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Vertigo has 3 Anthony Award nominees for Best Graphic Novel

The 25th annual Anthony Award nominees were announced today. Vertigo leads the 2011 BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL category with three nominees:

Best Graphic Novel
Sickness in the Family - Denise Mina – Vertigo Crime
Beasts of Burden – Jill Thompson/Evan Dorkin – Dark Horse
Richard Stark's Parker, Vol. 2: The Outfit –Darwyn Cooke - IDW Press
The Chill - Jason Starr – Vertigo Crime
Scalped Vol 6 - The Gnawing - Jason Aaron – Vertigo

Tumor - Joshua Hale Fialkov/ Noel Tuazon - ARCHAIA STUDIOS PRESS

The awards are named after Anthony Boucher, a book reviewer and early champion of the mystery genre. The winners will be announced at the 2011 Bouchercon World Mystery Convention in St. Louis on the morning of September 18th.

Congratulations to all the nominees!

For the full list of nominees and more information about the Anthony Awards and the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention, please visit www.Bouchercon2011.com.

Denise Mina talks to USA TODAY

Scottish crime novelist and International guest of honor at this weekend’s Bouchercon, Denise Mina, spoke with USA TODAY about her Vertigo Crime graphic novel A SICKNESS IN THE FAMILY illustrated by Antonio Fuso.

Read the feature here with a 3 page exclusive preview and check out some other terrific coverage at FEARNET, CRAVE, COMIC REVOLUTION, BROKEN FRONTIER, LARGEHEARTED BOY, and INSIDE PULSE.

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A SICKNESS IN THE FAMILY preview

Award-winning Scottish crime novelist Denise Mina (A Slip of the Knife, Hellblazer) takes her psychological writing style to her first original graphic novel, A SICKNESS IN THE FAMILY illustrated by Antonio Fuso and with cover by Lee Bermejo.

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Meet the Ushers. (By the way, this name is no accident). The parents, Ted and Biddy. Grandma Martha. The three kids, William, Amy and Sam. Just a normal, middle class family gathered around the table on Christmas Day. Until they start dying very violent deaths. One by one. As secrets and resentments boil to the surface, it becomes clear there’s more than one Usher with a motive for killing off the others. But in the end, the truth turns out to be far more shocking than anyone in the ill-fated family could have imagined.

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Exclusive first look, A SICKNESS IN THE FAMILY cover!

The second is A SICKNESS IN THE FAMILY by award winning crime novelist Denise Mina in her first graphic novel and artist Antonio Fuso for Vertigo Crime.

Sometimes the greatest mysteries, and the most frightening horrors, occur right at home. I’m sure some of us can attest to that. Well, together, Mina and Fuso unravel a dark story of a family destroying itself from the inside out.

Check out the cover [Please note: The cover is not final]:

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Can you say creepy?

Come back at 2pm for another reveal.

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