Enjoy!
Summer’s here and with it we’re releasing our summer reading list! Each day this week, we’ll give you a new recommendation from a different VERTIGO editor.
But don’t worry, we won’t be making you read books without pictures and there's no book report due at the end. Instead, we’ll be giving you the perfect comic to read at the beach, on a road trip or however you spend your summer.
Today, assistant editor Joe Hughes gives us his summer reading pick.
But don’t worry, we won’t be making you read books without pictures and there's no book report due at the end. Instead, we’ll be giving you the perfect comic to read at the beach, on a road trip or however you spend your summer.
But don’t worry, we won’t be making you read books without pictures and there's no book report due at the end. Instead, we’ll be giving you the perfect comic to read at the beach, on a road trip or however you spend your summer.
Summer’s here and with it we’re releasing our summer reading list! Each day this week, we’ll give you a new recommendation from a different VERTIGO editor.
But don’t worry, we won’t be making you read books without pictures and there's no book report due at the end. Instead, we’ll be giving you the perfect comic to read at the beach, on a road trip or however you spend your summer.
Today, we’re starting off with VERTIGO’s editor-in-chief, Karen Berger!
Considered by many to be "The Oscars" of comic book industry awards,the winners will be named this July at the San Diego Comic-Con International, the largest and oldest comic convention in the United States.
DC Entertainment congratulates all of this year’s nominees. For the full list click here.
And now for our 2012 Eisner Award Nominees:
Best Limited Series
FLASHPOINT: BATMAN – KNIGHT OF VENGEANCE, by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso (Collected in the FLASHPOINT: THE WORLD OF FLASHPOINT FEATURING BATMAN TP)
THE NEW YORK FIVE, by Brian Wood and Ryan Kelly (Collected in THE NEW YORK FIVE TP)
Best Writer:
Jeff Lemire, ANIMAL MAN; FLASHPOINT: FRANKENSTEIN AND THE CREATURES OF THE UNKNOWN, FRANKENSTEIN: AGENT OF S.H.A.D.E., SWEET TOOTH
Best Single Issue:
THE UNWRITTEN #24: “Stairway to Heaven” by Mike Carey, Peter Gross, and Al Davison (Collected in THE UNWRITTEN VOL. ON TO GENESIS TP)
Best Reality-Based Work:
MARZI: A MEMOIR, by Marzena Sowa and Sylvain Savoia
Best Publication for Kids (ages 8–12)
THE ALL-NEW BATMAN: THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD, by Sholly Fisch, Rick Burchett, and Dan Davis (Collected in THE ALL-NEW BATMAN: THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD TP)
Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books
THE SUGAR AND SPIKE ARCHIVES VOL. 1 HC, by Sheldon Mayer
Best Graphic Album—Reprint
WE3 DELUXE EDITION HC, by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely
Best Writer:
Mike Carey, THE UNWRITTEN
Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team:
Michael Allred, iZOMBIE
Best Cover Artist:
Michael Allred, iZOMBIE
Yuko Shimizu, THE UNWRITTEN
Best Coloring:
Laura Allred, iZOMBIE
Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books:
THE MAD FOLD-IN COLLECTION by Al Jaffee (Chronicle)
Best Publication Design:
THE MAD FOLD-IN COLLECTION designed by Michael Morris (Chronicle)
DC ENTERTAINMENT TO SHOWCASE “BEFORE WATCHMEN,” DC COMICS-THE NEW 52 AND VERTIGO AT KAPOW!
Leading Entertainment Company Will Bring Top Executives and Talent to UK Convention
DC Entertainment announced its plans today to bring some of the company’s top executives and creators to Kapow! to discuss the year’s highly anticipated BEFORE WATCHMEN comic book event, the record-breaking initiative that took the industry by storm this past September, DC COMICS-THE NEW 52, and the four new series from acclaimed adult imprint, Vertigo. On hand to discuss all things DC Entertainment will be Co-Publisher Dan DiDio, Vertigo Senior Editor and BEFORE WATCHMEN series editor, Will Dennis, Senior Vice President of Sales Bob Wayne, and a roster of major talent including Scott Snyder, Peter Milligan, Paul Cornell and Ian Churchill. This event, which takes place May 19-20, will be occurring only a small number of weeks before the release of the inaugural issues of BEFORE WATCHMEN on June 2nd.
DC ALL ACCESS - SPECIAL EDITION
Panelists: Dan DiDio, Bob Wayne, Will Dennis, Scott Snyder, Peter Milligan, Paul Cornell
Don’t miss this panel about the sure-to-be most talked about project of 2012, BEFORE WATCHMEN! Join DC Entertainment Co-Publisher Dan DiDio, Editor Will Dennis, and Senior Vice President of Sales Bob Wayne as they talk about this next game-changing event. They’ll also join writers Scott Snyder (AMERICAN VAMPIRE), Peter Milligan (HELLBLAZER) and Paul Cornell (SAUCER COUNTRY) to share the latest news on all your favorite Vertigo titles and discuss details about the new wave of Vertigo! No comics fan will want to miss this!
DC COMICS – THE NEW 52
Panelists: Dan DiDio, Bob Wayne, Scott Snyder, Peter Milligan, Paul Cornell, Ian Churchill
DC COMICS – THE NEW 52 is the industry’s most talked about industry-shattering event of the last year. Although the landscape has changed, we’re not done making news! Come by and be a part of history as DCE Co-Publisher Dan DiDio and Senior Vice President of Sales Bob Wayne discuss the books that are shaping the dawn of this new era along with some of the major talent writing and illustrating these titles, including Scott Snyder (BATMAN, SWAMP THING), Peter Milligan (RED LANTERNS), Paul Cornell (STORMWATCH) and Ian Churchill (THE RAVAGERS).
We like to stay busy over here at Vertigo, and our guess is that our readers are the same way. So, you’ve probably missed out on some of the big Vertigo news to hit the website this week. That’s okay, we understand. But we still want you to be informed. Informed people are interesting people. They’re attractive people. And we want our readers to be interesting and attractive. (We’d also like them to be very wealthy and take us on all-expenses-paid cruises to the islands, but we’ll settle for two out of three.)
This week we took an early look at FAIREST #2, announced a new AMERICAN VAMPIRE miniseries, and gave you a glimpse of what SAUCER COUNTRY looked like when it was just a pitch and a dream.
Here’s a review of what happened this week…
Who doesn’t like looking at Ali Baba and Sleeping Beauty, especially when drawn by Phil Jimenez? Well, feast your eyes on FAIREST #2, which we previewed on Monday.
We also announced AMERICAN VAMPIRE: Lord of Nightmares, a new miniseries to be written by Scott Snyder, drawn by Dustin Nguyen and starring Agent Felicia Book.
This week saw the release of SAUCER COUNTRY #1, a new series that mixes alien abduction with something even scarier—politics. Just for fun, we thought we’d share writer Paul Cornell’s original series pitch.
Finally, we wrapped things up this week by inviting you to join us for the NYC launch party celebrating the release of GONE TO AMERIKAY, a new graphic novel by Derek McCulloch, Colleen Doran and Jose Villarrubia.
That’s it for this week’s Vertigo Week-in-Review. We’ll see you good folks again next week (assuming we all survive WonderCon).
DC Entertainment Releases New VERTIGO App
And Announces SANDMAN Digital Comics Sale for $.99
Starting today, VERTIGO fans can download a new dedicated app featuring all Vertigo digital titles. The new app, available on the App Store, is free to download and features popular VERTIGO series THE SANDMAN, FABLES, Y: THE LAST MAN, PREACHER, 100 BULLETS, HELLBLAZER, AMERICAN VAMPIRE, THE UNWRITTEN, DMZ, THE INVISIBLES, TRANSMETROPOLITAN, and SWEET TOOTH, among others.
As an added bonus, readers who download the new VERTIGO app will have exclusive access to a three-day in-app sale that offers all SANDMAN digital comics for $.99 per issue. Written by #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, THE SANDMAN is one of the most acclaimed titles in the history of comics. Norman Mailer described the series as “a comic strip for intellectuals.” With a rich blend of modern myth and dark fantasy in which contemporary fiction, historical drama and legend are seamlessly interwoven, the series is considered to be one of the most original and artistically ambitious comic books of the modern age.
The launch of the app is timed to the release of four new VERTIGO series debuting each week this month, beginning with today’s publication of FAIREST by New York Times best-selling and award-winning writer Bill Willingham. A spin-off of FABLES, the series stars some of the fairest in the land and balances horror, humor and adventure. Each FAIREST storyline will explore the secret histories of one character, from Sleeping Beauty to Rapunzel to Cinderella to Thumbelina to Snow White and more. The first six issue arc drawn by Phil Jimenez (WONDER WOMAN, THE INVISIBLES) follows the misadventures of Briar Rose along with Ali Baba and the Snow Queen.
Also available same day digitally this month are the following new Vertigo series:
· SAUCER COUNTRY (VERTIGO / ongoing series / 32pg. / Color / $2.99), a dark thriller that blends UFO lore and alien abduction with political intrigue, all set in the hauntingly beautiful Southwest written by Paul Cornell (DEMON KNIGHTS, Doctor Who) with art by Ryan Kelly (NEW YORK FIVE).
· DOMINIQUE LAVEAU: VOODOO CHILD (VERTIGO / ongoing series / 32pg. / Color / $2.99), a high octane story set in New Orleans that blends the mortal and supernatural worlds, written by former editor-in-chief of The Source magazine, award-winning author, journalist and TV producer Selwyn Seyfu Hinds, with art by Milestone Media co-founder Denys Cowan (THE QUESTION) and John Floyd with covers by Rafael Grampá.
· THE NEW DEADWARDIANS (VERTIGO / mini-series / 32pg. / Color / $2.99), a murder mystery set among the world of the undead in post-Victorian era London, brought to vivid life by writer Dan Abnett (RESURRECTION MAN) with art by newcomer I. N. J. Culbard (At The Mountains of Madness).
“Making all of our digital titles available in one downloadable location provides readers even more accessibility to our vast array of ground-breaking stories. What’s better than that? I can’t wait to get the app on my phone.” said Karen Berger, executive editor, VERTIGO. “With four new series launching in March, this is the perfect time for fans to download the VERTIGO app and keep coming back each and every week.”
"As the digital landscape becomes increasingly crowded, this stand alone app underscores DCE's commitment to growing and spotlighting Vertigo by directly addressing its unique reader base,” stated Hank Kanalz, senior vice president of digital, DC Entertainment. “Vertigo fans can now access same day digital content faster and more conveniently on their iOS devices."
Click here to visit the App Store and download the new VERTIGO App.
Previews of all four new series are available for viewing here.
So, I'm writing this while sitting on jury duty in King's County (that's Brooklyn to those who don't know!) Supreme Court. I just got called to the empanelling room and the lawyers are trying to find us a room to do the "voir dire" ...we've been wandering through this antique building for twenty minutes and everyone is well pissed off. Not the best start for the attorneys or their clients. I'm struck by how suddenly real it is...these guys who've been through years of training, probably spent hundreds of hours preparing for this case, spent tens of thousands getting law degrees, spent thousands on nice suits, leather bags, slick shoes and they are stuck carrying a little wooden jury card holder that looks like something I made in woodshop in 8th grade jiggling the handles of locked doors. This then is really where the rubber meets the road. After all the prep, hype, drama, fear, etc, it basically comes down to a bunch of pissed off people who can't find the right empty conference room. What's this got to do with Vertigo comics? Not much, other then to say that at some point you've got to get down to what really matters. You've got to look past what you've seen online, what you've read in Previews, what I'm telling you on this blog, what you’re EXPECTING... and just judge a work on its own merits. On how it makes you feel. On what (if anything) it says to YOU. You know it when it's there...and when it isn't. Listen to that inner voice as you approach all of our new Vertigo offerings this year (and any titles you're already reading!) Everything else is just shoe polish and fancy briefcases. Peace & elbow grease, Will Dennis
