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On the editor's desk: Will Dennis

Tue, 12/15/2009 - 12:57pm | DCE Editorial

So the great part of being an editor is that you never know what will pop up in your inbox on any given day. the below are just a few of the super cool surprises that I received in the past few days. I won’t pick a favorite...but don’t let that stop you!

peace & hair grease,

will dennis

-- greek street goes greek? anyone reading GREEK STREET knows it’s a modern re-telling of Greek dramas...but this pencil page by DAVIDE GIANFELICE from issue #8 looks like the past has become the present. what!?

-- whos that girl on demo #3? if you’re at all like me, you write everything on post-it notes. I thought I was obsessive about it...until I read this issue of the brand-new DEMO series (issue #1 drops in FEBRUARY!)

-- philip bond “layout” for his page in an undisclosed project. try and guess who that camera belongs to. done guessing? (answer: shelly bond! haha)

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a sickness in the family, becky cloonan, brian wood, davide gianfelice, demo, greek street, lee bermejo, peter milligan, philip bond

THE BRONX KILL preview

Thu, 10/29/2009 - 7:00am | DCE Editorial

Vertigo Crime continues with THE BRONX KILL by Peter Milligan and artist James Romberger out in March 2010!

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From the Editor’s Desk: Will Dennis

Wed, 08/19/2009 - 9:00am | DCE Editorial

Blame The Killer Inside Me.

It’s spring of 1991 -- well, really winter since I was living in Ithaca, NY where it’s warm likes two weeks out of the year -- there was a big recession on, a war in Iraq, I was only working part-time (some things never change, right? jk) and I’m standing in an independent bookstore and this scary-ass face is staring back at me. It’s the cover to The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson. Never heard of him. But loved the jacket design (Day-Glo orange stripes with black type and a creepy black lizard on it) and so I picked it up.

Now, I’d read my share of Chandler, Hammett, Conan Doyle and even James M. Cain, and considered myself a mystery fan...but this book was CRIME. This was a twisted book about a deputy sheriff who had some serious problems. I read half the book standing in the store and the rest that afternoon. I read it again the next day and knew I needed more...

And holy hell, there was more...Willeford, Goodis, Williams, MacDonald, Himes and on and on. It was grimy, sexy, visceral, mind-blowing work and I felt like a poseur cuz I’d never heard of any of them. But I trusted whoever these Vintage Black Lizard geniuses were and I was never the same. The one time in my life when you really could judge a book by its cover.

Which brings us to VERTIGO CRIME...where we’re trying to capture that same flavor. A line of books by some of today’s best crime writers – IAN RANKIN, BRIAN AZZARELLO, JASON STARR, PETER MILLIGAN, CHRISTOS GAGE, DENISE MINA, MAX ALLAN COLLINS and many more – that we believe can proudly sit alongside the best “regular” crime fiction out there.

The first two – DARK ENTRIES by Rankin & Dell’Edera and FILTHY RICH by Azzarello & Santos – drop today in comic shops and next Tuesday in bookstores. They’ve got eye-popping covers (from Lee Bermejo of JOKER fame) and I really hope you’ll take a taste.

Cuz who knows...maybe in twenty years, you’ll be blogging about how VERTIGO CRIME changed your life forever.

God help you.

will dennis

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black lizard, brian azzarello, christos gage, dark entries, denise mina, filthy rich, ian rankin, jason starr, joker, lee bermejo, max allen collins, peter milligan, vertigo crime, victor santos, vintage, werther dell'edera

Taking it to the ‘STREET’

Thu, 06/25/2009 - 8:59am | DCE Editorial

Just days away from publication and GREEK STREET has people (well, not just any people, some of the most renowned names in comic history) yelling its praises from the US and across the pond from London. Ah, London, the setting of GREEK STREET and all its glorious inhabitants.

“Sex, death, ambition, revenge and a reminder that some stories are too true and too dangerous to ever die. GREEK STREET crackles with Promethean fire.” —Grant Morrison

“A mind-bending mashup of ancient myth and modern mayhem!” —Dave Gibbons, artist of WATCHMEN

"A new monthly from the man who brought us Skin, Skreemer and Bad Company? Count me in!" —Garth Ennis, writer of PREACHER

"A spellbinding blend of modern crime and classical tragedy, GREEK STREET sparkles with wit, style and energy, yet is as brutal and unrelenting as the mythical Furies themselves. I can't get enough of it." —Cliff Chiang

And for those of us looking forward to shouting TGIF! we have this toast to GREEK STREET by Lee Bermejo, artist of the NEW YORK TIMES bestseller, JOKER:

“Milligan & Gianfelice mix delicious elixir with GREEK STREET. With a combination of totally unique characters, challenging themes, and a complex, multi-layered narrative, you've got one hell of a stiff drink. It's aged well, with the smooth taste of Greek tragedy mixed with the tart bite of urban noir. But don't just down it...SIP it. Let the flavors sink in and then go back for some more.”

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Check out the character bios at MYSPACE

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cliff chiang, dave gibbons, davide gianfelice, garth ennis, grant morrison, greek street, lee bermejo, peter milligan

Crime Line

Thu, 06/18/2009 - 9:00am | DCE Editorial

The Vertigo Crime Line is launching this August with FILTHY RICH by Brian Azzarello and artist Victor Santos and DARK ENTRIES by Ian Rankin and artist Werther Dell'Edera.

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY raves about DARK ENTRIES, saying “Dell'Edera's work is expressive and crisp, done almost entirely in sharp pure black inks with barely a hint of shading in sight, with an elegance to horror sequences that's far more Dante than slasher film. Possibly the best Hellblazer work in years and a strong ghost story in its own right.”

The GRAPHIC NOVEL REPORTER chose DARK ENTRIES and THE NOBODY as two of the Hottest Graphic Novels of Summer 2009. Click here for the complete list.

This line of compact, black and white hardcover graphic novels with covers by superstar Lee Bermejo is sure to consist of everything crime and mystery fans crave: the police procedural, the murder mystery, the sci-fi thriller, and straight up hardboiled noir—and next Spring’s releases are no exception.

Here’s a sneak peek at the cover to the next book in the Crime Line. THE CHILL by Jason Starr and artist Mick Bertilorenzi:

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