse, frank (but not explicit) depictions of sexuality, profanity, and controversial subjects. Although many of its releases are in the horror/fantasy genre, it also publishes works dealing with crime, social satire, speculative fiction, and biography. Horror fiction is broadly Fiction in any medium intended to scare unsettle or horrify the audience Fantasy is a Genre that uses magic and other Supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting Each issue's cover carries the advisory label "Suggested for mature readers". Karen Berger is the executive editor of the imprint, and has overseen it since its inception. Karen Berger (born February 26, 1958) is an American Comic book editor

Vertigo comics series have won the comics industry's Eisner Award, including the Best Continuing Series of various years (Sandman, Preacher, 100 Bullets and Fables). The Will Eisner Comic Industry Award is a prize given for creative achievement in American Comic books It is named in honor of the pioneering writer and artist Will Eisner The Sandman is a Comic book series written by Neil Gaiman and published in the United States by the DC Comics imprint Vertigo Preacher is a Comic book series created by writer Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon, published by the American comic book label Vertigo Several of its publications have been adapted to film, including Hellblazer^[1], A History of Violence^[2], Stardust, and V for Vendetta^[3]. Hellblazer is a contemporary horror Comic book series published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics. This article is about the graphic novel For the film see A History of Violence (film. Stardust (1998 is the first solo prose novel by Neil Gaiman. It is usually published as a novel with illustrations by Charles Vess. V for Vendetta is a ten-issue Comic book

Contents 1 History 1.1 DC Horror & "Mature readers" titles 1.2 Touchmark Comics 2 Debut publications 2.1 Debut authors 3 Other early titles 4 Vertigo style & promotion 4.1 Format 5 Since 1993 5.1 Formerly non-Vertigo titles 5.2 Relationship to DC Universe 6 Creator-owned series' 6.1 Long-running titles 6.2 Trade paperbacks 7 Sub-imprints and brandings 7.1 Vertigo Visions 7.2 Vertigo Voices 7.3 Vertigo Vérité 7.4 V2K 7.5 Vertigo Pop! 7.6 Vertigo X 8 Experimental works 9 Notable Vertigo Editors 10 Notable Vertigo Writers 10.1 Launch writers 10.2 Later writers 11 Notable Vertigo Artists 11.1 Artists 11.2 Cover artists 12 Adaptations in other media 12.1 Film 12.2 TV 12.3 Computer games 13 See also 14 Notes 15 References 16 External links

History

DC Horror & "Mature readers" titles

According to Karen Berger, described as Vertigo Group Editor in January 1993 when talking about the impending launch of Vertigo:

"Vertigo evolved from the desire to consiolidate DC's mature/horror books into an integrated line, visually distinguishable and accessible to the growing readership of cutting edge comics. Karen Berger (born February 26, 1958) is an American Comic book editor "^[4]

Citing the "distinct sensibility" of such stories, but noting that 'Horror' "is too casual a phrase," Berger cited Alan Moore's work on Saga of the Swamp Thing and Jamie Delano's on Hellblazer as epitomising the use of horror as "a back-drop to explore real life situations. Alan Moore (born November 18 1953 in Northampton) is an English Writer most famous for his influential work in Comics, including the acclaimed The Swamp Thing is a Fictional character created by Len Wein and Berni Wrightson for DC Comics and featured in a long-running horror-fantasy Jamie Delano (born 1954 in Northampton) is a British Comics Writer. Hellblazer is a contemporary horror Comic book series published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics. "^[4] Having experienced some success (both critically and commercially) with the dual-introductions (throughout the 1980s) of the so-called "British invasion" and the "Mature Readers" label, by the end of 1992 DC had shown (not least with the "strong readership" of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman) that, in Berger's words "[t]here [was] a market for innovative, literary comics with good modern visuals. Neil Richard Gaiman (ˈgeɪmən (born November 10, 1960) is an English author of Science fiction and Fantasy short stories and "^[4]

Touchmark Comics

Many of the earliest new Vertigo series derived from Disney Comics' aborted Touchmark Comics imprint, a line announced before the so-called "Disney Implosion" of 1991, and subsequently abandoned. This article is about Disney Comics a Publisher of Comic books. This article is about Disney Comics a Publisher of Comic books. Events January February March April X-Force debuts in New Mutants vol Touchmark was to be helmed at Disney by ex-DC editor Art Young, but when it was jettisoned, both Young and the properties were acquired by DC forming part of the debut Vertigo line. Art Young ( January 14, 1866 – December 29, 1943) was an American Cartoonist and writer Berger notes that "when Art Young became available with the Touchmark properties. . . that helped facilitate the line," and the influx of projects allowed Berger to "double [her] proposed publishing plan. "^[4] Quite how much of a part Disney's decision to scrap Touchmark played in the creation of Vertigo is open for debate. ^[5] It has been suggested that Touchmark was to be headquartered in the UK, and that Art Young was then residing there part-explaining the considerable amount of Great British talent being involved in early Vertigo projects. ^[6] Early Vertigo projects The Extremists, Mercy, Shadows Fall, and The Last One have been named along with Enigma and Sebastian O as having originally being a part of Touchmark. ^[7][6]

Debut publications

Having spear-headed the "British invasion," by head-hunting such writers as Moore, Gaiman, Delano, Grant Morrison^[8], Garth Ennis and Peter Milligan, Berger was well suited to head up the new line, as she was alread editing many of the series' which would form the core of the early Vertigo output. Grant Morrison (born January 31 1960 is a Scottish Comic book writer and artist Garth Ennis (born January 16, 1970 in Holywood, Northern Ireland) is an Irish Comics writer best known for the DC Peter Milligan is an British writer best known for his Comic book, film and television work Debuting alongside ongoing former-DC series' Swamp Thing #129, Hellblazer #63, Sandman #47, Doom Patrol #64, Animal Man #57, and Shade, the Changing Man #33, the first new comic book printed under the "Vertigo" imprint was Death: The High Cost of Living #1, debuting a scant couple of weeks before Enigma #1 in January (March) 1993. Hellblazer is a contemporary horror Comic book series published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics. The Sandman is a Comic book series written by Neil Gaiman and published in the United States by the DC Comics imprint Vertigo The Doom Patrol is a Fictional Superhero team appearing in publications from DC Comics. Animal Man ( Bernhard "Buddy" Baker) is a fictional DC Comics Superhero. Shade the Changing Man is a Fictional Comic book character created by Steve Ditko for DC Comics in 1977 Death The High Cost of Living is an American Comic book Miniseries, written by Neil Gaiman with art by Chris Bachalo and Enigma is a Comic book by Peter Milligan, with artwork done by Duncan Fegredo, featuring a Superhero called "The Enigma"

Debut authors

Although regularly cited as one of the major forces behind the creation of Vertigo comics, none of the launch titles were written by Alan Moore (he having long-left Swamp Thing, and only created the character of - but never written the spin-off solo title - Hellblazer). ^[9] but neither were any of the initial launch titles written by Grant Morrison, who had similarly finished his seminal runs on both Animal Man and Doom Patrol under the DC logo. ^[4][7]

Instead, the key launch Vertigo writers were part of the "second wave" of British talent, focused in large part around Gaiman, whose Sandman was so critical to the decision to create Vertigo, and whose Death mini-series launched it. Peter Milligan penned the other new series, Enigma, and continued Shade, the Changing Man, while Ennis continued Hellblazer, Delano wrote Animal Man, Fantasy author Rachel Pollack took over Doom Patrol and Horror author Nancy Collins wrote Swamp Thing. Rachel Pollack is an American Science fiction author Comic book writer and expert on Divinatory tarot. Nancy A Collins (born 10 September, 1959) is a United States Horror fiction writer best known for her series of Vampire novels featuring ^[10] The ninth comic launched at Vertigo's 1993 debut was the Vertigo Preview, showcasing the concurrently-released titles, as well as J. M. DeMatteis' Mercy, Ann Nocenti's Kid Eternity (an on-going series spun off from the earlier Morrison-penned mini-series), Dick Foreman's Black Orchid(an on-going series spun off from the Gaiman/McKean mini-series) and Matt Wagner's Sandman Mystery Theatre. John Marc DeMatteis (born December 15 1953) is an American Writer of Comic books. Ann Nocenti is an American Journalist, Writer and editor known for her work on Comic books and Magazines Biography Kid Eternity is a Comic book Superhero who first premiered in Hit Comics #25 published by Quality Comics in December 1942. Black Orchid is the name of three Fictional Superheroines published by DC Comics. Matt Wagner (born 1961) is an American Comic book Writer and Artist, best known as the creator of two irregular series Sandman Mystery Theatre is a Comic book series published by Vertigo, the mature-readers imprint of DC Comics.

Other early titles

Having inherited some projects from Disney's aborted Touchmark project, Vertigo was able to plan a first year in which they were to publish "two new series [per] month in a variety of formats, either one-shots or miniseries or ongoing monthlies. " The initial two series' were both miniseries, the aformentioned Death: The High Cost of Living by Neil Gaiman and Chris Bachalo and Enigma by Peter Milligan and Duncan Fegredo. Chris Bachalo (born August 23, 1965) is an American Comic book illustrator known for his quirky cartoon-like style Duncan Fegredo is a Comic book artist born in Leicester in 1968 Enigma was initially "going to be the launch book of [Disney's] Touchmark," but became the second new Vertigo title, written by the author Shade, the Changing Man, and drawn by the artist from Grant Morrison's earlier Kid Eternity mini-series. ^[4] The major launch of the second month was Sandman: Mystery Theatre, described by Berger as in the same format as Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight, "with different storylines every four issues. " Written by Matt Wagner, it was described as "playing the '30s with a '90s feel. . . haunting, film noir-ish. Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize moral ambiguity and sexual motivation . . ," and starring original Sandman Wesley Dodds in a title whose "sensibilities echo crime genre fiction. Sandman is the name of seven Fictional characters Superheroes appearing in Comic books published by DC Comics. Sandman ( Wesley Dodds) is a fictional Superhero appearing in Comic books published by DC Comics. Crime fiction is the Genre of Fiction that deals with Crimes their detection criminals and their motives It is usually distinguished from "^[4] Joining Mystery Theatre in February (cover-dated April, 1993) was J. Marc DeMatteis (and Paul Johnson)'s 64-page one-shot Mercy, while other initially-talked about Vertigo projects included Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell's 3-issue steampunk miniseries Sebastian O - another ex-Touchmark project. Steve Yeowell is a British Comics artist well-known for his work on the long-running Science fiction and Fantasy weekly comic Steampunk is a subgenre of fantasy and Speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s Sebastian O is the title of a Comic book series written by Grant Morrison and drawn by Steve Yeowell for DC's Vertigo

Vertigo style & promotion

Although the books did not have a consistent visual style, the cover designs of early Vertigo series featured a uniform trade dress with a vertical bar along the left side, which included the imprint logo, pricing, date, and issue numbers. Trade dress refers to characteristics of the visual appearance of a product or its packaging (or even the facade of a building such as a restaurant that may be registered and protected The initial Vertigo 'look' "was created so people who see the books will automatically know it's [a Vertigo title]. "^[4] The design layout continued with very little variation until issues cover-dated July 2002 (including Fables #1) which introduced an across-the-top layout ahead of 2003's "Vertigo X" 10th anniversary celebration. The "distinctive design" was deisgned to be used on "all Vertigo books except the hardcovers, trade paperbacks, and graphic novels. "^[4] Berger noted that DC was "very" committed to line, having put a "lot of muscle behind" promoting it, including a promotional launch kit made available to "[r]etailers who order[ed] at least 25 copies of the February issue of Sandman [#47]," a "Platinum edition" variant cover for Death: The High Cost of Living #1 and a 75c Vertigo Preview comic featuring a specially-written seven-page Sandman story by Gaiman and Kent Williams. Kent Williams (b 1962 is an American painter and Graphic novel artist ^[4] In addition, a 16-page Vertigo Sampler was also produced and bundled with copies of Capital City Distribution's Advance Comics solicitation index. ^[4]

Format

In addition to the initially announced projects, Berger noted that, due to the then fluctuating state of the comics market, the Vertigo line was erring on the side of "blue line art or flat colors" rather than fully-painted works, because "the market seems to be really price-sensitive. "^[4] Although Vertigo released several "new format" and "Prestige format" titles, Berger noted that they had "to be really selective" with choosing to present stories in those formats solely "if the story can only be done that way," rather than as a default. Prestige format is a term coined by DC Comics but now in wider use to refer to a Square-bound Comic book with Cardstock covers ^[4]

Since 1993

Formerly non-Vertigo titles

The Vertigo imprint, devoted specifically to titles for mature readers, has also been retroactively applied to later reprints of material previously published under other DC imprints. In addition to the earlier issues of the such initially-DC ongoing series as Doom Patrol and Swamp Thing, other "mature readers" works such as V for Vendetta have later been subsumed into the Vertigo line. V for Vendetta is a ten-issue Comic book Books from discontinued imprints which have individual staying-power also been rebranded, most notably Transmetropolitan, which initially launched under DC's short-lived sci-fi Helix imprint, but switched to Vertigo with issue #13 (September 1998) and ran for a further 47 issues and four years; and A History of Violence which was originally published as part of DC's Paradox Press line, but reprinted under the Vertigo imprint when it was adapted into a motion picture. Transmetropolitan is a Postcyberpunk Comic book series written by Warren Ellis with art by Darick Robertson and published by Helix was a short-lived Science fiction and Science fantasy Imprint of DC Comics, launched in 1996 and discontinued in 1998 This article is about the graphic novel For the film see A History of Violence (film. Paradox Press is a division of DC Comics. It was designed to publish Graphic novels that were not of the superhero genre as comprises most of DC's publishing efforts Other quirky, "mature" or "horror" series have seen collections sold under the Vertigo banner, including a "best of" collection of the Silver Age Comics Code-approved House of Mystery – a forerunner of Vertigo's founding horror/fantasy series – and a reprint of its first issue from 1951 (as July 1998's Welcome Back to the House of Mystery^[11]). The Silver Age of Comic Books was a period of artistic advancement and commercial success in mainstream American comic books predominantly those featuring the Superhero The Comics Code Authority ( CCA) is part of the Comics Magazine Association of America (CMAA and was created to regulate the content of comic books in the United The House of Mystery is the name of several horror-mystery-suspense anthology comic book series

Relationship to DC Universe

Although many of the initial Vertigo publications were set in the DC Universe (Shade, Swamp Thing and the Sandman all fit into the broader DC Universe, and have interacted with DC heroes including Superman and Batman), even pre-Vertigo the "mature reader" titles occupied a particular "dark corner" of the mainstream DCU, and the establishment of the imprint continued to distance the in-Universe series' from full DC-branded continuity. The DC Universe ( DCU) is the fictional Shared universe where most of the comic stories published by DC Comics take place Superman is a fictional Comic book Superhero widely considered to be one of the most recognized of such characters and an American Cultural icon Batman (originally referred to as the Bat-Man and still referred to at times as the Batman) is a fictional Comic book Superhero co-created Appearances in DC series by characters appearing in Vertigo series were very uncommon (notable exceptions include Sandman's Daniel appearing in two issues of Grant Morrison's 1997 relaunch of core-DCU title JLA), while events which had a "global" impact in the books of one imprint were not seen in the books of the other, (e. Daniel Hall is a Fictional character in the Sandman Comic book series written by Neil Gaiman and published by DC Comics The Justice League sometimes called the Justice League of America or JLA for short is a Fictional DC Comics superhero team. g. Vertigo's "The Children's Crusade" crossover or DC's "Bloodlines" crossover, both in 1993). The Children's Crusade is the over-arcing title of a seven-issue Comic book crossover and Limited series, and specifically the two bookends thereof CrossOver (known before version 60 as CrossOver Office) is the collective name for three commercial and proprietary programs developed by CodeWeavers "Bloodlines" was a 1993 Comic book Story arc published by DC Comics. However, several characters used in Gaiman's Sandman, The Books of Magic, John Constantine and Black Orchid have all appeared briefly in mainstream DC comics, while other characters (primarily in the magical and supernatural grey area between mainstream and mature lines) have spanned the universes - the 2003 Zatanna special "Everyday Magic" was published as a Vertigo title, while Zatanna herself remains rooted in the DC Universe, and the current 2008 Madame Xanadu series is also being released under the Vertigo imprint. The Sandman is a Comic book series written by Neil Gaiman and published in the United States by the DC Comics imprint Vertigo The Books of Magic is the title of a four-issue English-language Comic book mini-series written by Neil Gaiman, and later an ongoing series John Constantine ( May 10, 1953 in Liverpool, England) is the fictional Protagonist of the comic series Black Orchid is the name of three Fictional Superheroines published by DC Comics. Zatanna Zatara is a fictional character in the DC Comics universe. Madame Xanadu is a Fictional character, a mystic in the DC Comics universe. Characters from the DC Universe have slightly more commonly made guest appearances in Vertigo comics, and Vertigo mini-series featuring DC Universe characters "out of continuity" appear from time to time, including the above-mentioned Zatanna one-shot, and characters such as Doctor Occult and The Phantom Stranger. Zatanna Zatara is a fictional character in the DC Comics universe. Doctor Occult is a Fictional character, a magic user in the DC Comics universe. The Phantom Stranger is a Fictional character of unspecified Paranormal origins who battles mysterious and Occult forces in various titles published

Borderline DC/Vertigo titles Animal Man and Doom Patrol sit uneasily between the Universes, both having begun as merely quirky titles in the mainstream universe, but becoming part of the Vertigo launch line-up in 1993 by dint of their increasingly separate and "mature" storylines. Animal Man ( Bernhard "Buddy" Baker) is a fictional DC Comics Superhero. The Doom Patrol is a Fictional Superhero team appearing in publications from DC Comics. Both eventually returned to regular appearances under the main DC imprint after their Vertigo series' were canceled, and Doom Patrol has seen subsequent volumes released under the DC banner, while Animal Man played an integral role in recent DC year-long events 52 and Countdown. Countdown, in comics, may refer to ''Countdown'' (Odhams Press, a British boys comic of the early 1970s Countdown to Final

Creator-owned series'

Much of Vertigo's output, however, inhabits its own "universe," and is set completely apart from the DC universe, automatically putting paid to continuity quibbles between the two. Vertigo was the first successful imprint of DC Comics to routinely publish creator-owned series, right from its launch, with Peter Milligan and Duncan Fegredo's Enigma. Creator ownership is an arrangement in which the creator or creators of a work of fiction retain full ownership of the material regardless of whether it is self-published or From the start, Berger was committed to creator-owned projects, working on several "[her]self with new writers and artists" as well as established names, with the express intention of "trying to bring new people into the industry, as well as use some of the best creators in comics. "^[4]

Long-running titles

Only one of series' which existed before the formation of Vertigo is still ongoing (Hellblazer), the other launch titles having been cancelled or - as in the case of Gaiman's Sandman - brought to a definitive close.

However, Vertigo has published a number of series since it's start with runs of more than 50 issues. They include:

• Sandman Mystery Theatre (70 issues),
• Preacher (66 issues plus tie-ins),
• The Books of Magic (75 issues plus sequel series),
• The Invisibles (59 issues over three volumes),
• Transmetropolitan (60 issues and two specials, although the first twelve "main" issues were released under the Helix imprint),
• Lucifer (75 issues),
• Y: The Last Man (60 issues),
• 100 Bullets (ongoing, with a projected 100-issue run), and
• Fables (ongoing). Sandman Mystery Theatre is a Comic book series published by Vertigo, the mature-readers imprint of DC Comics. Preacher is a Comic book series created by writer Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon, published by the American comic book label Vertigo The Books of Magic is the title of a four-issue English-language Comic book mini-series written by Neil Gaiman, and later an ongoing series The Invisibles is a mature readers Comic book series that was published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics from 1994 to Transmetropolitan is a Postcyberpunk Comic book series written by Warren Ellis with art by Darick Robertson and published by Lucifer is a DC Comics character that starred in an eponymous Comic book published under the Vertigo Imprint. Y The Last Man is a Comic book series by Brian K Vaughan and Pia Guerra, about the only man to survive the mysterious simultaneous

Most of these series' have further been kept in perpetual print as paperback collected editions, which typically sell as well - or better - than the monthly series' did.

Trade paperbacks

The (financial) success of many Vertigo titles relies not on monthly issue sales, but on the subsequent "trade paperback" editions which reprint the monthly comics in volumes which are sold not merely in comic shops, but in all bookshops. Vertigo's success in popularizing the trade paperback collection led to a wider take-up in the American comics industry of routinely reprinting monthly series in this format. Limited series (ideal for later collection) and original graphic novels make up the majority of the imprint's output, with TPB sales accounting for a substantial segment of the imprint's sales.

Sub-imprints and brandings

Over it's fifteen-year history, the Vertigo imprint has experimented with a number of different branding, sub-imprint and business practices - some more popular and successful than others. The first - and only - "crossover" between Vertigo titles, 1993-4's The Children's Crusade event, despite comparable preorder numbers of the higher-(double-)priced Annuals, "did not yield smashing results" or garner many positive reviews, in large part due to it's "gimmicky" nature, which ran counter to Vertigo's quirky, non-mainstream appeal and customer-base. The Children's Crusade is the over-arcing title of a seven-issue Comic book crossover and Limited series, and specifically the two bookends thereof ^[12] The event was defended as "no marketing ploy" by one of the event's editors, Lou Stathis, who wrote of his dislike of the often "crass manipulation" of crossover events, defending The Children's Crusade as having come not from marketing, but the writers' minds, and therefore being "story-driven" rather than manipulative. ^[13] The crossover did not become an annual event, however - indeed, annuals linked to Vertigo series rarely reappeared since this event.

Vertigo Visions

Marked on the right-hand side of the cover by the Vertigo Visions "eye" logo, the six (to date) one-shots released under this sub-imprint have little in common other than introducing formerly (and, indeed, still) DC-Universe characters into the Vertigo line. All six characters span the gap between the universes, and have appeared in comics from both imprints. Prez Rickard for example, debuted in Prez: First Teen President a short-lived early-1970s series by Joe Simon (who also co-created Brother Power, the Geek) and artist Jerry Grandenetti, but then drifted in obscurity before being spotlighted in Gaiman's Sandman #54. Joseph H Simon (born October 11, 1913) is a Jewish-American Comic book Writer, Artist, editor, and publisher Jerry Grandenetti ( April 15, 1925 or 1927 differ Bronxville, New York) is an American Comic book artist and Advertising The Sandman is a Comic book series written by Neil Gaiman and published in the United States by the DC Comics imprint Vertigo Ed Brubaker's one-shot dealt with Prez's supposed son seeking out his supposed father.

• Vertigo Visions: The Geek (June 1993) by Rachel Pollack and Mike Allred
• Vertigo Visions: Phantom Stranger (Oct 1993) by Alisa Kwitney and Guy Davis
• Vertigo Visions: Doctor Occult (July 1994) by Dave Louapre and Dan Sweetman
• Vertigo Visions: Prez - Smells Like Teen President (Sep 1995) by Ed Brubaker and Eric Shanower
• Vertigo Visions: Tomahawk (July 1998) by Rachel Pollack and Tom Yeates
• Vertigo Visions: Doctor Thirteen (Sep 1998) by Matt Howarth and Michael Avon Oeming^[14]

Vertigo Visions was also the title of a 2000 collection of artwork from various Vertigo titles. Brother Power the Geek was a Comic book character created in the late 1960s for DC Comics by Joe Simon. Rachel Pollack is an American Science fiction author Comic book writer and expert on Divinatory tarot. Michael Dalton "Mike" Allred is an American comic book artist and writer. The Phantom Stranger is a Fictional character of unspecified Paranormal origins who battles mysterious and Occult forces in various titles published Alisa Kwitney is an American author. Kwitney was born in New York City. Guy Davis (1966-) is an American Comic book artist primarily known for his work on Sandman Mystery Theatre and various Hellboy Doctor Occult is a Fictional character, a magic user in the DC Comics universe. Daniel Jonathan Sweetman (born 7 May 1985) is the co-host for Network Ten 's national cartoon show Toasted TV. Prez First Teen President was a four issue comic series by writer Joe Simon (the creator of Captain America) and artist Jerry Grandenetti Ed Brubaker (born November 17 1966 is an Eisner Award -winning American Cartoonist and Writer. Eric James Shanower (b October 23 is an American Comics Artist and Writer, best known for his Oz novels and comics and the on-going retelling Tomahawk is a Comic book character whose adventures were published by DC Comics during the 1950's and 1960's in his own comics series Rachel Pollack is an American Science fiction author Comic book writer and expert on Divinatory tarot. Thomas Yeates is an American Comic book and Comic strip artist known for his work on characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and on other properties Dr Terrence Thirteen, known simply as Doctor Thirteen or Dr 13, is a Fictional character is Comic books set in the DC Universe Matt Howarth is an artist/cartoonist who created among other things the Comic book series Those Annoying Post Bros, Savage Henry Michael Avon Oeming (Pronounced O-Ming is an American Comic book artist and writer well known for his stark art style which is used for telling sophisticated and Scripted by Alisa Kwitney, Vertigo Visions: Artwork From the Cutting Edge of Comics (ISBN 0-8230-5603-1) featured sections on:

1. The founding Vertigo "Cornerstones" (Swamp Thing, Sandman, The Dreaming and Books of Magic),
2. "Metafiction" in Vertigo titles (Animal Man, Doom Patrol, Shade, the Changing Man, The Invisibles),
3. The (other) "Cult Favorite" titles (Sandman Mystery Theatre, House of Secrets, Transmetropolitan, Jonah Hex, Moonshadow, etc. The Dreaming is a Fictional place, the domain of Dream of the Endless in Neil Gaiman 's The Sandman Comic book The Books of Magic is the title of a four-issue English-language Comic book mini-series written by Neil Gaiman, and later an ongoing series Metafiction is a literary term for a type of Fiction that systematically and self-consciously addresses the devices of fiction including the relationship between fiction and The House of Secrets is the name of several mystery -suspense Anthology Comic book series published by DC Comics. Transmetropolitan is a Postcyberpunk Comic book series written by Warren Ellis with art by Darick Robertson and published by Jonah Hex is a Fictional character, a Western Comic book Anti-hero created by writer John Albano and artist Tony DeZuniga Moonshadow is a 1985 &ndash 1987 Limited series written and created by J )
4. The "Skewed Reality" of such titles as Chiaroscuro & Preacher et al. Chiaroscuro, in comics, may refer to ''Chiaroscuro'' (2000 AD, a 2000 AD horror comic series Preacher is a Comic book series created by writer Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon, published by the American comic book label Vertigo , and
5. The "Alternate Realities" of such titles as Goddess, Terminal City & Stardust et al. The Goddess was the name assumed by the "feminine self-aware" supposedly "good" aspect of Adam Warlock, subconsciously exiled from his psyche whilst he was Terminal City are two Comic book Limited series published by DC Comics under their Vertigo Imprint in 1996 and 1997 Stardust (1998 is the first solo prose novel by Neil Gaiman. It is usually published as a novel with illustrations by Charles Vess. ^[15]

Vertigo Voices

The Vertigo Voices sub-imprint was an early attempt by Vertigo to allow its creators freedom in producing creator-owned "distinctive one-shot stories"^[16], or as Julian Darius described them "renegade short blasts, acts of artistic terrorism. "^[17] Under a specially-designed issue-header (along the top, rather than the normal Vertigo side-banner), the Vertigo Voices specials were owned by their creators, and released as an initial three (or four: see below), with The Eaters following separately. (Tainted was to be "the third of the three original. . . specials," but became the second after Kill Your Boyfriend was delayed. ^[17]) The published four were:

• Face (Jan 1995) by Peter Milligan & Duncan Fegredo
• Tainted (Feb 1995) by Jamie Delano and Al Davison
• Kill Your Boyfriend (June 1995) by Grant Morrison and Philip Bond (with D'Israeli)
• The Eaters (?Nov 1995) by Milligan and Dean Ormston

Milligan and Fegredo's Face was a horror story involving plastic surgery, while Delano and Davison's Tainted - described by one fan/critic as a "psychological masterpiece"^[17] - was a Kafkaesque tale set in England about a straight-laced gentlemen turned peeping tom, caught up in a tale involving repressed memories, blackmail and murder. Peter Milligan is an British writer best known for his Comic book, film and television work Duncan Fegredo is a Comic book artist born in Leicester in 1968 Jamie Delano (born 1954 in Northampton) is a British Comics Writer. Kill Your Boyfriend is the title of a Comic book one-shot written by Grant Morrison and drawn by Philip Bond and D'Israeli Grant Morrison (born January 31 1960 is a Scottish Comic book writer and artist Philip J Bond is a British Comic book artist, who first came to prominence in the late 1980s on Deadline magazine and later through a number This article is about the cartoonist known as D'Israeli You may be looking for Benjamin Disraeli or Isaac D'Israeli Matt Brooker Dean Ormston is a British born Comic book artist. His most notable work has been for the British comic 2000 AD and for DC Plastic surgery is a medical specialty interested in the correction of form and function " Kafkaesque " is an Auctorial descriptive which is used to describe concepts situations and ideas which are reminiscent of the literary work of Prague writer Grant Morrison and Philip Bond's Kill Your Boyfriend deals with themes of repression, excess and corruptive influences, and purports to transform a "real" character into a mythical one by having the main female take on the persona projected by her new, murderous, bad-boy boyfriend - a transformation she uses within the confines of the story to justify, excuse and explain her excessive behaviour. ^[18] Peter Milligan and Dean Ormston's The Eaters was a black comedy dealing with a family of cannibals caught up in a tale of revenge and American "family values" on a deeply satirical road trip. Black comedy, also known as black humor or dark comedy, is a sub-genre of Comedy and Satire where topics and events that are usually regarded Cannibalism (from Spanish es ''caníbal'' in connection with cannibalism among the Antillean Caribs, also called anthropophagy (from Greek ἄνθρωπος This article is about the film Road Trip For the PlayStation 2 video game see Road Trip Adventure. ^[19]

Kill Your Boyfriend was later reprinted in the prestige format (this time with a notable spine) in 1998. Prestige format is a term coined by DC Comics but now in wider use to refer to a Square-bound Comic book with Cardstock covers ^[20][21]

Lost "Voice"
Four titles were initially solicited in the Vertigo Voices range, the three which formed the initial release and a fourth title: Bizarre Boys. Announced as part of the initial line-up, but subsequently not released (and then replaced by The Eaters), Bizarre Boys was to have been a collaboration between Grant Morrison, Peter Milligan and Jamie Hewlett. Jamie Christopher Hewlett (born April 3, 1968) is an English Comic book artist and designer ^[22] This title would have seen metafictional authors "Morrigan" and "Millison" on a quest to find their titular creations, and "[e]choing James Joyce's Bloomsday, whatever events happen on Bizarre Boys Day [would] also [have] happen[ed] in the comic. James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 &ndash 13 January 1941 was an Irish expatriate writer widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the "^[22]

Vertigo Vérité

In 1996, several comics titles (two one-shots and three miniseries') were collectively released under the sub-imprint Vertigo Vérité. The short-lived "Vérité" line, evoking the realism of Cinéma vérité from the French for 'truth,' "was a 1996-98 attempt to promote new Vertigo projects devoid of the supernatural qualities that had gotten to define the publisher. Cinéma Vérité is the first Album by an Alternative rock group Dramarama, released in November 1985 "^[18] Critic Julian Darius described the short-lived name as "a rather stupid title for a revamped "Vertigo Voices". "^[23]

The five titles released under the "Vérité" baner were:

• Seven Miles a Second (May 1996) by David Wojnarowicz and James Romberger
• The System #1-3 (May-July 1996) by Peter Kuper
• Girl #1-3 (July-Sep 1996) by Peter Milligan and Duncan Fegredo
• The Unseen Hand #1-4 (Sep-Dec 1996) by Terry LaBan & Ilya
• Hell Eternal (April 1998) by Jamie Delano and Sean Phillips

Seven Miles a Second (the title comes from "the speed which an object needs to achieve to break free of the Earth’s gravity"^[24]) was published after Wojnarowicz's death from AIDS, and covered his experiences of living with that disease. David Wojnarowicz ( September 14, 1954 - July 22, 1992) was a Gay painter, Photographer, Writer, James Romberger (b 1958 is an American Fine artist and cartoonist known for his depictions of New York City 's Lower East Side. Peter Kuper (b September 22, 1958) is an American alternative cartoonist and illustrator known for his autobiographical social and political Peter Milligan is an British writer best known for his Comic book, film and television work Duncan Fegredo is a Comic book artist born in Leicester in 1968 Terry LaBan is an alternative/underground cartoonist and Newspaper comic strip artist Jamie Delano (born 1954 in Northampton) is a British Comics Writer. Sean Phillips is a British Comic book Artist, Inker, and Penciller. ^[24] Peter Kuper's The System dealt wordlessly with "class warfare in the big city,"^[25], while Milligan & Fegredo's Girlis a hyper-realistic tale of a disaffected teenage girl prone to "all-consuming daydreams. . . needed to cope with life itself" caught up in a tale of murder and mundanity. ^[18] The Unseen Hand features a college student caught up in an Illuminati-like conspiracy^[26], with 1998's Hell Eternal

The System was subsequently collected in a TPB. "Illuminata" redirects here For the 1998 John Turturro film see Illuminata (film.

V2K

On the eve of the year 2000, Vertigo released several titles under the "Fifth-week event" brand V2K (Vertigo 2000), to "celebrate. A fifth week event is a novelty Comic book promotion Comic publishers schedule releases in four-week cycles . . the (faux) millennium". ^[27] Fifth-week events, which infrequently take advantage of a month having five comics-shipping-days (usually Wednesday/Thursday) are typically designed to fill-in the extra day in the normal four weekly schedule. The "events" tend to see the released of stand alone one-shot titles, usually with a cogent theme. V2K, by contrast was a "much hyped concept" whose titles were designed to "usher. . . in the new millennium," and as such several of them were miniseries' rather than one-shots. ^[28]

Under the slogan "Future's Here. . . Start Screaming", the five V2K titles were:

• Brave Old World #1-4 (Feb-May 2000) by William Messner-Loebs and Phil Hester
• The Four Horsemen #1-4 (Feb-May 2000) by Robert Rodi and Esad Ribic
• I Die at Midnight by Kyle Baker
• Pulp Fantastic #1-3 (Feb-Apr 2000) by Howard Chaykin & David Tischman and Rick Burchett
• Totems (Feb 2000) by Tom Peyer with Richard Case, Duncan Fegredo and Dean Ormston

Pulp Fantastic was initially solicited (and the first issue labelled) as a 4-issue miniseries, but it was swiftly revised as a 3-issue mini. William Francis Messner-Loebs Jr (born February 19, 1949) is an American comic book writer and artist from Michigan, also known as Phil Hester is the name of several persons Phillip Doyce Hester (1955 former chief technology officer of Advanced Micro Devices Phil Robert Rodi is an American (born 1956 Chicago Illinois) novelist playwright comic book writer essayist and performance artist Kyle Baker (born 1965 in Queens, New York City, United States) is an American Writer and Illustrator of Comic books as Howard Victor Chaykin (born October 7, 1950 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American comic book writer and artist famous for his Rick Burchett is an Illustrator known for his drawing of Pop culture icons such as Batman and Superman. Richard Case (born 1964 is an American Comics artist, most often seen published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics. Duncan Fegredo is a Comic book artist born in Leicester in 1968 Dean Ormston is a British born Comic book artist. His most notable work has been for the British comic 2000 AD and for DC

Vertigo Pop!

The Vertigo Pop mini-series were designed "to be about pop culture around the globe in some vaguely defined way. "^[29] Indeed, along with middling sales-figures, one critic noted that "[a]side from vague notions of foreign cities and pop culture, it was never entirely clear what they were supposed to have in common in the first place. "^[30]

• Vertigo Pop: Tokyo #1-4 (Sep-Dec 2002) by Jonathan Vankin and Seth Fisher
• Vertigo Pop: London #1-4 (Jan-Apr 2003) by Peter Milligan and Philip Bond
• Vertigo Pop: Bangkok #1-4 (Jul-Oct 2003) by Vankin and Giuseppe Camuncoli

The first (four-issue) miniseries, Vertigo Pop: Tokyo was in the words of one reviewer "a broad comedy about cosplay fans and the mafia (yakuza),"^[29] revolving around an American who moves to Tokyo's famous Akihabara district and attempts to deal with the differences between the two cultures before getting caught up in a "wild adventure involving kidnapping, extortion, gangsters, and rock stars. Jonathan Vankin is an author and journalist Biography Vankin is a graduate of Brandeis University. Seth Fisher ( July 22, 1972 - January 30, 2006) was an American Comic book Artist and Penciller. short for "costume play" is a type of performance art whose participants outfit themselves with often-elaborate Costumes and Accessories, as a specific The Mafia (also known as Cosa Nostra) is a Sicilian Criminal Secret society which is believed to have first developed in the mid-19th century History Origins Despite their notoriety in modern Japan the precise origin of the Yakuza is still somewhat the subject of debate officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshū. ("Field of Autumn Leaves" also known as, is an area of Tokyo Japan "^[31] The second miniseries, Vertigo Pop: London, told the tale of "Rocky Lamont, lead singer in 1960s rock band" who "[r]ather than burning out the way he'd hoped. . . [went] into a slow and dull decline with a trophy wife and a series of dreary albums. "^[29] Given the chance to relive his life by switching bodies with "a talentless 20 year-old wannabe rock star with all the looks and charm Rocky used to have," the series deals with the subsequent soul-searching and reflection over such a decision. A body swap is a Storytelling device seen in a variety of Fiction, most often in TV shows and Movies, in which two people (or beings exchange ^[32]

The third (and final) miniseries, Vertigo Pop: Bangkok was an altogether "darker affair," dealing in part with the sleazy underbelly of Bangkok from the perspective of a number of different Western tourists. ^[30] Featuring several unlikable and unsympathetic protagonists, the miniseries "capture[d] the city in a dirty and unflattering — yet realistic — light" serving as a backdrop to a tale of the Thai sex trade and sex tourism. Prostitution is the act of performing Sexual activity in exchange for Money. Sex tourism is travel to engage in Sexual intercourse or sexual activity with prostitutes, and is typically undertaken internationally by tourists from wealthier countries ^[33]

Vertigo X

In 2003, the Vertigo imprint celebrated "Ten years on the edge"^[34] by branding their books cover-dated April 2003 to February 2004 (i. e. released between February and December 2003) - Vertigo's Tenth Anniversary - with the legend Vertigo X. Events January February March April May June July August September This special subtitle was debuted on the Vertigo X Anniversary Preview (Apr 2003), a 48-page special previewing Vertigo's up-coming projects and featuring a short Shade, the Changing Man story by the "Ecstatic" team of Peter Milligan and Mike Allred (a pun on their then-current Marvel project together: X-Statix). Marvel Comics is an American comic book company owned by Marvel Publishing Inc X-Statix was the name of a Fictional team of mutant Superheroes in Marvel Comics, specifically designed to be media superstars Projects highlighted included Death: At Death's Door, Jill Thompson's first manga-ized version of the "Season of Mists" storyline, retold from the point of view of the Sandman's elder-sister Death and Gaiman's own return to the mythos with the hardcover Sandman: Endless Nights all-star collection of short stories spotlighting the seven members of the Endless. Death At Death's Door is a Comic penned and inked in the Manga -style by Jill Thompson, author of the Little Endless Jill Thompson (born November 20, 1966) is an American Comic book writer and Illustrator. ˈmɑŋgə is the Japanese word for Comics (sometimes called komikku コミック and print Cartoons In their modern form manga date from shortly Season of Mists ( 1992) is the fourth collection of issues in the DC Comics series The Sandman. The Sandman is a Comic book series written by Neil Gaiman and published in the United States by the DC Comics imprint Vertigo Death is a Fictional character from the DC Comic book series The Sandman (1988 - 1996 The Sandman Endless Nights is a Graphic novel written by Neil Gaiman as a follow-up to his Sandman The Endless ( Destiny, Death, Dream, Destruction, Despair, Desire and Delirium) are a group of beings who embody (An 8-page Endless Nights Preview issue was also released before the hardcover). Also highlighted and previewed were two original graphic novels: Lovecraft (based on a screenplay by Hans Rodionoff and adapted by Keith Giffen with art by Enrique Breccia) took the conceit that H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos creatures were real, to paint a highly fictionalized biographic portrait of the titular author, while Howard Chaykin & David Tischman's Barnum! (with art by Niko Henrichon) similarly drifted in the realms of fictionalized biography, but did not stray into the horror/supernatural world. See also Pre-production Screenwriting A screenplay or script is a written plan authored by a Screenwriter, for a Film or Television Keith Ian Giffen (born November 30, 1952) is an American comic book illustrator and writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft ( August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of horror, fantasy The Cthulhu Mythos is a Shared universe created in the 1920s by American horror writer H Howard Victor Chaykin (born October 7, 1950 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American comic book writer and artist famous for his Niko Henrichon is a Canadian Comic book artist He is best known his work with writer Brian K The tale of P. T. Barnum: secret agent saw the celebrated showman saving the life of President Grover Cleveland and (with his circus charges, including original siamese twins Chang and Eng) and matching wits against the "evil" Nikola Tesla. Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5 1810 &ndash April 7 1891 was an American Showman remembered for Hoaxes and for founding the Circus that became the Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18 1837 June 24 1908 was both the twenty-second and twenty-fourth President of the United States. Conjoined twins are whose bodies are joined in utero A rare phenomenon the occurrence is estimated to range from 1 in 50000 births to 1 in 200000 births with a somewhat higher incidence There have already been discussions about Tesla's ethnicity on the talk page Also previewed as a 2003 release from Vertigo was Brett Lewis and John Paul Leon's The Winter Men, which ultimately saw its first issue released in September 2005 through WildStorm's "Signature Series" imprint. John Paul Leon (born April 26, 1972 in New York City) is an American comic book artist best known for his critically-acclaimed work that envisioned Events April April 13: DC Comics announces the discontinuation of its Humanoids and 2000 WildStorm Productions, or simply WildStorm, (sometimes rendered Wildstorm) is a publishing Imprint and studio of American Comic book

Miniseries

• Beware the Creeper #1-5 (June-Oct) by Jason Hall and Cliff Chiang
• Blood + Water #1-5 (May-Sept) by Judd Winick and Tomm Coker

Ongoing series

• Human Target #1-5 (Oct-Feb 2004) by Peter Milligan and Javier Pulido (Series continued until issue #21 June 2005)
• Losers #1-7 (Aug-Feb 2004) by Diggle and Jock (with Shawn Martinbrough) (Series continued until issue #32, March 2006)

OGNs

• Barnum!: In Secret Service to the USA (June/Aug) by Howard Chaykin, David Tischman and Niko Henrichon
• Death: At Death's Door (July/Sep) by Jill Thompson
• Sandman: Endless Nights (Oct/Dec) by Neil Gaiman with P. Craig Russell, Milo Manara, Miguelanxo Prado, Barron Storey & Dave McKean, Bill Sienkiewicz and Frank Quitely

Lovecraft by Hans Rodionoff, Keith Giffen and Enrique Breccia was previewed for release during Vertigo's anniversary year, but ultimately saw print in Mar/May 2004. Cliff Chiang is an American Comic book artist Formerly an assistant editor at DC Comics, he is now an illustrator best known for his work on Human Target Judd Winick (born in February 12, 1970 on Long Island, New York) is an American Comic book and Comic strip " Jock " is the pseudonym of British comics artist Mark Simpson, most known for his work with Andy Diggle in 2000 AD and on Howard Victor Chaykin (born October 7, 1950 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American comic book writer and artist famous for his Niko Henrichon is a Canadian Comic book artist He is best known his work with writer Brian K Death At Death's Door is a Comic penned and inked in the Manga -style by Jill Thompson, author of the Little Endless Jill Thompson (born November 20, 1966) is an American Comic book writer and Illustrator. Neil Richard Gaiman (ˈgeɪmən (born November 10, 1960) is an English author of Science fiction and Fantasy short stories and Philip Craig Russell (b October 30, 1951 in Wellsville Ohio) also known as P Milo Manara, byname of Maurilio Manara (born September 12, 1945 in Luson, Bolzano-Bozen) is an Italian Comic book Miguelanxo Prado is a Spanish Comic book creator, born in A Coruña in 1958 Barron Storey is an art teacher and artist He is famous for his accomplishments as an illustrator and fine artist and for his influence on several professional illustrators and writers David Tench McKean (born 29 December 1963 in Maidenhead, Berkshire) is an English Illustrator, Photographer, Boleslav (William Felix Robert Sienkiewicz ( IPA: 'kɛvɪʧ Polish 'kjeviʧ born May 3, 1958, Blakely, Pennsylvania Frank Quitely (born January 18, 1968) is the professional Pseudonym of Scottish Comic book Artist Vincent Deighan Keith Ian Giffen (born November 30, 1952) is an American comic book illustrator and writer Events February February 6: Marvel Enterprises and Electronic Arts announce a multi-year agreement in which EA

Also released
The final Vertigo Pop! miniseries, and the eighth-and-final issue of Garth Ennis' War Story series of one-shots were released in their entirety during the year and featured the logo:

• Vertigo Pop: Bangkok #1-4 (Jul-Oct 2003) by Vankin and Giuseppe Camuncoli
• War Story: Archangel (Apr) by Garth Ennis and Gary Erskine

Similarly, two other OGNs were released during the year, but not specifically highlighted in the preview as Anniversary titles:

• Orbiter (June/Aug) by Warren Ellis and Colleen Doran
• Sgt. Rock: Between Hell & A Hard Place (July/Sep) by Joe Kubert

The following on-going series' had issues released during Vertigo's anniversary year and those issues carried the "Vertigo X" branding:

• 100 Bullets #42-48 (Apr - Feb 2004) by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso
• Fables #10-20 (Apr-Feb 2004) by Bill Willingham and Mark Buckingham; with Lan Medina, Linda Medley & Bryan Talbot
• Lucifer #35-45 (Apr-Feb 2004) by Mike Carey, Peter Gross and Dean Ormston; with David Hahn & Ted Naifeh
• Y: The Last Man #8-17 (Apr-Feb 2004) by Brian K. Orbiter is a Graphic novel by Warren Ellis and Colleen Doran, published in 2003 by DC Comics under their Vertigo imprint Warren Ellis (born February 16, 1968) is a British author of Comics Novels and Television, well known for sociocultural Colleen Doran (born July 24, 1968) is an American Comic book Writer and Artist, best known for her fantasy series Joe Kubert (born September 18, 1926) is a Jewish - American Comic book Artist who went on to found the Joe Kubert School Lucifer is a DC Comics character that starred in an eponymous Comic book published under the Vertigo Imprint. Y The Last Man is a Comic book series by Brian K Vaughan and Pia Guerra, about the only man to survive the mysterious simultaneous Vaughan and Pia Guerra; with Paul Chadwick.

The following series' and mini-series' finished during the year, with the final issues featuring the "Vertigo X" logo:

• American Century #23-27 (Apr-Oct) by Howard Chaykin, David Tischman and Lan Medina; with Luke Ross & John Severin
• Codename: Knockout #21-23 (Apr-June) by Robert Rodi and John Lucas
• Fight for Tomorrow #6 (Apr) by Brian Wood and Denys Cowan
• The Filth #9-13 (Apr-Oct) by Grant Morrison and Chris Weston
• Hellblazer Special: Lady Constantine #3-4 (Apr-May) by Andy Diggle and Goran Sudzuka
• Hunter: The Age of Magic #20-25 (Apr-Sep) by Dylan Horrocks and Richard Case
• Sandman Presents: Bast #2-3 (Apr-May) by Caitlin R. American Century was a Comic book series published by DC Comics as a part of the Vertigo Imprint starting in early 2001 Codename Knockout is the title of a Comic book series published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics for 24 issues (numbered #0-23 Andy Diggle is a British Comic book writer and former editor of 2000 AD. Goran Sudzuka (born December 23 1969 Zagreb is a Croatian Comic book Artist who began his work in Animation and later began to publish with Kiernan and Joe Bennett
• Vertigo Pop: London #4 (Apr) by Peter Milligan and Philip Bond

Paul Pope's 100% #5 was cover-dated July 2003, but was not branded a "Vertigo X" title, likely due to delays in its release. Paul Pope (born September 25 1970) is an American alternative comic book artist.

Originally previewed as a "Vertigo X" title, Brett Lewis and John Paul Leon's The Winter Men was ultimately put back to September 2005, when it was released - under the WildStorm Signature Series label. John Paul Leon (born April 26, 1972 in New York City) is an American comic book artist best known for his critically-acclaimed work that envisioned Events April April 13: DC Comics announces the discontinuation of its Humanoids and 2000 WildStorm Productions, or simply WildStorm, (sometimes rendered Wildstorm) is a publishing Imprint and studio of American Comic book

Experimental works

In addition to the various sub-imprints and formats (on-going- and mini-series, prestige format one-shots on various types of paper and with varying numbers of pages, etc. Prestige format is a term coined by DC Comics but now in wider use to refer to a Square-bound Comic book with Cardstock covers ), Vertigo was also an early adopter of hardcover collections of monthly comics, as well as hardcover OGNs (original graphic novels). In addition, the 2003 one-shot Vertical featured dimensions unique in the comics field. Half the width of a "normal" comic, Vertical was also stapled at the top making it "twice as tall. "^[35] The dimensions were, while gimmicky, chosen delibertely to complement Steven T. Seagle's story, which revolved around tall buildings and, of course, feelings of "Vertigo. Steven T Seagle (born on March 31 1965) is an American writer who works in the Comic book, Television, Film, Live theater " (N. B. Vertical was not the first comics title to hinge on the "wrong" side. A tried-and-tested method for presenting newspaper comic strips, the 2003 DC Elseworlds story Batman: Nine Lives also used this method - although unlike those titles, Vertical is designed to be read vertically, and not horizontally. Elseworlds is the publication Imprint for a group of Comic books produced by DC Comics that take place outside the company's canon Batman Nine Lives is an Elseworlds Graphic novel published by DC Comics. )

Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess' Stardust was released by Vertigo as a heavily-illustrated novel, rather than a regular comic, and Vertigo has also experimented with the dimensions of their OGNs, releasing several that are of a non-comic-book-standard size, including Dave Gibbons' The Originals and Mat Johnson's Incognegro (which also featured somewhat experimental artwork, namely art - by Warren Pleece - that was fully back and white, with no "halftones or grays"^[36]). Charles Vess (b June 10, 1951 in Lynchburg Virginia) is an American fantasy artist and comic-book illustrator who has specialized in the illustration Stardust (1998 is the first solo prose novel by Neil Gaiman. It is usually published as a novel with illustrations by Charles Vess. Dave Gibbons (born April 14, 1949) is a British Comic book Artist, writer and sometime letterer Warren Pleece is a British Comics Artist. He is best known for his work at DC Comics Imprint DC Comics.

Notable Vertigo Editors

In addition to founding editor (and the driving force behind Vertigo) Karen Berger, several other editors have become intrinsically linked to the imprint. Karen Berger (born February 26, 1958) is an American Comic book editor Berger herself was editing proto-Vertigo titles from the start of her time with DC, beginning in 1981 with House of Mystery. ^[37] She took over editorship of Alan Moore's Swamp Thing run from Swamp Thing co-creator Len Wein in 1984, and in 1986 "became DC's British liaison," bringing to DC's pre-Vertigo titles the individuals who would be instrumental in the creation and evolution of Vertigo seven years later. Len Wein (born June 12, 1948) is an American Comic book Writer and editor best known for co-creating DC Comics ^[38] From 1988, her Swamp Thing and other DC titles were joined by Gaiman and McKean's Black Orchid miniseries and Hellblazer as well as the odd miniseries The Weird. Editing Doug Moench's The Wanderers, Berger was joined on issue #5 (Oct 1988) by co-editor Art Young, who would also later be instrumental in the formation of Vertigo. Douglas "Doug" Moench (b 1948 is an American Comic book writer probably best known for his Batman work Grant Morrison's Animal Man and the ultra-dark Arkham Asylum OGN were swiftly joined on Berger's slate by The Sandman, Skreemer, The Books of Magic, The Nazz and Shade, the Changing Man. Berger continued with The Sandman and Shade during 1992, and saw the pre-Vertigo titles as "all [having] some basis in reality. "^[37]
By the early 1990s, "[t]he core Vertigo titles had already become their own little enclave," so when Berger returned from maternity leave, she spoke with DC President Jenette Kahn and Executive Editor Dick Giordano, the outcome being a separate imprint to "actively expand [the] sensibility" of the titles she had been editing. Jenette Kahn is an American Comic book editor and executive She joined DC Comics in 1976 as Publisher, and five years later was promoted Dick Giordano (born Richard Joseph Giordano on July 20, 1932) is an American Comic book Artist and editor Berger included in the initial Vertigo line-up the five titles she had had some hand in creating or editing (Swamp Thing, Hellblazer, Animal Man, Sandman and Shade) as well as Doom Patrol which she "decided to include. . . because Grant Morrison was working on it and the sensibility was very much like the other series. "^[37] Berger has since overseen the entire Vertigo line, and was promoted to the position of "Senior Vice President — Executive Editor, Vertigo" in July 2006. ^[39] Berger's promotion came as Vertigo was said to be equivalent to "the fourth largest American comic book publisher" in 2005, with Paul Levitz praising her personally as having "built Vertigo into an imprint which is simultaneously one of comics' leading creative and commercial successes. Paul Levitz (born 21 October 1956) is an American Comic book Writer, Editor and executive "^[39] In addition, Berger won Eisner Awards for her editing in 1992, 1994 and 1995 for her work on the proto- and early Vertigo titles Sandman, Shade, Kid Eternity, Books of Magic, Death: The High Cost of Living and Sandman Mystery Theatre. The Will Eisner Comic Industry Award is a prize given for creative achievement in American Comic books It is named in honor of the pioneering writer and artist Will Eisner

Art Young joined Karen Berger to edit pre-Vertigo issues of Animal Man (from issue #3), Hellblazer and Swamp Thing on issues cover-dated November 1988. Two months later, Young also took on the initial issues of The Sandman, before in mid-1990 moving to Doom Patrol, which with Animal Man he edited until early 1991 (also over-seeing the original Books of Magic miniseries along the way). He then left DC to work for Disney in setting up Touchmark, before returning with those projects to Vertigo in early 1993, when he edited debut title Enigma, and later miniseries' and one-shots such as Sebastian O, The Extremist, Mercy, Rogan Gosh, The Mystery Play, and Tank Girl: The Moovy. Rogan josh is an aromatic Curry dish popular in India Rogan means Clarified butter in Persian, while Josh means hot or passionate He edited all four of the "Vertigo Voices" titles in 1995, as well as Shadows Fall, Ghostdancing, Egypt, Millennium Fever and both Tank Girl miniseries'. Young's last editorial credit for Vertigo was Flex Mentallo #1 (June 1996).

Shelly Bond (neé Roeberg) is probably the most prolific and wide-ranging (as well as the second-best known after Berger) Vertigo editor, long since installed as a Group Editor. Like Young, she has oversen a large number of notable projects during her (almost-)exclusive time working with Vertigo since April 1993. Roeberg took over editorial duties on the second Vertigo issues of both The Sandman and Shade, the Changing Man from Lisa Guastella - then Lisa Aufenanger - editing those two titles until their respective final issues; she also edited the first 36 issues of the "ahead of its time"^[38] crime/noir series Sandman Mystery Theatre. Between 1993 and 2000, she eedited titles exclusively for Vertigo (with one exception - the nine issues of Peter Bagge and Gilbert Hernandez's Yeah! (1999-2000) for DC's imprint Homage), including relatively little known titles and one-shots such asSkin Graft, The Last One, The Heart of the Beast (1994), Mobfire, Terminal City, Menz Insana, The Girl Who Would Be Death, Heavy Liquid, Pulp Fantastic and Accelerate. Peter Bagge (pronounced /bag/ as in ' Plastic Bag ' (born December 11, 1957) is a US Comics artist and creator of Buddy Bradley Gilberto Hernandez, (first name pronounced /heel-bear-toe/ born February 1, 1957, in Oxnard, California, usually credited as Gilbert She also edited the first Vertigo works of Bill Willingham and Ed Brubaker in Proposition Player and Scene of the Crime, and the higher-profile series' Moonshadow, Girl, Seekers into the Mystery, The Minx and all issues of House of Secrets (with Jennifer Lee from issue #11).
She (co-)edited the final 25 issues of The Dreaming between 1999 and 2001, initially as Shelly Roeberg, and latterly as Shelly Bond (after marrying artist Philip Bond), and most of the Sandman Presents. Philip J Bond is a British Comic book artist, who first came to prominence in the late 1980s on Deadline magazine and later through a number . . miniseries' and one-shots. From 2000, she has continued to edit most of the highest-profile Vertigo titles, including almost all of Mike Carey's Lucifer (with Mariah Huehner) and the entirety of Ed Brubaker's Deadenders, Howard Chaykin & David Tischman's American Century, Jonathan Vankin's The Witching, Si Spencer's Books of Magick: Life During Wartime, Steven T. Seagle and Kelley Jones' The Crusades and Bill Willingham's Fables (to date). Mike Carey (born 1959 is a British writer of Comic books, Novels and Films. Lucifer, in comics, may refer to ''Lucifer'' (DC Comics, a comic book series and character from DC Comics's Vertigo line Lucifer Ed Brubaker (born November 17 1966 is an Eisner Award -winning American Cartoonist and Writer. Deadenders is an Science fiction Comic book series written by Ed Brubaker and published by DC Comics. Howard Victor Chaykin (born October 7, 1950 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American comic book writer and artist famous for his Jonathan Vankin is an author and journalist Biography Vankin is a graduate of Brandeis University. Si Spencer is a British Comic book writer with work appearing in British comics such as Crisis, before moving to the American comics Steven T Seagle (born on March 31 1965) is an American writer who works in the Comic book, Television, Film, Live theater Kelley Jones (born July 23, 1962 in Sacramento California) is an American comic book artist best known for his runs on Batman Bill Willingham (born December 1956 in Fort Belvoir Virginia) is an American Writer and Artist of Comics. She oversaw the first fourteen issues of American Virgin, the first eleven of Jack of Fables, the first two Vertigo Pop! miniseries', Paul Dini's Zatanna: Everyday Magic and the innovative Vertical one-shot. Paul Dini (born August 7, 1957) is an American Television producer of Animated cartoons. She helped shepherd the OGNs Barnum!, Confessions of a Blabbermouth, 1001 Nights of Snowfall, God Save the Queen, The Little Endless Storybook, Re-Gifters, Sandman: Endless Nights and Silverfish as well as both Bite Club miniseries', Faker, 'Grip: The Strange World of Men, My Faith in Frankie and House of Secrets: Facade. From 2007, she has also been heavily involved in the new DC imprint "Minx", but is still editing titles for Vertigo, including the new 2007/8 series House of Mystery, Vinyl Underground and Young Liars.

Tom Peyer was, by 1990 editing (with Karen Berger) what would become the pillars of Vertigo - Hellblazer, Sandman (taking over from Art Young), Swamp Thing and Shade, the Changing Man. He soon left Swamp Thing to Stuart Moore, however with issue #100, and Moore would edit and co-edit the remaining 71 issues of that title, including the switch from DC to Vertigo. Stuart Moore is a writer of both Comic books and Novels Biography Moore's graphic novel work includes Para, Firestorm, Earthlight Peyer moved to Doom Patrol and Animal Man, which he edited during the transition from DC to Vertigo, before moving to edit the initial issues of Kid Eternity and Black Orchid as well as two "Vertigo Visions" one-shots. Peyer left editing behind in 1994, returning to DC as a writer. Moore edited a wide range of Vertigo titles between 1993 and 2000, including the transitional issues of Hellblazer as well as Swamp Thing, the first fifteen issues of The Invisibles, the first seventeen issues of Preacher and the first thirty issues of Transmetropolitan. In 1996, Moore won the Eisner Award for best editor, for his work on Swamp Thing, Invisibles and Preacher. The Will Eisner Comic Industry Award is a prize given for creative achievement in American Comic books It is named in honor of the pioneering writer and artist Will Eisner He edited the first issues of Books of Magic, and both Books of Faerie miniseries (with Cliff Chiang), and returned to the main Books of Magic title for a further 20+ issues with Chiang in 1998. Cliff Chiang is an American Comic book artist Formerly an assistant editor at DC Comics, he is now an illustrator best known for his work on Human Target He also edited several miniseries' for both Vertigo and Vertigo's sister imprint Helix. Helix was a short-lived Science fiction and Science fantasy Imprint of DC Comics, launched in 1996 and discontinued in 1998

Axel Alonso (who would later move to Marvel Comics) began his editorial career at Vertigo on Animal Man, Black Orchid, Doom Patrol and Hellblazer, and also edited the opening issues of Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso's 100 Bullets and the final issues of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's Preacher. Axel Alonso has been an editor on both DC Comics ' Vertigo imprint and Marvel 's Marvel Knights line winning multiple Eagle Awards Marvel Comics is an American comic book company owned by Marvel Publishing Inc Brian Azzarello (born in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American Comic book writer Eduardo Risso (born in 1959) is an Argentine Comic book Artist. Garth Ennis (born January 16, 1970 in Holywood, Northern Ireland) is an Irish Comics writer best known for the DC Steve Dillon is a British Comic book artist He is particularly known for his run on DC Comics Hellblazer and Preacher Preacher is a Comic book series created by writer Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon, published by the American comic book label Vertigo

Notable Vertigo Writers

Although the "mature reader" works of Alan Moore, Grant Morrison (with Jamie Delano and Neil Gaiman) under the DC imprint paved the way for Vertigo's launch, neither author was part of the initial line-up. Alan Moore (born November 18 1953 in Northampton) is an English Writer most famous for his influential work in Comics, including the acclaimed Indeed, Moore never produced work for the Vertigo imprint - having refused to work for parent company DC in the late 1980s - although his DC-published Swamp Thing work and V for Vendetta reprint-maxiseries were subsequently collected as Vertigo-issued TPBs, while the Hellblazer solo title dealt with the character co-created by Moore, but never written by him.

Launch writers

Grant Morrison, by contrast, whose pre-Vertigo work on Animal Man and Doom Patrol was similarly retroactively branded as "Vertigo" when collected (he also wrote two issues of Hellblazer pre-Vertigo, which are collected in a 2005 TPB) produced arguably his best-known work for Vertigo, writing three volumes of The Invisibles between 1994 and 2000. Grant Morrison (born January 31 1960 is a Scottish Comic book writer and artist Events January Avengers West Coast reaches its last issue at number 102 US publications --> Events and publications Year overall ===February=== Strange In addition, he has produced a number of mini-series' including Sebastian O (1993), the Doom Patrol spin-off Flex Mentallo (1996), Seaguy (2004), Vimanarama (2005) and We3 (2004-5), as well as the maxiseries The Filth (2002-3). Flex Mentallo is a Comic book character who first appeared in 1990 in issue #35 of Grant Morrison 's run on Doom Patrol as a member He also collaberated with Mark Millar on five issues of Swamp Thing (with Mark Millar) in 1994, produced two one-shots - The Mystery Play (1994) and Kill Your Boyfriend (1995) - and contributed to several multi-story anthologies. Mark Millar (born December 24 1969 is an award-winning Scottish Graphic novelist born in Coatbridge.

Of the eight debut Vertigo titles, half of them were the work of two authors. The most famous of the two, New York Times-bestselling author Neil Gaiman is inarguably Vertigo's biggest success story. Neil Richard Gaiman (ˈgeɪmən (born November 10, 1960) is an English author of Science fiction and Fantasy short stories and Gaiman actually came to prominence (in an interview held to discuss Vertigo-launch title Death: The High Cost of Living, Gaiman is described as "perhaps one of the most popular writers in comics today" whose "work is also among the most sought after. . . because it is synonymous with quality and high sales"^[4]) some four years pre-Vertigo with the launch of The Sandman for DC Comics, before it moved to become the backbone of the initial - and through numerous spin-offs continuing - Vertigo line-up. The DC Comic book series The Sandman may have concluded with Issue 75 but numerous comics novels and spin-offs continue to make use of its characters Gaiman's work on the initial Books of Magic mini-series (also released as a DC title, 1990-91) lay the groundwork for Vertigo's other long-running Vertigo Universe series, featuring young wizard Timothy Hunter. Timothy Hunter, often called Tim Hunter and whose true name is Timothy Hunter Tamar son of Tamlin The Opener The Merlin Magic is a fictional Comic book character

Peter Milligan, who began his career at 2000 AD, before working briefly for both Pacific Comics and Eclipse Comics gained his name working at DC/Vertigo, contributing two titles (one quarter of the initial line-up; the same as Gaiman) to the Vertigo launch. Peter Milligan is an British writer best known for his Comic book, film and television work 2000 AD may refer to 2000 AD (comics - The British Weekly Sci-Fi comic Pacific Comics (PC is best known as one of the independent Comic book publishers that flourished in the early 1980s but was also a chain of comics shops and a distributor Eclipse Comics was an American Comic book Publisher, one of several influential independent publishers during the 1980s and early 1990s His continuing Shade, the Changing Man, which was launched by DC (July, 1990) ran until issue #70 (Vertigo, Apr 1996), and the creator-owned 8-issue miniseries Enigma (1993) was the joint-first new title released by Vertigo. Milligan (and Brett Ewins)'s Skreemer, written for DC pre-Vertigo (1989) was subsequently collected by Vertigo, while his work on the sometime-DC character Human Target was released entirely by Vertigo as a 4-issue miniseries (1999), an OGN (2002) and an on-going series (2003-5). Brett Ewins is a British Comic book artist best known for his work on Judge Dredd and Rogue Trooper in the weekly comic Events January Invasion! crossover event in DC Comics February March April May June The Human Target is an American Comic book character created by Len Wein and Carmine Infantino: a unique Private detective and Bodyguard Milligan also produce the one-shots The Eaters and Face in 1995 for the "Vertigo Voices" subimprint, and a number of other miniseries, including The Extremist (1993), Tank Girl: The Odyssey (1995), Egypt (1995-6), Girl (1996), The Minx (1998-9) and Vertigo Pop!: London (2003).

Garth Ennis (Hellblazer) and Jamie Delano (Animal Man) were two other launch authors who went on to great success with Vertigo (and elsewhere). Garth Ennis (born January 16, 1970 in Holywood, Northern Ireland) is an Irish Comics writer best known for the DC Jamie Delano (born 1954 in Northampton) is a British Comics Writer. Ennis' best-known Vertigo work in his (and Steve Dillon)'s creator-owned Preacher, which ran for 66 issues (and six spin-off Specials) between 1995 and 2000, while his prolific work on Hellblazer rivals initial-series author Delano. Steve Dillon is a British Comic book artist He is particularly known for his run on DC Comics Hellblazer and Preacher Preacher is a Comic book series created by writer Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon, published by the American comic book label Vertigo Ennis has also written several miniseries' for Vertigo, including Goddess (1995-6), Pride & Joy (1997), Unknown Soldier (1997) and Adventures in the Rifle Brigade (2001-2) and eight one-shot War Stories between 2001 and 2003. Two of his pre-Vertigo works - True Faith (serialised in Crisis) and 4-issue DC/Helix miniseries Bloody Mary (1996-7) - have had collections released under the Vertigo label. Helix was a short-lived Science fiction and Science fantasy Imprint of DC Comics, launched in 1996 and discontinued in 1998 Jamie Delano was hand-picked by John Constantine's (co-)creator Alan Moore to continue his adventures in DC's Hellblazer (1988-present), but Delano left that title in 1991 before the launch of Vertigo, which found him writing Animal Man, which he wrote between issues #51 and #79 (1992-5). Delano also produced 17 issues of Outlaw Nation (2000-02) and the 12-issue maxiseries 2020 Visions (1997-8) and two Hellblazer miniseries' - The Horrorist (1995-6) and Hellblazer Special: Bad Blood (2000). He has also written two one-shot titles - Tainted (1995) and Hell Eternal (1998) - a couple of miniseries' - Ghostdancing (1995) and Cruel and Unusual (1999) - besides contributing to various anthology titles, and helping Gaiman and Kwitney write The Children's Crusade #2. Alisa Kwitney is an American author. Kwitney was born in New York City.

Rachel Pollack, who was writing Doom Patrol when Vertigo launched, continued on that title until February 1995's issue #87 when the series was cancelled (the Doom Patrol would later return to DC) has written little else in the comics field, but penned two "Vertigo Visions" specials - 1993's The Geek and 1998's Tomahawk. Nancy A. Collins, who wrote Swamp Thing between issues #110 (Aug 1991) and #138 (Dec 1993) also wrote the 1996 one-shot Dhampire: Stillborn. Nancy A Collins (born 10 September, 1959) is a United States Horror fiction writer best known for her series of Vampire novels featuring

Later writers

John Ney Reiber has produced most of his output for Vertigo, working exclusively for the company between 1994 and 2000. John Ney Rieber is an American comic book writer He has been writing for the comics The Books of Magic, Captain America, Events January Avengers West Coast reaches its last issue at number 102 Reiber wrote the first fifty issues of the first ongoing The Books of Magic series (May 94 - July 98), as well as a number of miniseries', mostly set in the wider Vertigo universe (and particularly the Sandman/Books of Magic sections) - Mythos: The Final Tour (1996-7), Hellblazer/The Books of Magic (1997-8), The Trenchcoat Brigade (1999), The Books of Faerie: Molly's Story (1999). The Trenchcoat Brigade is a four issue Comic books Limited series that was published in 1999 as a part of DC Comics ' Vertigo The Books of Faerie was a series of three mini-series spun off from Vertigo Comics' series The Books of Magic written by Bronwyn Carlton Reiber's Shadows Fall (with artist John Van Fleet) was a self-created horror story grounded in a reality which made the tale "all the more creepy than if the story was played out in the realm and scope of superheroes. "^[40] Reiber's Tell Me Dark, produced for DC, was collected in softcover by Vertigo, and he also contributed to various anthologies.

J. M. DeMatteis began his comics career on DC's House of Mystery title over a decade before the formation of Vertigo, and later became one of the earliest Vertigo creators thanks in large part to his proposed Touchmark projects. John Marc DeMatteis (born December 15 1953) is an American Writer of Comic books. The House of Mystery is the name of several horror-mystery-suspense anthology comic book series DeMatteis' Mercy (1993) one-shot and miniseries The Last One both debuted in 1993, with reprints of two creator-owned Epic Comics projects following in subsequent years: his 1985-7 creator-owned maxiseries Moonshadow was reprinted between 1994-5, with the miniseries Blood: A Tale seeing print again in 1996-7. Epic Comics was a creator-owned Imprint of Marvel Comics started in 1982 lasting through the mid-1990s and being briefly revived on a small scale in the mid-2000s DeMatteis also wrote fifteen issues of Seekers into the Mystery (1996-7) for Vertigo.

Mike Carey, having started his American comics career with Caliber Comics in the mid-1990s catapulted to prominence in March 1999 with the first issue of his Sandman spin-off miniseries Sandman Presents: Lucifer, which would lead to an on-going series a year later and considerable praise and projects for Carey. Mike Carey (born 1959 is a British writer of Comic books, Novels and Films. Caliber Comics or Caliber Press was an American Comic book publisher founded in 1989 by Gary Reed. US publications -->==Events and publications== January February March April A second Sandman miniseries - Sandman Presents: Petrefax (2000) - soon followed, before the June 2000 debut of Lucifer. Lucifer is a DC Comics character that starred in an eponymous Comic book published under the Vertigo Imprint. Neil Gaiman's preferred Sandman spin-off had not had an easy time being published, due to it's title and main character, but Carey was able to helm it for a Sandman-equalling 75 issues (and a 2002 one-shot - Nirvana) for 6 years. During this time, Carey also wrote the hardcover OGN Sandman Presents: The Furies (2002), over 40 issues of Hellblazer between 2002 and 2006 and a 2005 Hellblazer OGN, All His Engines. He also wrote a non-Sandman miniseries, My Faith in Frankie (2004), the comicbook adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere (2005-6) and the OGN God Save the Queen (2007). In 2007 he launched the ongoing series Crossing Midnight (2007-?) and the miniseries Faker (2007-8).

Brian K. Vaughan's first Vertigo work was a short story in 2000's Winter's Edge #3 anthology, which led to him relaunching Swamp Thing (Vol. Brian Keller Vaughan (born 1976, Cleveland Ohio) is an American Comic book and Television Writer. 3) (2000-01) which lasted for 20 issues. In September 2002, his (and Pia Guerra's) Y: The Last Man launched. Events January February March April May June July August September Pia Guerra is an award winning Canadian Comic book artist best known for her work as co-creator and lead penciller on the Vertigo title Y The Last Man Y The Last Man is a Comic book series by Brian K Vaughan and Pia Guerra, about the only man to survive the mysterious simultaneous It would ultimately run for 60 issues until March 2008. Vaughan also wrote the 2006 OGN Pride of Baghdad for Vertigo. Ed Brubaker's first Vertigo work was on the "Vertigo Visions" Prez one-shot (1995), and intermittant contributions to a couple of anthology titles preceded his Scene of the Crime (1999), effectively laying the groundwork for his later crime comics. Ed Brubaker (born November 17 1966 is an Eisner Award -winning American Cartoonist and Writer. Prez First Teen President was a four issue comic series by writer Joe Simon (the creator of Captain America) and artist Jerry Grandenetti His next Vertigo project - the post-apocalyptic series Deadenders (2000-01) - ran for 16 issues while Brubaker wrote for both Batman and Detective Comics for parent-company DC. Deadenders is an Science fiction Comic book series written by Ed Brubaker and published by DC Comics. Batman is an ongoing Comic book series featuring the DC Comics Hero of the same name. Detective Comics is an American comic book published monthly by DC Comics since 1937 best-known for introducing the iconic Superhero Batman His 2001 miniseries Sandman Presents: The Dead Boy Detectives told the story of some incidental Sandman characters, and was later retold by Jill Thompson in manga form (2005). The Dead Boy Detectives are Fictional characters that have appeared in Comic books published by DC Comics ' Vertigo Imprint. Jill Thompson (born November 20, 1966) is an American Comic book writer and Illustrator. ˈmɑŋgə is the Japanese word for Comics (sometimes called komikku コミック and print Cartoons In their modern form manga date from shortly Brubaker subsequntly took his Vertigo/crime sensibility to work from WildStorm, Icon and the mainstream DC and Marvel universes. WildStorm Productions, or simply WildStorm, (sometimes rendered Wildstorm) is a publishing Imprint and studio of American Comic book Icon Comics is an Imprint of Marvel Comics for creator-owned titles

Bill Willingham came to Vertigo after a plethora of small press work in 1999 to launch his poker miniseries Proposition Player (1999-2000), and contribute to the Sandman universe with a one-shot spy-spoof - Sandman Presents: Merv Pumpkinhead, Agent of D. Bill Willingham (born December 1956 in Fort Belvoir Virginia) is an American Writer and Artist of Comics. R. E. A. M. (2000) - and a single issue contribution to The Dreaming on-going series. A second Sandman one-shot - The Sandman Presents: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Dreams. . . (2001) - also led to a 4-issue miniseries, Sandman Presents: The Thessaliad (2002). Willingham's best-known work soon followed, with the July 2001 debut of Fables (with artist Lan Medina). US publications --> Events and publications Year overall February March In 2004, he returned to the world of the Sandman with Sandman Presents: Thessaly: Witch for Hire, and 2006 saw the debut of the Vertigo-esque magical - but mainstream DCU title - Shadowpact and Fables companion series Jack of Fables. In July 2008, with Fables nearing the end of its run, Willingham relaunched House of Mystery as a Vertigo title with Matthew Sturges. The House of Mystery is the name of several horror-mystery-suspense anthology comic book series Matthew Sturges (born October 1970 in Rhode Island) is an American Writer of Comics, most noted for the Eisner-award nominated Jack of Fables

Other notable people who have written for Vertigo include Kyle Baker, Warren Ellis, David Lapham, Mark Millar, Paul Pope, James Robinson and Brian Wood. Kyle Baker (born 1965 in Queens, New York City, United States) is an American Writer and Illustrator of Comic books as Warren Ellis (born February 16, 1968) is a British author of Comics Novels and Television, well known for sociocultural David Lapham (born 1970 is an Eisner Award winning American Comic book Writer, Artist, and Cartoonist, best known for Mark Millar (born December 24 1969 is an award-winning Scottish Graphic novelist born in Coatbridge. Paul Pope (born September 25 1970) is an American alternative comic book artist. Perhaps you want one of Brian Wood (illustrator, writer and artist of graphic novels Brian Wood (artist, artist and photographer

Notable Vertigo Artists

Several artists have also produced a large amount of notable work for Vertigo, several (Steve Dillon, Pia Guerra, Eduardo Risso and Darick Robertson) mainly producing lengthy runs on individual creator-owned titles (in Guerra's case, Y: The Last Man makes up around 80% of her output to date^[41]), but others on a number of titles. Steve Dillon is a British Comic book artist He is particularly known for his run on DC Comics Hellblazer and Preacher Pia Guerra is an award winning Canadian Comic book artist best known for her work as co-creator and lead penciller on the Vertigo title Y The Last Man Eduardo Risso (born in 1959) is an Argentine Comic book Artist. Darick W Robertson is an Artist from San Mateo, California, United States. Vertigo's main Universe titles - The Sandman, Hellblazer and Swamp Thing - have been particularly artistically diverse, and home to many talents, while the large number of creator-owned miniseries has seen large numbers of individuals producing work for Vertigo.

Artists

Peter Gross is one such artist who has been closely associated with Vertigo throughout his career - he even wrote the main Books of Magic series for it's final 25 issues (1998-2000) - as both penciler and inker. He worked on a pre-Vertigo issue of Swamp Thing, and an early (Vertigo) issue of Shade the Changing Man (#36, June 1993) before penciling & inking a story (as well as inking one by John Bolton) featuring Timothy Hunter in the "Children's Crusade" crossover Arcana Annual (Jan 1994). This led to a regular inking role on the newly launched Books of Magic series, taking over as regular penciler and inker with #6, a title he would stay with for most of its run (including later writing duties). Gross also inked Reiber's Mythos one-shot, and provided full artwork on the first Books of Faerie miniseries (1997) and pencils on the following year's The Books of Faerie: Auberon's Tale (1998). When Books of Magic ceased in August 2000, Gross moved to Lucifer (with October's issue #5) and penciled 56 of the remaining issues, as well as inking a handful. He also co-penciled 2005's Constantine: The Official Movie Adaptation and several issues of Douglas Rushkoff's Testament between 2006-7. Douglas Rushkoff (born 18 February 1961) is a New York -based writer columnist and lecturer on technology

Dean Ormston has similarly produced a disproportionate amount of his artwork for Vertigo titles, including the lion's share of the alternate reality Books of Magick: Life During Wartime series (2004-5). Dean Ormston is a British born Comic book artist. His most notable work has been for the British comic 2000 AD and for DC Books of Magick Life During Wartime is a Fantasy Comic book series published by DC Comics under their Vertigo Imprint His first Vertigo work was as one of several pencilers in the pages of Sandman #62 (Aug 1994), and in 1995 he penciled and inked Peter Milligan's The Eaters one-shot. His artwork appears in most (14) of the non-Peter Gross issues of Mike Carey's Lucifer, and he also handled art duties for Caitlin R. Kiernan's 4-issue The Girl who would be Death (1998-9). Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan (born May 26, 1964 in Skerries Dublin, Ireland) is the author of many Science fiction and Dark In addition, he has worked on a number of single (and jam) issues of other Vertigo titles, including The Crusdaes, House of Mystery, The Invisibles, Mythos, Sandman Mystery Theatre, Swamp Thing and Testament between 1994 and 2007.

Duncan Fegredo's first major American work was on the 1991 Kid Eternity miniseries with Grant Morrison. Duncan Fegredo is a Comic book artist born in Leicester in 1968 A 1992 cover for Doom Patrol similarly fell in Vertigo territory pre-Vertigo, while Fegredo's first "true" Vertigo work was also on the joint-first new series released by the imprint: Peter Milligan's Enigma. Immediately after the end of the 8-issue series, Fegredo took over as cover artist on Milligan's long-running Shade, the Changing Man (issues #42-50), collaborated with Milligan on 1995's one-shot Face (Jan) and then returned to cover duties on Shade, producing all but one of the remaining pieces of art. He produced pencils and inks for the miniseries Millennium Fever (1995) and (with Milligan) for Girl (1996). Between 1997 and 2002, he contributed artwork on fill-in issues (or to jam issues) of Crusades, The Dreaming, Flinch, House of Secrets, The Sandman Presents: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Dreams. . . , Totems, Weird War Tales and Weird Western Tales. In addition, his cover work graced the 1999 miniseries Sandman Presents: Love Street, six issues of The Books of Magick: Life During Wartime and the first fifteen issues of Mike Carey's Lucifer.

Jill Thompson, although primarily known as an artist, has also produced scripts for Vertigo, producing as writer-artist three Sandman tie-ins: The Little Endless Storybook (2001) and two manga retellings of storylines - Death: At Death's Door (2003) and The Dead Boy Detectives (2005). Jill Thompson (born November 20, 1966) is an American Comic book writer and Illustrator. Between 1993 and 1994, she penciled the first six issues of the on-going Black Orchid series and the 4-issue miniseries Finals (1999). She has contributed ten issues each to the high-profile Vertigo series' Sandman (penciling the complete "Brief Lives" storyline, part 7 of which was the first Vertigo issue) and The Invisibles, and penciled four of the last five issues of Seekers into the Mystery. Brief Lives (1994 is the seventh collection of issues in the DC Comics series The Sandman. She has produced fill-in issues of Books of Magic, The Dreaming and Swamp Thing and contributed artwork to the anthology comics Fables #59 (in addition to a story in the hardcover OGN 1001 Nights of Snowfall) and Transmetropolitan: Filth of the City.

Jon J Muth, a painter, has produced several lavish volumes for Vertigo, including writing, penciling, inking and coloring the 1998 one-shot Swamp Thing: Roots. Jon J Muth (July 28 1960 is an American comic artist His works include J Primarily, his Vertigo output has been in collaboration with JM DeMatteis, an issue of Blood: A Tale, the maxiseries Moonshadow (and its coda, Farewell, Moonshadow (1997)) and three issues of Seekers into the Mystery. Muth painted Grant Morrison's The Mystery Play (1994) and the 2002 Lucifer: Nirvana special for Mike Carey. His work also effectively ended Neil Gaiman's Sandman series, Muth painting issue #74, the final issue of The Wake storyline, and second-to-last main issue. The Wake (1996 is the tenth and final collection of issues in the DC Comics series The Sandman.

The artwork of Charles Vess has infrequently but notably accompanied the words of Neil Gaiman on Vertigo projects, including the 4-issue Stardust (1997-8) miniseries, later reprinted as an illustrated hardcover book. Charles Vess (b June 10, 1951 in Lynchburg Virginia) is an American fantasy artist and comic-book illustrator who has specialized in the illustration Vess' work can also be seen in the two Shakespeare adaptations in the pages of The Sandman, the first of which (pre-Vertigo) won the comic and duo the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story, and the last of which was also the final - 75th - issue of the series. William Shakespeare ( baptised The World Fantasy Awards are annual international awards given to authors and artists who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in the field of Fantasy. Vess also contributed a story to the Fables OGN 1001 Nights of Snowfall, illustrated a Books of Magic cover and produced an issue of The Dreaming (2000).

Sean Phillips earliest American comics work was in the pages of pre-Vertigo Hellblazer, and in May 1993 he became one of the early Vertigo artists by illustrating (with assists from Paul Peart and Sean Harrison Scoffield) the entire 16-issue run of Kid Eternity (1993-4). Sean Phillips is a British Comic book Artist, Inker, and Penciller. He drew the covers for twenty-three of the twenty-five issues of the first The Invisibles series and also returned to Hellblazer (switching from artwork and covers to just covers after around 20 issues) between 1995 and 1998. He drew three issues of Shade, the Changing Man (1994), the one-shot Hell Eternal (1995) and the miniseries The Minx as well as inking most of Michael Lark's work on Scene of the Crime. Michael Lark is an American Comics artist. Lark has provided pencils for DC Comics ' Batman, Terminal City He penciled four issues of the final Invisibles series between 1999 and 2000, produced covers for the Hellblazer Special: Bad Blood miniseries, and shared art chores with John Bolton on the 2001 miniseries User.

John Bolton, another frequent Gaiman collaborator has rarely worked with that author directly for Vertigo, but has utilised his characters, including in the OGN Sandman Presents: The Furies and the Books of Magic lead-in Arcana Annual. He also contributed to the Sandman Mystery Theatre annual, and the Fables OGN 1001 Nights of Snowfall. With Sean Phillips, he produced the artwork for Devin Grayson's 2001 miniseries User, and individually fully illustrated the OGN's Menz Insana (1997) and God Save the Queen (2007). Devin Kalile Grayson (birth name unknown is an American writer of Comic books and novels

Other notable artists include Chris Bachalo, Mark Buckingham, Guy Davis, Phil Jimenez, Jock, Warren Pleece and Liam Sharp. Chris Bachalo (born August 23, 1965) is an American Comic book illustrator known for his quirky cartoon-like style Mark Buckingham is a British Comic book artist. He is best known for his work on Marvelman and Fables. Guy Davis (1966-) is an American Comic book artist primarily known for his work on Sandman Mystery Theatre and various Hellboy Philip "Phil" Jimenez (born July 12, 1970) is an American Comic book Writer, Artist and Penciller " Jock " is the pseudonym of British comics artist Mark Simpson, most known for his work with Andy Diggle in 2000 AD and on Warren Pleece is a British Comics Artist. He is best known for his work at DC Comics Imprint DC Comics. Liam Roger Sharp (born May 2, 1968) is a British Comic book artist, writer publisher and some-time rock frontman

Cover artists

Inarguably the name most associated with Vertigo's cover output is the artist who provided all of the covers to the Vertigo's highest profile series - The Sandman series (1989-96): Dave McKean. David Tench McKean (born 29 December 1963 in Maidenhead, Berkshire) is an English Illustrator, Photographer, The first 46 of these covers were created for the DC imprint, but McKean's work also includes a number of Sandman-spin-off issues, miniseries and galleries. These include the two Death miniseries' and all 60 issues of The Dreaming (1996-2001). He provided the first 24 - DC published - covers to Hellblazer, and all 22 covers to the 1993-5 Black Orchid Vertigo series (which spun off from his - and Gaiman's - 1988 DC miniseries). He produced the first cover for Sandman Mystery Theatre and his work was featured in a 1997 artbook incorporating his Sandman covers - "Dust Covers: The Collected Sandman Covers, 1989-1997. " In addition, McKean's artwork also graced the inside pages of the public service comic Death Talks about Life (1994), an issue of The Dreaming (#8), two issues of the DC-published Hellblazer (#27 with Gaiman and #40 with Delano) and his and Neil Gaiman's OGN Mr Punch (1994). The duo's Black Orchid was similarly produced for DC, but retroactively deemed a Vertigo title.

Brian Bolland and Glenn Fabry have also produced a large number of iconic covers for the Vertigo line, Fabry probably being best know for his work on one title: Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's Preacher (and the spin-off miniseries'). Brian Bolland (born 1951 is a British Comics Artist, known for his meticulous detailed linework and eye-catching compositions Glenn Fabry is a British Comics artist known for his detailed realistic work in both ink and painted colour Bolland, one of the very earliest British creators whose work was brought to America, drew the first 63 covers for Animal Man, mostly for DC, but also the first 6 Vertigo issues before handing over to a succession of other artists. Bolland also drew the cover for Vertigo's first Doom Patrol issue and for the entire second and third volumes of Morrison's Invisibles (1997-2000) (and in addition provided artwork for the TPB collections of Morrison's Doom Patrol run, and all volumes of The Invisibles). Bolland provided covers for three issues of Mark Millar's Swamp Thing run (1995), and miniseries' including Vamps (1994-5), both Vertigo Tank Girl (1995-6) miniseries and BLod + Water (2003) as well as the one-shot Zatanna: Everyday Magic (2003). Tank Girl is a British comic character created by Damon Albarn and written by Alan Martin and originally drawn by Jamie Hewlett, and is currently Bolland also wrote and illustrated stories for the anthology titles Heartthrobs and Strange Adventures (1999) and OGN 1001 Nights of Snowfall, as well as providing a cover each for the Gangland and Winter's Edge anthologies. With issue #12, Bolland took over cover duties (from Fables cover artist James Jean) on Fables spin-off Jack of Fables, which he continues to produce as of June 2008. James Jean (born 1979 is a Taiwanese American award winning Artist and illustrator living in Los Angeles.
Fabry, in addition to his Preacher covers, provided covers for Ennis' miniseries Adventures in the Rifle Brigade: Operation Bollock (2001-2) and most^[42] of that authors first run on Hellblazer (1992-4) - which included the first Vertigo issue - as well as his return to the title in 1998-9. In addition, Fabry has also penciled a couple of short Hellblazer stories for various specials, and drew the covers for the Hellblazer: The Trenchcoat Brigade miniseries. He contributed to the multi-artist Transmetropolitan special "I Hate It Here" and provided three covers each to the on-going Transmetropolitan (2002) and Swamp Thing {Vol. 3) (2001); covered the complete Scarab (1993-4) miniseries, all 19 issues of Outlaw Nation and one issue each of the anthology titles Gangland, Heartthrobs and Weird War Tales. Scarab, in comics, may refer to Scarab (Vertigo, a Vertigo character and title based on Dr Fate Scarab (Nedor, a Golden Between 2005 and 2006, Fabry fully illustrated Mike Carey's adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, having previously collaborated with the man himself on a story in the 2003 OGN Sandman: Endless Nights. At the start of 2008, he provided a cover for an issue of Exterminators, before taking over from Lee Bermejo as on-going (as of June 2008) cover artist on, again, Hellblazer.

Other notable cover artists include Dan Brereton, Duncan Fegredo, James Jean, Dave Johnson and J. G. Jones. Dan Brereton is a professional artist and illustrator who has produced notable work in the comic book field Duncan Fegredo is a Comic book artist born in Leicester in 1968 James Jean (born 1979 is a Taiwanese American award winning Artist and illustrator living in Los Angeles. Dave Johnson may refer to Dave Johnson (Producer Sometimes called "Stiff" Johnson a Philadelphia Music Producer Dave J G Jones is an American Comic book artist. He is best known for his work as cover artist on various Comic book series including a stint on Brian K

Adaptations in other media

Film

• Constantine (2005), based on the (John Constantine): Hellblazer series of comics. Constantine is a 2005 American Film based on Vertigo Comics ' Hellblazer Comic book, with some Hellblazer is a contemporary horror Comic book series published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics.
• V for Vendetta (2006) based on the comics series by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, and produced by the Wachowski Brothers. V for Vendetta is a 2006 action - thriller Film directed by James McTeigue and produced by Joel Silver Alan Moore (born November 18 1953 in Northampton) is an English Writer most famous for his influential work in Comics, including the acclaimed David Lloyd (born 1950 is a British Comics artist best known as the Illustrator of the Graphic novel V for Vendetta, written by Biography Andy and Larry Wachowski were born to a Polish-American family in Chicago.
• The Fountain(2006), developed alongside the graphic novel by writer/director Darren Aronofsky (the OGN was illustrated by Kent Williams). The Fountain is a 2006 American science fiction / Fantasy film directed by Darren Aronofsky that follows three interwoven The Fountain is a Graphic novel illustrated by Kent Williams published in 2005 by Vertigo Comics, based on the original script of Darren Darren Aronofsky (born February 12, 1969 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American Film director, Screenwriter Kent Williams (b 1962 is an American painter and Graphic novel artist
• Stardust (2007), based on Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess' Stardust, adapted for the screen by director Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman. Stardust is a 2007 Fantasy Film from Paramount Pictures, directed by Matthew Vaughn. Neil Richard Gaiman (ˈgeɪmən (born November 10, 1960) is an English author of Science fiction and Fantasy short stories and Charles Vess (b June 10, 1951 in Lynchburg Virginia) is an American fantasy artist and comic-book illustrator who has specialized in the illustration Stardust (1998 is the first solo prose novel by Neil Gaiman. It is usually published as a novel with illustrations by Charles Vess. Matthew Vaughn (born 7 March, 1971 in London, England) is a British film producer ( Layer Cake, Snatch Jane Lauretta Goldman (born 11 June 1970 in Hammersmith, London) is an English writer and presenter of Jane Goldman Investigates

Future film projects

• Variety reported in June 2007 that Warner Bros. was developing The Losers with director Tim Story, with screenwriter James Vanderbilt working on a first-draft script by original writer-director Peter Berg;^[43] and in July 2007 that New Line Cinema was developing Y: The Last Man with director D.J. Caruso and screenwriter Carl Ellsworth. Variety is a weekly entertainment trade newspaper founded in New York in 1905 by Sime Silverman Warner Bros Entertainment Inc (or Warner Bros, Warner Bros Pictures) is one of the world's largest producers of Film and The Losers is the name of two largely unrelated series of Comics stories published by DC Comics. James P Vanderbilt (1976- is an American Screenwriter. He is the son of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt III (born 1949 Peter Berg (born March 11 1962 is an American actor Film director, producer and writer New Line Cinema, founded in 1967 is one of the major American Film studios Though it initially began as an independent film studio it became a Y The Last Man is a Comic book series by Brian K Vaughan and Pia Guerra, about the only man to survive the mysterious simultaneous DJ Caruso is an American director and producer from Norwalk Connecticut. ^[44]

• New Line Cinema announced in June 2005 that it had optioned We3, with that comic's writer, Grant Morrison, then in negotiations to write the screenplay. We3 is a three-issue American comic book mini-series by writer Grant Morrison and artist Frank Quitely, who describe its kinetic Grant Morrison (born January 31 1960 is a Scottish Comic book writer and artist ^[45]

TV

• HBO announced in November 2006 it was adapting Preacher as a one-hour television series, with a pilot episode written by Mark Steven Johnson and directed by Howard Deutch. Preacher is a Comic book series created by writer Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon, published by the American comic book label Vertigo A television program (US television programme (UK or television show (U A television pilot is a test episode of an intended Television series. Mark Steven Johnson, (born October 30, 1964) is an American film director and writer Howard Deutch ( September 14, 1950) is an American Film director married to actress Lea Thompson (1961 -) ^[46]

Computer games

• 100 Bullets was optioned and partly developed as a game, but cancelled. The license has been bought and an unconnected game is in development as of 2007. ^[47][48]
• Constantine, a spin-off based on the movie of the same name. Constantine is a 2005 American Film based on Vertigo Comics ' Hellblazer Comic book, with some

See also

• List of Vertigo publications

Notes

References

External links

• DC Comics' Vertigo official page
• SeqArt.com: "Vertigo Chronology", by Julian Darius
• Everything2.com: "The Complete Vertigo Comics Bibliography
• "Digging Deeper - Vertigo X" mini interview with Grant Morrison, Bryan Talbot and Chris Weston on their Vertigo memories

The Hollywood Reporter is a major trade publication of the Film industry in the United States.

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