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Karen Berger
Karen Berger (; born February 26, 1958) is an American comic book editor. She is best known for her role in helping create DC Comics' Vertigo imprint in 1993 and serving as the line's Executive Editor until 2013. She currently oversees Berger Books, an imprint of creator-owned comics being published by Dark Horse Comics. Biography Berger majored in English literature and art history at Brooklyn College, and upon her graduation in 1979, she entered the comics profession as an assistant to editor Paul Levitz at DC. She later became Levitz's editor when he was writing ''Legion of Super-Heroes''. More interested in horror comics, she soon became editor of ''House of Mystery'', and was instrumental in nurturing Alan Moore's ''Swamp Thing'' book, taking over the editing from co-creator Len Wein. She also edited '' Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld''. She later helped bring Neil Gaiman's work to a mass audience by having him write ''The Sandman''. The success of these titles, and h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eisner Award For Best Editor
The Eisner Award The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, commonly shortened to the Eisner Awards, are awards for creative achievement in American comic books. They are regarded as the most prestigious and significant awards in the comic industry and often referred ... for Best Editor is a defunct award for "creative achievement" in American comic books. It was given out every year between 1992 and 1997. Winners and nominees Notes References {{Eisner Awards Eisner Award winners 1992 establishments in the United States Former awards Awards established in 1992 Comic book editors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Len Wein
Leonard Norman Wein (; June 12, 1948 – September 10, 2017) was an American comic book writer and editor best known for co-creating DC Comics' Swamp Thing and Marvel Comics' Wolverine (character), Wolverine, and for helping revive the Marvel superhero team the X-Men (including the co-creation of Nightcrawler (character), Nightcrawler, Storm (Marvel Comics), Storm, and Colossus (character), Colossus). Additionally, he was the editor for writer Alan Moore and illustrator Dave Gibbons' influential DC miniseries ''Watchmen''. Wein was inducted into the List of Eisner Award winners#The Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame, Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2008. Early life and education Wein was born on June 12, 1948, in New York City, and was raised in a American Jews, Jewish household. One of two children of Phillip and Rosalyn (née Bauman) Wein, he lived in The Bronx until age 7, when he moved with his family to Levittown, New York, on Long Island. There he graduated from Division ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minx (comics)
Minx was an imprint of DC Comics that published graphic novels aimed at teenage girls. It ran from 2007 to 2008. History Launch Minx was announced in November 2006, following several years of planning. Senior Vice President Karen Berger and Group Editor Shelly Bond were supervising the imprint. DC had contracted Alloy Marketing + Media to market the line's books, with a budget of $125,000 to $250,000. Berger said that the success of translated manga and Marjane Satrapi's ''Persepolis'' among teenage girls helped motivate the creation of the imprint. Rachel Kitzmann, a Los Angeles Public librarian, emphasized that the Minx imprint was focused "on real world, plausible situations" and that the "''MINX'' books are an attempt to contract two different formats: the content of YA literature with various types of art. ..The content of MINX diverged from the traditional aim as American comic books don't typically put the focus on an internal emotional journey, and even manga aimed a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heidi MacDonald
Heidi MacDonald (born November 15) is an American writer and editor of comic books based in New York City. She runs the comics industry news blog '' The Beat''. Career MacDonald is a former editor for DC Comics' Vertigo imprint and ''Disney Adventures''. In 1993 she was one of the founders of Friends of Lulu, an advocacy organization designed to promote readership of comic books by women and the participation of women in the comic book industry. (One of the organization's other founders, Trina Robbins, described MacDonald as "''the'' founding mommy" of Friends of Lulu.) In 2005, MacDonald was given the Women of Distinction Award by Friends of Lulu. In 2007, MacDonald edited the graphic novel '' The Hills Have Eyes: The Beginning'' from Fox Atomic Comics, that was a prequel to the 2006 film. From about 2006 to 2010, MacDonald also was an editor and writer at ''Publishers Weekly'', where she co-wrote ''PW Comics Week''. In January 2016, MacDonald announced she was laid off f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Bruning
Richard Bruning (born February 7, 1953) In print issue #1650 (February 2009), p. 107 is an American graphic designer and comics creator. Biography In 1979, Richard Bruning opened a design firm in Madison, Wisconsin, called Abraxas Studios. In the early 1980s, on staff at Capital Comics, he was editor-in-chief and art director for such publications as ''Nexus'', ''Badger'' and '' Whisper'' until the company ceased operation in 1984. After a year of freelancing in San Francisco, he moved to New York City in 1985 to become DC Comics’ design director. For the next five years he supervised and/or contributed to the design of titles including ''Watchmen'' and '' Batman: The Dark Knight Returns'', as well as editing the DC-produced official sequel to the ITC TV series ''The Prisoner'', '' Shattered Visage''. He designed the branding of and logo design for DC's Vertigo (comics) mature-readers imprint. He also oversaw the development and packaging of graphic novels and DC's fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Man
''The Last Man'' is an apocalyptic, dystopian science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, first published in 1826. The narrative concerns Europe in the late 21st century, ravaged by the rise of a bubonic plague pandemic that rapidly sweeps across the entire globe, ultimately resulting in the near-extinction of humanity. It also includes discussion of the British state as a republic, for which Shelley sat in meetings of the House of Commons to gain insight to the governmental system of the Romantic era. The novel includes many fictive allusions to her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, who drowned in a shipwreck four years before the book's publication, as well as their close friend Lord Byron, who had died two years previously. ''The Last Man'' is one of the first pieces of dystopian fiction published. It was critically savaged and remained largely obscure at the time of its publication. It was not until the 1960s that the novel resurfaced for the public. Characters Lionel Verney: The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
V For Vendetta
''V for Vendetta'' is a British graphic novel written by Alan Moore and illustrated by David Lloyd (comics), David Lloyd (with additional art by Tony Weare). Initially published between 1982 and 1985 in black and white as an ongoing Serial (literature), serial in the British anthology ''Warrior (comics), Warrior'', its serialisation was completed in 1988–89 in a ten-issue colour limited series published by DC Comics in the United States. Subsequent collected editions were typically published under DC's specialised imprint, Vertigo (DC Comics), Vertigo, until that label was shut down in 2018. Since then it has been transferred to DC Black Label. The story depicts a dystopian and apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, post-apocalyptic near-future history version of the United Kingdom in the 1990s, preceded by a nuclear war in the 1980s that devastated most of the rest of the world. The Nordicism, Nordic supremacist, Neo-fascism, neo-fascist, outwardly Christofascism, Christof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Preacher (comics)
''Preacher'' is an American comic book series published from 1995 to 2000 by Vertigo, an imprint of DC Comics. The series was created by writer Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon, with painted covers by Glenn Fabry. It won the Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series in 1999. The series consists of 75 issues in total – 66 regular, monthly issues, five one-shot specials, and a four-issue ''Preacher: Saint of Killers'' limited series. The final monthly issue, number 66, was published in October 2000, with an epilogue published in Ennis' subsequent series '' The Boys'' in February 2009. The entire run has been collected in four series of collected editions: an original nine volume run of trade paperbacks, a second run of six trade paperbacks/hardcovers, three extra oversized "''Absolute Preacher''" volumes, and two oversized omnibus volumes. A television series adaptation, ''Preacher'', aired for 43 episodes over four seasons on AMC, from 2016 to 2019. Plot ''Preacher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
100 Bullets
''100 Bullets'' is an American comic book published by DC Comics under its Vertigo imprint. Written by Brian Azzarello and illustrated by Eduardo Risso, the comic book ran for 100 issues and won the Eisner Award and Harvey Award. Style Both the writing and artwork in ''100 Bullets'' exemplifies the noir and pulp genres of popular modern fiction. Consistent with noir convention, most of the characters are deeply flawed. As is also common in pulp and noir genres, ''100 Bullets'' frequently portrays stylized and graphic violence. ''100 Bullets'' is notable for creator Brian Azzarello's realistic use of regional and local accents, as well as the frequent use of slang and oblique, metaphorical language in his characters' dialogue. Initially presented as a series of self-contained episodic stories, ''100 Bullets'' developed into a sprawling crime saga in which all the characters and events were connected. Plot The core concept of ''100 Bullets'' is based on the question of people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Invisibles
''The Invisibles'' is a comic book series published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics from 1994 to 2000. It was created and scripted by Scottish writer Grant Morrison, and drawn by various artists throughout its publication. The series loosely follows the doings of a single cell of The Invisible College, a secret organization battling against physical and psychic oppression using time travel, magic, meditation, and physical violence.Thomas, Jared (2011-9-7).Words & Pictures (for sub-literates): The Invisibles Volume 1". ''Frontier Psychiatrist''. Retrieved 2011-9-8. For most of the series, the team includes leader King Mob; Lord Fanny, a transgender Brazilian shaman; Boy, a former member of the NYPD; Ragged Robin, a telepath with a mysterious past; and Jack Frost, a young hooligan from Liverpool who may be the next Buddha. Their enemies are the Archons of the Outer Church, interdimensional alien gods who have already enslaved most of the human race without their know ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hellblazer
''John Constantine, Hellblazer'' is an American contemporary Horror fiction, horror comic-book series published by DC Comics since January 1988, and subsequently by its Vertigo Comics, Vertigo imprint since March 1993, when the imprint was introduced. Its central character is the streetwise English sorcerer and con man John Constantine, who was created by Alan Moore and Stephen R. Bissette, and first appeared as a supporting character in ''Swamp Thing'' (vol. 2) #37 (June 1985), during that creative team's run on that title. ''Hellblazer'' had been published continuously since January 1988, and was Vertigo's longest-running title, the only remaining publication from the imprint's launch. In 2013, the series concluded with issue 300, and was replaced by ''Constantine (comics), Constantine'', which returned the character to the mainstream DC Universe. November 8, 2012 The original series was revived in November 2019 for twenty-four issues as part of ''The Sandman Universe'' line of c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fables (comics)
''Fables'' is an American comic book ongoing series, series created and written by Bill Willingham, published by DC Comics' Vertigo Comics, Vertigo imprint. Willingham served as sole writer for its entirety, with Mark Buckingham (comic book artist), Mark Buckingham penciling more than 110 issues. The series featured various other pencillers over the years, most notably Lan Medina and Steve Leialoha. ''Fables'' was launched in July 2002 and concluded in July 2015. It was revived in 2022 with a 12-issue continuation to the main series, as well as a 6-issue spin-off miniseries ''Batman vs. Bigby! A Wolf in Gotham'', both published under DC Black Label. The series features various characters from fairy tales and folklore – referring to themselves as "Fables" – who formed a clandestine community centuries ago within New York City known as Fabletown, after their Homelands (Fables), Homelands were conquered by a mysterious and deadly enemy known as "The Adversary". It is set in the mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
