DC unexpectedly dropped their (alphabetically) Vertigo and Young Animal announcements ahead of tomorrow’s panel. The biggest news is probably Milk Wars – a weekly crossover event between Young Animal and the DCU. Oh, sure – Mother Panic/Batman was going to happen at some point, but Doom Patrol/Justice League, Shade the Changing Girl/Wonder Woman or Cave Carson/Swamp Thing? No, […]
SDCC ’17: Shelly Bond’s Fall Launch of “Black Crown” Has Three Titles Dated
The last remaining remember of DC’s Vertigo imprint before cutting ties in the early part of last year, Shelly Bond has since moved on to a much more personal project. In October of this year, Bond will be launching Black Crown, an imprint with IDW. At this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, Bond along with writer […]
SDCC ’17: Vertigo teases the return of The Sandman
Revealed at the very end of today’s Vertigo creator spotlight, a panel featuring creators like John Ridley (The American Way), Paul Dini (Dark Night: A True Batman Story), and Scott Snyder (American Vampire), as well as Jamie S. Rich, and moderated by Mark Doyle, came a video tease no one was expecting. Fans were treated […]
Eisner Watch 2017: the inside scoop on how Simone & Davis-Hunt built CLEAN ROOM
In the week leading up to the 2017 Will Eisner Awards voting deadline this Friday, the Comics Beat will feature a series of “For Your Consideration” posts highlighting a number of the nominees as a celebration of their well-deserved acknowledgement. We’ll feature some never-before-seen behind the scenes content and some of the books’ gorgeous interiors. We encourage […]
Joe Hughes joins IDW as Editor
Welcome lunch for new and very welcome IDW Editor @JoeHughes28 today (w/@sarahgaydos @DavidHedgecock & @curiopraxis). pic.twitter.com/ntA0HlY7ed — Chris Ryall (@chris_ryall) June 12, 2017 According to this tweet from IDW CCO and e-i-c Chris Ryall the recent opening for an editor at IDW has been filled by Joe Hughes, formerly of NYC but now enjoying […]
Exclusive Vertigo August Cover/Solicit Reveals: ASTRO CITY #47, EVERAFTER #12, SAVAGE THINGS #6, and AMERICAN WAY: THOSE ABOVE AND THOSE BELOW #2
Get your first look at August’s upcoming Vertigo releases!
EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Bedlam strikes New York’s streets in SAVAGE THINGS #3
Twenty-Five years ago, the U.S. Government created a secret agency of “chaos agents” dedicated to eliminating enemies of state around the world. Then, they were considered too dangerous to control and were eliminated themselves. Or so the government thought. Now, however, as the Black Forest cell sows chaos in the streets of New York, they […]
Another ex-Vertigo editor enters the publishing game with Alisa Kwitney’s Liminal Comics
It seems Karen Berger and Shelly Bond aren’t the only ex-Vertigo editors who can’t stay away from the comics game. Alisa Kwitney, who worked at Vertigo back in the day has launched Liminal Comics, as an imprint of Brain Mill Press, an indie publisher that specializes in “love books for humans.” Liminal was set up at MoCCA […]
DC Imprints Vs. Indies Sales Band Report For February 2017
Periodically (pun intended), it’s useful to take a look at where the sales of a publisher’s titles are clustered. It helps widen the picture of how things are going. The idea is to break the sales chart into 10K slices. While it’s not particularly insightful to compare DC and Marvel to most of the independent […]
User by Grayson, Phillips and Bolton is FINALLY being collected by Image
Well here is some news that couldn’t make me happier. User, a book originally published by Vertigo around the turn of the century, is finally being collected at Image. It’s coming in May. I was an editor on this book (although Joan Hilly did all the heavy lifting) and I can say with a little pride that […]
