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Imprint of comic-book publisher DC Comics
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DC Vertigo
Logo used since 2024
Parent companyDC Comics
Founded1993; 32 years ago (1993) (original)
2024; 1 year ago (2024) (revival)
FounderKaren Berger
Defunct2019 Edit this on Wikidata
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters locationNew York City
Publication typesComic books
Imprints
List
    • Vertigo Visions
    • Vertigo Voices
    • Vertigo Vérité
    • V2K
    • Vertigo Pop!
    • Vertigo X
    • Vertigo Crime
Official websitewww.dccomics.com/imprint/dc-vertigo

DC Vertigo, also known asVertigo Comics or simplyVertigo, is animprint of theAmerican comic book publisherDC Comics. Vertigo publishes comics withadult content, such as nudity, drug use, profanity, and graphic violence, that do not fit the restrictions of DC's main line. Its comics include company-owned series set in theDC Universe, such asThe Sandman,Swamp Thing, andHellblazer, andcreator-owned works, such asPreacher,Y: The Last Man, andFables.

Vertigo originated from DC's 1980s adult comic line, which began after DC stopped submittingThe Saga of the Swamp Thing for approval by theComics Code Authority. Following the success of two adult-oriented 1986limited series,Batman: The Dark Knight Returns andWatchmen, DC's output of adult comics, edited byKaren Berger, grew. By 1992, DC's mature readers' line was editorially separate from its main line and Berger received permission to manage them under a separate imprint. Vertigo was launched in January 1993 with a mix of existing DCongoing series and new series.

Although its initial publications were primarily in thehorror andfantasy genres, Vertigo expanded to publish works dealing with crime,social commentary,speculative fiction, biography, and other genres. Vertigo also reprinted comics previously published by DC under other imprints, such asV for Vendetta andTransmetropolitan. In North America, Vertigo pioneered a publishing model in which monthly series are periodically collected into editions for bookstore sale. Vertigo became DC's most popular and enduring imprint; several Vertigo series have won the comics industry'sEisner Award and have been adapted to film and television.

Vertigo began to decline in the 2010s, as certain properties likeHellblazer andSwamp Thing were re-integrated into DC's main comic books, while Berger departed in 2013. Berger's departure was followed by a series of editorial restructures. An attempted relaunch in 2018 suffered a multitude of setbacks, including numerous cancellations. DC discontinued Vertigo in January 2020 as part of a plan to publish all comics under a single banner. Most Vertigo series moved toDC Black Label until 2024, when DC revived the imprint.[1][2]

History

Development

Vertigo originated in 1993 under the stewardship ofKaren Berger, a former literature and art-history student, who had joinedDC Comics in 1979 as an assistant editor. Berger edited proto-Vertigo titles from the start of her time with DC, beginning in 1981 withHouse of Mystery.[3] She took over editorship ofAlan Moore'sSwamp Thing run from Swamp Thing co-creatorLen 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,[4] includingNeil Gaiman,Jamie Delano,Peter Milligan, andGrant Morrison.[5] She "found their sensibility and point of view to be refreshingly different, edgier and smarter" than those of most American comics writers.[5]

Berger edited several new or revived series with these writers, includingsuperhero/science fiction series such asAnimal Man,Doom Patrol vol. 2, andShade, the Changing Man vol. 2,fantasy seriesThe Sandman vol. 2, andhorror titlesHellblazer andThe Saga of the Swamp Thing.[6] She also edited limited series such asKid Eternity,Black Orchid (Gaiman's first work for DC)[7] andThe Books of Magic limited series.

These six ongoing titles, all of which carried a "Suggested for Mature Readers" label on their covers,[8] shared a sophistication-driven sensibility the comics fan media dubbed "the Bergerverse".[9] In a 1992 editorial meeting withPaul Levitz, publisherJenette Kahn, andmanaging editorDick Giordano, Berger was given the mandate to place these titles under an imprint that, as Berger described, would "do something different in comics and help the medium 'grow up'".[9] Several DC titles bearing the age advisory, such asGreen Arrow,Blackhawk, andThe Question (the last two cancelled before the launch of Vertigo), did not make the transition to the new imprint.[10]

Meanwhile,Disney Comics and former DC editor Art Young had been developing an imprint to be called Touchmark Comics, analogous to Disney's mature-audiencesTouchstone Pictures studio. This project was abandoned following the so-called"Disney Implosion" of1991. Young and those works were brought into the Vertigo fold, allowing Berger to expand the imprint's publishing plans with the limited seriesEnigma,Sebastian O,Mercy, andShadows Fall.[11][12]

Initial year

Vertigo was launched in January 1993 with a mixture of existing ongoing series continued under the new imprint, new ongoing and limited series, and single-volume collections or graphic novels. Their publishing plan for the first year involved two new titles – whether ongoing/limited series or one-shots – each month. The existing series (cover date March 1993) wereShade, the Changing Man (starting with #33),The Sandman (#47),Hellblazer (#63),Animal Man (#57),Swamp Thing (#129), andDoom Patrol (#64, with new writerRachel Pollack).

The first comic book published under the "Vertigo" imprint was the first issue ofDeath: The High Cost of Living, a three-issue series by Neil Gaiman andChris Bachalo. The second new title was the first issue ofEnigma, an 8-issue limited series initially planned to launch Touchmark, written by Peter Milligan (also author ofShade, the Changing Man) and drawn byDuncan Fegredo, the artist from Grant Morrison's earlierKid Eternity limited series.[11] The following month saw the debut ofSandman: Mystery Theatre byMatt Wagner andSteven T. Seagle, and illustrated primarily byGuy Davis, described as "playing the '30s with a '90s feel... haunting,film noir-ish...", and starring originalSandmanWesley Dodds in a title whose "sensibilities echocrime genre fiction".[11] Joining it wasJ. M. DeMatteis andPaul Johnson's 64-page one-shotMercy.

New series that began in the months that followed includeKid Eternity (ongoing) byAnn Nocenti andSean Phillips (continuing from the earlier Morrison-penned limited series), Grant Morrison andSteve Yeowell's three-issuesteampunk limited seriesSebastian O (another ex-Touchmark project),Skin Graft byJerry Prosser andWarren Pleece,The Last One by DeMatteis andDan Sweetman,Jonah Hex: Two-Gun Mojo byTim Truman andSam Glanzman,Black Orchid (ongoing) by Dick Foreman andJill Thompson (continuing from the earlier Gaiman/McKean limited series),The Extremist by Peter Milligan andTed McKeever,Scarab byJohn Smith withScot Eaton and Mike Barreiro, andThe Children's Crusade, acrossover involving several of the imprint's ongoing series.The Books of Magic limited series was relaunched as an ongoing series written byJohn Ney Rieber, and illustrated byPeter Gross (later also writer), Gary Amaro, andPeter Snejbjerg.

Although the books did not have a consistent "house style" of art, the cover designs of early Vertigo series featured a uniformtrade dress with a vertical bar along the left side, which included the imprint logo, pricing, date, and issue numbers.[11] The design layout continued with very little variation until issues cover-dated July 2002 (includingFables #1) which introduced an across-the-top layout ahead of 2003's "Vertigo X" 10th anniversary celebration. The "distinctive design" was intended to be used on "all Vertigo books except the hardcovers, trade paperbacks, and graphic novels".[11] Berger noted that DC was "very" committed to the 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 ofSandman [#47]", a "platinum edition" variant cover forDeath: The High Cost of Living #1 and a 75-centVertigo Preview comic featuring a specially written seven-pageSandman story by Gaiman andKent Williams.[11] In addition, a 16-pageVertigo Sampler was also produced and bundled with copies ofCapital City Distribution'sAdvance Comics solicitation index.[11]

Vertigo publications generally did not take place in a shared universe, but several of the early series which had begun as part of the mainDC Universe had a "crossover" in 1993-94:The Children's Crusade. The event "did not yield smashing results" or garnered many positive reviews, in large part due to its "gimmicky" nature, which ran counter to Vertigo's quirky, non-mainstream appeal and customer-base.[13] 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, defendingThe Children's Crusade as having come not from marketing, but the writers' minds, and therefore being "story-driven" rather than manipulative.[14] The crossover did not become an annual event, however — indeed, "annuals" linked to Vertigo series rarely reappeared after this event.

Works previously published by DC under other imprints, but which fit the general character of Vertigo, have been reprinted under this imprint. This has includedV for Vendetta, earlier issues of Vertigo's ongoing launch series, and books from discontinued imprints such asTransmetropolitan (initially under DC's short-livedsci-fiHelix imprint) andA History of Violence (originally part of theParadox Pressline).

Two of the new ongoing series did not last long:Kid Eternity was cancelled after 16 issues, andBlack Orchid continued for only 22.Sandman Mystery Theatre and most of the pre-existing series continued for several years, includingSandman which reached its planned conclusion with #75.Hellblazer was the last of the original ongoing series to be canceled, ceasing publication in February 2013 with #300.[15]

Berger wonEisner Awards for her editing in 1992, 1994 and 1995 for her work on the proto- and early Vertigo titlesSandman,Shade,Kid Eternity,Books of Magic,Death: The High Cost of Living andSandman Mystery Theatre.

Middle period

As the imprint's initial ongoing series came to their ends, new series were launched to replace them, with varying degrees of success.The Sandman was replaced following its completion byThe Dreaming (1996–2001) andThe Sandman Presents, which featured stories about the characters from Neil Gaiman's series, written by other creators. Other long-running series have beenThe Invisibles by Grant Morrison and various artists (1994–2000);Preacher byGarth Ennis andSteve Dillon (1995–2000);Transmetropolitan byWarren Ellis andDarick Robertson (1997–2002);100 Bullets byBrian Azzarello andEduardo Risso (1999–2009);Lucifer byMike Carey, Peter Gross, andRyan Kelly (2000–2006);Y: The Last Man byBrian K. Vaughan andPia Guerra (2002–2008);Daytripper byFábio Moon andGabriel Bá (2010);DMZ byBrian Wood andRiccardo Burchielli (2005–2012); andFables byBill Willingham,Mark Buckingham, and various other artists (2002–2015), which launched spin-offs includingJack of Fables by Willingham,Lilah Sturges (credited as "Matthew Sturges"), and various artists (2006–2011), andFairest by Willingham and various artists (2012–2015).

In 2003, the Vertigo imprint celebrated its 10th anniversary[16] by branding its books cover-dated April 2003 to February 2004 (i.e. released between February and December2003) with the labelVertigo X. This special subtitle was debuted on theVertigo X Anniversary Preview (April 2003), a 48-page special previewing Vertigo's upcoming projects and featuring a shortShade, the Changing Man story by Peter Milligan andMike Allred. Other projects highlighted includedDeath: At Death's Door,Jill Thompson's firstmanga-ized version of the "Season of Mists" storyline, and Gaiman's own return to the mythos with the hardcoverSandman: Endless Nights collection of short stories spotlighting the seven members of theEndless (an eight-pageEndless Nights Preview issue was also released before the hardcover).

Berger oversaw the entire Vertigo line, and she was promoted to the position of "Senior Vice President—Executive Editor, Vertigo" in July 2006.[17] Her 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".[17]

The financial success of many Vertigo titles relied not on monthly issue sales but on the subsequent "trade paperback" editions that reprinted the monthly comics in volumes, which were also sold in general-interest bookshops. Vertigo's success in popularizing this approach, beginning withSandman, led to a wider take-up in the American comics industry of routinely reprinting monthly series in this format.[18]

Vertigo Visions

Vertigo Visions was an irregular series of self-contained short stories featuring characters from the DC Universe, reinterpreted or recontextualized.

Vertigo Visions: Artwork from the Cutting Edge of Comics was a 2000 collection of artwork from various Vertigo titles, with commentary by Alisa Kwitney.[20]

Vertigo Voices

The Vertigo Voices featured creator-owned "distinctive one-shot stories".[21]

Vertigo Vérité

The short-lived "Vérité" line, evoking the realism ofCinéma vérité, "was a 1996–98 attempt to promote new Vertigo projects devoid of the supernatural qualities that had gotten to define the publisher".[22]

  • Seven Miles a Second (May 1996) byDavid Wojnarowicz andJames Romberger, published after Wojnarowicz' death fromAIDS, about his experiences of living with the disease.[23]
  • The System #1–3 (May–July 1996) byPeter Kuper, dealt wordlessly with "class warfare in the big city".[24]
  • Girl #1–3 (July–September 1996) by Peter Milligan and Duncan Fegredo, 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.[22]
  • The Unseen Hand #1–4 (September–December 1996) byTerry LaBan andIlya, a college student caught up in anIlluminati-like conspiracy.[25]
  • Hell Eternal (April 1998) by Jamie Delano and Sean Phillips

V2K

The "fifth-week event" brandV2K (Vertigo 2000), was a "much hyped concept" whose titles were designed to "usher...in the new millennium" and, as such, several of them were limited series rather than one-shots.[26]

Vertigo Pop!

The Vertigo Pop limited series were designed "to be about pop culture around the globe in some vaguely defined way".[27]

  • Vertigo Pop: Tokyo #1–4 (September–December 2002) byJonathan Vankin andSeth Fisher
  • Vertigo Pop: London #1–4 (January–April 2003) by Peter Milligan and Philip Bond
  • Vertigo Pop: Bangkok #1–4 (July–October 2003) by Vankin andGiuseppe Camuncoli

Vertigo Crime

Vertigo Crime, a line of graphic novels published in black and white, and hardcover,[28][29] was launched in 2009 with two titles: Brian Azzarello'sFilthy Rich andIan Rankin'sDark Entries, the latter featuringJohn Constantine.[28][29][30][31] Each volume features a cover illustration byLee Bermejo. Vertigo Crime ended as a sub-imprint in 2011.

The following original graphic novels have been published under the Vertigo Crime imprint (in order of publication):

Editorial changes, attempted relaunch, and discontinuation

Karen Berger left the company in March 2013.[32] Berger's position at the head of Vertigo was filled byShelly Bond, who had begun editing for the imprint in 1993. In 2016, however, DC "restructured" Vertigo, eliminating Bond's position,[33] and oversight of Vertigo was placed underJamie S. Rich, until May 2017 when Mark Doyle became the new editor.[34]

In 2018, DC Comics began a "line-wide relaunch and rebranding" as "DC Vertigo", including 11 new ongoing titles planned for the coming year, under Doyle's editorship.[35][36] These included a new sub-imprint based on Neil Gaiman'sSandman with four new ongoing series, announced in March,[36] and seven new series announced in June.[35]

The relaunch experienced a number of complications.Border Town byEric M. Esquivel and Ramon Villalobos dealt with immigration and Latino identity, for which Esquivel received death threats in advance of its publication.[37] The series was well received by critics, but after four issues were published, Esquivel was accused of sexually and emotionally abusing a former partner.[38] Villalobos and colorist Tamra Bonvillain withdrew from the project, and DC cancelled the series, including issues that were ready for publication.[39] Meanwhile,Second Coming byMark Russell and Richard Pace came under criticism from Christians and conservatives who considered its announced premise – in which Jesus Christ returns and lives as a roommate with a modern-day superhero – blasphemous and offensive. The series was cancelled before the first issue was published; Russell and Pace later published the series throughAhoy Comics.[40][41]Safe Sex by Tina Horn and Mike Dowling was also cancelled before its debut, and later published asSFSX byImage Comics.[42][43]

DC Comics discontinued Vertigo imprint in January 2020. The DC Zoom and DC Ink imprints for children and young adolescents were also eliminated. Under the new plan, all of the company's comics were published under the "DC" brand, and categorized by intended reader age: DC Kids (8–12 years), DC (13+), andDC Black Label (17+).[44] TheSandman-related titles retained their new branding as "The Sandman Universe".

2024 relaunch

In 2024, DC relaunched Vertigo imprint, after its discontinuation in 2020. Chris Conroy, editor of DC Black Label, became the main editor for Vertigo imprint.[2] In addition,James Tynion IV and Álvaro Martínez Bueno's seriesThe Nice House by the Sea was transferred from DC Black Label to Vertigo.The Sandman Universe line of books was folded back into the imprint as well.[1]

Creators

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Editors

Panel of Vertigo comics creators at San DiegoComicCon 2007.

In addition to Berger, several other editors have become linked to the imprint:

Art Young started out asKaren Berger's assistant[45] and worked on pre-Vertigo issues ofAnimal Man,Hellblazer,Swamp Thing,The Sandman,Doom Patrol,The Books of Magic,Skreemer, andKid Eternity. He then left DC in 1991 to work for Disney in setting up Touchmark, before returning with those projects to Vertigo in early 1993, when he edited debut titleEnigma,[12] and later miniseries and one-shots such asSebastian O,The Extremist,[46]Mercy,Rogan Gosh,The Mystery Play, andTank Girl: The Moovy. He edited all four of the "Vertigo Voices" titles in 1995, as well asShadows Fall,Ghostdancing,Egypt,Millennium Fever and bothTank Girl miniseries. Young's last editorial credit for Vertigo wasFlex Mentallo #1 (June 1996).

Shelly Bond was Vertigo's executive editor until 2016. Berger hired her as an assistant editor in the winter of 1992, making her the last of the original Vertigo team to join.[47] Bond worked on many of Vertigo's top titles over the course of her tenure, includingThe Sandman,Shade, the Changing Man,Sandman Mystery Theatre,iZombie,Paul Pope'sHeavy Liquid,Fables,Ed Brubaker'sDeadenders,David Lapham'sYoung Liars,Mike Carey'sLucifer, andThe Invisibles.[47][48] She was promoted to executive editor and vice president of Vertigo Comics in 2013, taking the place of Berger.[49][50][51] In April 2016, Bond was fired by DC Comics after restructuring.[52] "Shelly will never get full credit for all of the amazing things she did at Vertigo",Mike Allred wrote in 2016 in a tribute to Bond that featured many of the creators she worked with over the years.[53]

Tom Peyer was a founding editor of Vertigo.[54] Tom was editor in 1990 with Karen Berger what would become the pillars of Vertigo:Hellblazer,Sandman (taking over from Art Young),Swamp Thing andShade, the Changing Man. He later editedDoom Patrol,Animal Man,Kid Eternity, andBlack Orchid, as well as two "Vertigo Visions" one-shots. Peyer left editing behind in 1994, returning to DC as a writer.[citation needed]

Stuart Moore edited a wide range of Vertigo titles between 1991 and 2000, includingSwamp Thing,Books of Magic,Hellblazer,The Invisibles,Preacher andTransmetropolitan. One of his most important contributions to the line was hiring Garth Ennis to writeHellblazer. He helped start the DC imprintHelix, and broughtTransmetropolitan to Vertigo after Helix's demise.[55]

Axel Alonso began his editorial career at Vertigo editing titles likeHellblazer,Brian Azzarello andEduardo Risso's100 Bullets, andGarth Ennis andSteve Dillon'sPreacher.[56] He left Vertigo forMarvel Comics in 2000 and eventually ascended to the role of editor-in-chief, a title he held until 2017.[57]

Will Dennis attended film school with Bond, who later recruited him as an assistant editor. He was promoted to editor a few months after Alonso departured for Marvel.[58] Dennis took over the editing of100 Bullets and later editedBrian K. Vaughan andPia Guerra'sY: The Last Man and Vaughan'sPride of Baghdad graphic novel.[59][60] Dennis was responsible for bringing writersBrian Wood (DMZ) andJason Aaron (Scalped) to Vertigo and teamed writerAndy Diggle and artistJock on their breakout seriesThe Losers.[61] He was the editor who presided over the Vertigo Crime line of graphic novels.

Jonathan Vankin was hired as an editor at Vertigo in 2004 after previously writing two of the line's Vertigo Pop miniseries and several entries in theParadox Press "Big Book" series as well as several other non-comics works. He editedHarvey Pekar's Vertigo work:The Quitter hardcover and eight issues of Pekar'sAmerican Splendor autobiographical series. His other Vertigo editing credits includeThe Exterminators,Douglas Rushkoff'sTestament, novelistDenise Mina's run onHellblazer,Incognegro byMat Johnson, andThe Alcoholic by novelist and essayistJonathan Ames.[62]

Writers

Early writers

Alan Moore is strongly associated with the imprint for his work onSwamp Thing and his creation ofJohn Constantine,[63] but he never produced work for the Vertigo imprint, having refused to work for parent company DC in the late 1980s.[64] HisSwamp Thing work and theV for Vendetta reprint-maxiseries were retroactively collected as Vertigo-issued TPBs.[65]

Grant Morrison leftAnimal Man andDoom Patrol before the launch of Vertigo, but their work on those titles was similarly retroactively branded as "Vertigo" when collected. They wrote three volumes ofThe Invisibles between1994 and2000. In addition, they had produced a number of one-shots and miniseries includingSebastian O (1993),The Mystery Play (1994),Kill Your Boyfriend (1995), the Doom Patrol spin-offFlex Mentallo (1996),The Filth (2002–2003),Seaguy (2004),Vimanarama (2005),We3 (2004–2005) andJoe the Barbarian (2010).

Neil Gaiman came to prominence four years pre-Vertigo with the launch ofThe Sandman for DC Comics, a title that became the backbone of the initial Vertigo line-up. HisDeath mini-series was part of the Vertigo launch, and his work on the firstThe Books of Magic miniseries (also released as a DC title, 1990–1991) laid the groundwork for the long-running Vertigo Universe series of the same name, which featured young wizardTimothy Hunter.

Peter Milligan contributed two titles to the Vertigo launch. HisShade, the Changing Man was launched in 1991, pre-Vertigo, and ran 70 issues until 1996, by which time it was under the Vertigo imprint. He also wrote the creator-owned eight-issue miniseriesEnigma (1993). Milligan andBrett Ewins's 1989 mini-seriesSkreemer was subsequently collected by Vertigo. Milligan also wrote both aHuman Target mini-series and ongoing series, the one-shotsThe Eaters andFace for the "Vertigo Voices" sub-imprint, and a number of other miniseries, includingThe Extremist,Tank Girl: The Odyssey,Egypt,Girl,The Minx, andVertigo Pop!: London.[66][46]

Jamie Delano was the original writer of Vertigo's flagship seriesHellblazer, which spun-off from Moore's run onSwamp Thing.[67] Moore himself recommended Jamie Delano forHellblazer.[68] Delano left the series in 1991, before the launch of Vertigo, and was writing the imprint'sAnimal Man series at the time. His other Vertigo works includedOutlaw Nation,Ghostdancing, and twoHellblazer miniseries,The Horrorist andHellblazer Special: Bad Blood.[69]

Garth Ennis took overHellblazer from Delano and wrote it at the time of Vertigo's launch. Ennis's best-known Vertigo work was his and artist Steve Dillon's creator-ownedPreacher, which ran for 66 issues and six spin-off specials between 1995 and 2000. Ennis has also written several miniseries for Vertigo, includingGoddess (1995–96),Pride & Joy (1997),Unknown Soldier (1997), andAdventures in the Rifle Brigade (2001–2002), as well as eight one-shotWar Stories between 2001 and 2003. Two of his pre-Vertigo works —True Faith (serialized inCrisis) and the four-issue DC/Helix miniseriesBloody Mary (1996–1997) – have had collections released under the Vertigo label.[70]

Rachel Pollack, who was writingDoom Patrol when Vertigo launched, continued on that title until #87 (Feb. 1995), the final issue. She is known for creating the first openly trans superhero,Coagula.[71] She also penned two "Vertigo Visions" specials — 1993'sThe Geek and 1998'sTomahawk.[72]

Nancy A. Collins, who wroteSwamp Thing #110–138 (Aug. 1991 – Dec. 1993), also wrote the 1996 one-shotDhampire: Stillborn.[73]

Matt Wagner wrote the early Vertigo seriesSandman Mystery Theatre and co-wrote theSandman Midnight Theatre special with Neil Gaiman.[74] Wagner later wrote the 29-issueMadame Xanadu series.[75]

Later writers

John Ney Rieber has produced most of his output for Vertigo, working exclusively for the company between1994 and 2000. Reiber wrote the first 50 issues of the first ongoingThe Books of Magic series (May 1994 – July 1998), 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 (1996–1997),Hellblazer/The Books of Magic (1997–1998),The Trenchcoat Brigade (1999),The Books of Faerie: Molly's Story (1999). Reiber'sShadows 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".[76] Reiber'sTell 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'sHouse 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. DeMatteis'Mercy one-shot and miniseriesThe Last One both debuted in 1993, with reprints of two creator-ownedEpic Comics projects following in subsequent years: his 1985-87 creator-owned maxiseriesMoonshadow was reprinted between 1994 and 1995, with the miniseriesBlood: A Tale seeing print again in 1996–7. DeMatteis also wrote fifteen issues ofSeekers into the Mystery (1996–7) for Vertigo.

Mike Carey, having started his American comics career withCaliber Comics in the mid-1990s catapulted to prominence in March1999 with the first issue of hisSandman spin-off miniseriesSandman Presents: Lucifer, which would lead to an ongoing series a year later and considerable praise and projects for Carey. A secondSandman miniseries,Sandman Presents: Petrefax (2000), soon followed, before the June 2000 debut ofLucifer. Neil Gaiman's preferredSandman spin-off had not had an easy time being published, due to its title and main character, but Carey was able to helm it for aSandman - equalling 75 issues (and a 2002 one-shot:Nirvana) for 6 years. During this time, Carey also wrote the hardcover OGNSandman Presents: The Furies (2002), over 40 issues ofHellblazer between 2002 and 2006 and a 2005 Hellblazer original graphic novel,All His Engines. He also wrote a non-Sandman miniseries,My Faith in Frankie (2004), the comic book adaptation ofNeil Gaiman's Neverwhere (2005–6) and the OGNGod Save the Queen (2007). In 2007 he launched the ongoing seriesCrossing Midnight (2007–2008) and the miniseriesFaker (2007–8).

Brian K. Vaughan's first Vertigo work was a short story in 2000'sWinter's Edge #3 anthology, which led to him relaunchingSwamp Thing (vol. 3) (2000–2001), which lasted for 20 issues. In September2002, his (and Pia Guerra's)Y: The Last Man launched. It would ultimately run for 60 issues until March 2008. Vaughan also wrote the 2006 OGNPride of Baghdad for Vertigo.

Ed Brubaker's first Vertigo work was on the "Vertigo Visions"Prez one-shot (1995), and intermittent contributions to a couple of anthology titles preceded hisScene of the Crime (1999), effectively laying the groundwork for his later crime comics. His next Vertigo project, the post-apocalyptic seriesDeadenders (2000–2001), ran for 16 issues while Brubaker wrote for bothBatman andDetective Comics for parent-company DC. His 2001 miniseriesSandman Presents: The Dead Boy Detectives told the story of some incidental Sandman characters, and was later retold byJill Thompson inmanga form (2005). Brubaker subsequently took his Vertigo/crime sensibility to work fromWildStorm,Icon and the mainstream DC and Marvel universes.

Bill Willingham came to Vertigo after a plethora of small press work in 1999 to launch his poker miniseriesProposition Player (1999–2000), and contribute to theSandman universe with a one-shot spy-spoof,Sandman Presents: Merv Pumpkinhead, Agent of D.R.E.A.M. (2000), and a single issue contribution toThe Dreaming ongoing series. A secondSandman 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 July2001 debut ofFables (with artistLan Medina). In 2004, he returned to the world of the Sandman withSandman Presents: Thessaly: Witch for Hire, and 2006 saw the debut of the Vertigo-esque magical—but mainstream DCU title—Shadowpact andFables companion seriesJack of Fables. In July 2008, withFables nearing a major turning point in its run, Willingham relaunchedHouse of Mystery as a Vertigo title withLilah Sturges (then known as Matthew Sturges).

Other notable people who have written for Vertigo includeKyle Baker,Warren Ellis,David Lapham,Mark Millar, Brian Azzarello, Paul Pope,James Robinson, and Brian Wood.

Artists

Several artists have also produced a large amount of notable work for Vertigo, several (Steve Dillon, Pia Guerra, Eduardo Risso andDarick 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),[77] but others on a number of titles. Vertigo's main Universe titles,The Sandman,Hellblazer andSwamp 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.

Peter Gross worked on a pre-Vertigo issue ofSwamp Thing and an early Vertigo issue ofShade the Changing Man (#36, June 1993) before penciling & inking a story featuring Timothy Hunter in the "Children's Crusade" crossoverArcana Annual (Jan. 1994). This led to a regular inking role on the newly launchedBooks of Magic series, taking over as regular penciler and inker with #6; he would stay with the title for most of its run, writing as well as drawing its final 25 issues (1998–2000). Gross also inked Reiber'sMythos one-shot, and provided full artwork on the firstBooks of Faerie miniseries (1997) and pencils on the following year'sThe Books of Faerie: Auberon's Tale (1998). AfterBooks of Magic, Gross moved toLucifer (beginning with #5, Oct. 2000) and penciled 56 of the remaining issues, as well as inking a handful. He also co-penciled 2005'sConstantine: The Official Movie Adaptation and several issues ofDouglas Rushkoff'sTestament from 2006 to 2007.

Dean Ormston has similarly produced a disproportionate amount of his artwork for Vertigo titles, including the lion's share of the alternate realityBooks of Magick: Life During Wartime series (2004–5). His first Vertigo work was as one of several pencilers in the pages ofSandman #62 (Aug 1994), and in 1995 he penciled and inked Peter Milligan'sThe Eaters one-shot. His artwork appears in most (14) of the non-Peter Gross issues of Mike Carey'sLucifer, and he also handled art duties forCaitlin R. Kiernan's 4-issueThe Girl Who Would be Death (1998–1999). In addition, he has worked on a number of single (and jam) issues of other Vertigo titles, includingCrusades,House of Mystery,The Invisibles,Mythos,Sandman Mystery Theatre,Swamp Thing andTestament between 1994 and 2007.

Duncan Fegredo's first major American work was on the 1991Kid Eternity miniseries with Grant Morrison. A 1992 cover forDoom Patrol similarly fell in Vertigo territorypre-Vertigo, while Fegredo's first "true" Vertigo work was also on the joint-first new series released by the imprint: Peter Milligan'sEnigma. Immediately after the end of the eight-issue series, Fegredo took over as cover artist on Milligan's long-runningShade, the Changing Man (issues #42–50), collaborated with Milligan on 1995's one-shotFace (Jan) and then returned to cover duties onShade, producing all but one of the remaining pieces of art. He produced pencils and inks for the miniseriesMillennium Fever (1995) and (with Milligan) forGirl (1996). Between 1997 and 2002, he contributed artwork on fill-in issues (or to jam issues) ofCrusades,The Dreaming,Flinch,House of Secrets,The Sandman Presents: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Dreams...,Totems,Weird War Tales andWeird Western Tales. In addition, his cover work graced the 1999 miniseriesSandman Presents: Love Street, six issues ofThe Books of Magick: Life During Wartime and the first fifteen issues of Mike Carey'sLucifer.

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) andThe Dead Boy Detectives (2005). Between 1993 and 1994, she penciled the first six issues of the ongoingBlack Orchid series and the 4-issue miniseriesFinals (1999). She has contributed ten issues each to the high-profile Vertigo seriesSandman (penciling the complete "Brief Lives" storyline, part 7 of which was the first Vertigo issue) andThe Invisibles, and penciled four of the last five issues ofSeekers into the Mystery. She has produced fill-in issues ofBooks of Magic,The Dreaming andSwamp Thing and contributed artwork to the anthology comicsFables #59 (in addition to a story in the hardcover OGN1001 Nights of Snowfall) andTransmetropolitan: 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-shotSwamp Thing: Roots. Primarily, his Vertigo output has been in collaboration with J. M. DeMatteis, an issue ofBlood: A Tale, the maxiseriesMoonshadow (and its coda,Farewell, Moonshadow (1997)) and three issues ofSeekers into the Mystery. Muth painted Grant Morrison'sThe Mystery Play (1994) and the 2002Lucifer: Nirvana special for Mike Carey. His work also effectively ended Neil Gaiman'sSandman series, Muth painting issue #74, the final issue ofThe Wake storyline, and second-to-last main issue.

The artwork ofCharles Vess has infrequently but notably accompanied the words of Neil Gaiman on Vertigo projects, including the 4-issueStardust (1997–8) miniseries, later reprinted as an illustrated hardcover book. Vess' work can also be seen in the twoShakespeare adaptations in the pages ofThe Sandman, the first of which (pre-Vertigo) won the comic and duo theWorld Fantasy Award for Best Short Story, and the last of which was also the final (75th) issue of the series. Vess also contributed a story to theFables OGN1001 Nights of Snowfall, illustrated aBooks of Magic cover and produced an issue ofThe Dreaming (2000).

Sean Phillips earliest American comics work was in the pages of pre-VertigoHellblazer, and in May 1993 he became one of the early Vertigo artists by illustrating (with assists fromPaul Peart and Sean Harrison Scoffield) the entire 16-issue run ofKid Eternity (1993–4). He drew the covers for twenty-three of the twenty-five issues of the firstThe Invisibles series and also returned toHellblazer (switching from artwork and covers to just covers after around 20 issues) between 1995 and 1998. He drew three issues ofShade, the Changing Man (1994), the one-shotHell Eternal (1995) and the miniseriesThe Minx as well as inking most ofMichael Lark's work onScene of the Crime. He penciled four issues of the finalInvisibles series between 1999 and 2000, produced covers for theHellblazer Special: Bad Blood miniseries, and shared art chores with John Bolton on the 2001 miniseriesUser.

John Bolton, another frequent Gaiman collaborator has rarely worked with that author directly for Vertigo, but has utilised his characters, including in the OGNSandman Presents: The Furies and theBooks of Magic lead-inArcana Annual. He also contributed to theSandman Mystery Theatre annual, and theFables OGN1001 Nights of Snowfall. With Sean Phillips, he produced the artwork forDevin Grayson's 2001 miniseriesUser, and individually fully illustrated the OGN'sMenz Insana (1997) andGod Save the Queen (2007).

Other artists includeChris Bachalo,Mark Buckingham,Guy Davis,Phil Jimenez, Jock,Warren Pleece andLiam Sharp.

Cover artists

Dave McKean is the artist who provided all of the covers to the Vertigo's highest profile seriesThe Sandman (1989–96). The first 46 of these covers were created for the DC imprint, but McKean's work also includes a number ofSandman spin-off issues, miniseries and galleries. These include the twoDeath miniseries and all 60 issues ofThe Dreaming (1996–2001). He provided the first 24 DC published covers toHellblazer, and all 22 covers to the 1993-1995Black Orchid Vertigo series (which spun off from his (and Gaiman's) 1988 DC miniseries). He produced the first cover forSandman Mystery Theatre and his work was featured in a 1997 artbook incorporating hisSandman covers, "Dust Covers: The Collected Sandman Covers, 1989–1997".

In addition, McKean's artwork also graced the inside pages of the public service comicDeath Talks about Life (1994), an issue ofThe Dreaming (#8), two issues of the DC-publishedHellblazer (#27 with Gaiman and #40 with Delano) and his and Neil Gaiman's OGNMr. Punch (1994). The duo'sBlack Orchid was similarly produced for DC, but was retroactively deemed a Vertigo title.

Brian Bolland andGlenn Fabry have also produced a large number of iconic covers for the Vertigo line, Fabry probably being best known for his work on one title: Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon'sPreacher (and the spin-off miniseries). Bolland, one of the earliest British creators whose work was brought to America, drew the first 63 covers forAnimal Man, mostly for DC, but also the first six Vertigo issues before handing over to a succession of other artists. Bolland also drew the cover for Vertigo's firstDoom Patrol issue and for the entire second and third volumes of Morrison'sInvisibles (1997–2000) (and in addition provided artwork for the TPB collections of Morrison'sDoom Patrol run, and all volumes ofThe Invisibles). Bolland provided covers for three issues of Mark Millar'sSwamp Thing run (1995), and miniseries includingVamps (1994–5), both VertigoTank Girl (1995–1996) miniseries andBlood & Water (2003) as well as the one-shotZatanna: Everyday Magic (2003). Bolland also wrote and illustrated stories for the anthology titlesHeartthrobs andStrange Adventures (1999) and OGN1001 Nights of Snowfall, as well as providing a cover each for theGangland andWinter's Edge anthologies. With issue #12, Bolland took over cover duties (fromFables cover artistJames Jean) onFables spin-offJack of Fables, which he continues to produce as of June 2008. Fabry, in addition to hisPreacher covers, provided covers for Ennis' miniseriesAdventures in the Rifle Brigade: Operation Bollock (2001–2002) and most[78] of that authors first run onHellblazer (1992–94) - which included the first Vertigo issue - as well as his return to the title in 1998–1999. In addition, Fabry has also penciled a couple of shortHellblazer stories for various specials, and drew the covers for theHellblazer: The Trenchcoat Brigade miniseries. He contributed to the multi-artistTransmetropolitan special "I Hate It Here" and provided three covers each to the ongoingTransmetropolitan (2002) andSwamp Thing(Vol. 3) (2001); covered the completeScarab (1993–1994) miniseries, all 19 issues ofOutlaw Nation and one issue each of the anthology titlesGangland,Heartthrobs andWeird War Tales. Between 2005 and 2006, Fabry fully illustrated Mike Carey's adaptation ofNeil Gaiman's Neverwhere, having previously collaborated with the man himself on a story in the 2003 OGNThe Sandman: Endless Nights. At the start of 2008, he provided a cover for an issue ofExterminators, before taking over fromLee Bermejo as on-going cover artist on, again,Hellblazer.

Other notable cover artists includeDan Brereton,Tim Bradstreet, Duncan Fegredo, James Jean,Dave Johnson andJ. G. Jones.

Publications

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