Tag Archive | "Vertigo"

Steve Bissette’s forgotten comic wars

Saturday, March 20, 2010

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Over on his blog Steven Bissette, artist on Swamp Thing, Tyrant and publisher of Taboo is currently chronicling the trials and tribulations of the comic industry circa 1986. It’s fascinating stuff from an era when a lot of important things were just beginning to develop across the industry. Bissette’s subtitle to the series of posts [...]

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The Unwritten – it’s all about the story, all about the fictions

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

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The Unwritten Volume 1: Tommy Taylor And The Bogus Identity by Mike Carey and Peter Gross Vertigo / Titan Books This reads very much like Vertigo books of old, with all the high fantasy elements you used to get with Gaiman’s Sandman. And so it should, since it reunites Carey and Gross, who previously shared 70 odd issues [...]

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Best new cover for a loooong time

Saturday, February 13, 2010

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The new Vertigo series I, Zombie by Chris Roberson and Michael Allred has not one but two great covers. Although no matter how good Allred’s cover is, the Darwyn Cooke variant just blows it away: Described as “a smart, witty detective series with a mix of urban fantasy and romantic dramedy … told from female [...]

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Losers poster…..

Sunday, February 7, 2010

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This recently released movie poster for the new Losers movie does seem to point out one fundamental flaw in transferring comics to movies. No matter how good the movies are, sometimes you just can’t do it as well as the vision of an artist. It’s a great poster, iconic, striking, everything it needs to be. [...]

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Peter Bagge’s Other Lives

Sunday, November 22, 2009

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Fresh images from the Vertigo blog of Peter Bagge’s 2010 Original Graphic Novel; Other Lives. It does look good – don’t you think?

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