A lot of folks, including ourselves, have been worried about the future state of Vertigo lately. With the stepping down of Karen Berger as executive editor and the switch from the long-running “Hellblazer” to the New 52 “Constantine”, a lot of us were worried that DC might be looking to wrap up the imprint.
Well, those worries have been addressed as ICv2 has an interview with DC senior VP of Sales Bob Wayne and VP of Marketing John Cunningham who said:
When we look at Vertigo as part of DC, the buzzword would be that it’s one of our cornerstones. I think everyone knows that Vertigo has been DC’s home for cutting edge and critically acclaimed stories and I don’t see that changing at any time in 2013 or beyond. If fact, if you go back to San Diego and New York and look at announcements for projects that are coming out for 2013 we announced things as wide across the spectrum as the new Scott Snyder and Sean Murphy’s The Wake, a new Jeff Lamire series, Trillium, of course Neil Gaiman returning to Sandman, aside from the continuing volumes of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and the multitude of Fables products. We’ve also seen in the past couple of weeks, as we’ve done slate planning for 2013, a lot of other new series coming from Vertigo that we’ll be announcing shortly.
The industry as a whole and DC as a whole will miss Karen [Berger]. She’s been a tremendous and almost unprecedented contributor over the years, but I think we have enough good, high-quality Vertigo product in the pipeline to keep Vertigo readers happy for the near-term future.
And that’s not the only Vertigo news for today as ComicsBeat has Vertigo’s book schedule for May-August and it reveals some very interesting books on the horizon; most notably an omnibus of Grant Morrison’s “Animal Man”, the first volume of an series of omnibus of Neil Gaiman’s “Sandman”.
Check out the full schedule below:
Vertigo titles for May 2013:
GET JIRO! TP
Writers: Anthony Bourdain and Joel Rose
Artist: Langdon Foss
Original graphic novel
$14.99 US, 160 pgTHE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO BOOK 2 HC
Writer: Denise Mina
Artists: Leonardo Manco and Andrea Mutti
Original graphic novel
$19.99 US, 144 pgSHOOTERS TP
Writers: Eric Trautmann and Brandon Jerwa
Artists: Steve Lieber
Original graphic novel
$16.99 US, 144 pgVertigo titles for June 2013:
THE ANNOTATED SANDMAN VOL. 3 HC
Writer: Neil Gaiman
Commentary: Leslie Klinger
Artists: Jill Thompson, Vince Locke, P. Craig Russell, Bryan Talbot, Mark Buckingham, Alec Stevens, John Watkiss, Michael Zulli, Dick Giordano, Michael Allred, Shea Anton Pensa, Gary Amaro, Steve Leialoha, Tony Harris and Kent Williams
Collects: THE SANDMAN #40-56, THE SANDMAN SPECIAL #1 and stories from VERTIGO PREVIEW #1 and VERTIGO: WINTER’S EDGE #3
$49.99 US, 520 pgDJANGO UNCHAINED HC
Writer: Django Tarantino
Artists: R.M. Guera and Jason Latour
Collects: DJANGO UNCHAINED #1-6
$24.99 US, 244 pgGONE TO AMERIKAY TP
Writer: Derek McCullough
Artist: Colleen Doran
Original graphic novel
$16.99 US, 144 pgLUCIFER BOOK 1 TP
Writer: Mike Carey
Artists: Scott Hampton, Chris Weston, James Hodgkins, Warren Pleece, Dean Ormston, Peter Gross and Ryan Kelly
Collects: THE SANDMAN PRESENTS: LUCIFER #1-3 and LUCIFER #1-13
$29.99 US, 392 pgPREACHER BOOK ONE TP
Writer: Garth Ennis
Artist: Steve Dillon
Collects: PREACHER #1-12
$19.99 US, 352 pgSWEET TOOTH VOL. 6: WILD GAME TP
Writer/artist: Jeff Lemire
Collects: SWEET TOOTH #33-40
$16.99 US, 200 pgVertigo titles for July 2013:
HELLBLAZER: DEATH AND CIGARETTES TP
Writer: Peter Milligan
Artists: Giuseppe Camuncoli, Stefano Landini and Simon Bisley
Collects: HELLBLAZER #292-300 and HELLBLAZER ANNUAL #1
$16.99 US, 176 pgBLACK ORCHID TP NEW EDITION
Writer: Neil Gaiman
Artist: Dave McKean
Collects: BLACK ORCHID #1-3
$16.99 US, 176 pgFAIREST VOL. 2: HIDDEN KINGDOM TP
Writer: Lauren Beukes
Artist: Inaki Miranda
Collects: FAIREST #8-14
$14.99 US, 128 pgSAGA OF THE SWAMP THING BOOK FOUR TP
Writer: Alan Moore
Artists: Stephen Bissette, John Totleben, Rick Veitch, Ron Randall, Alfredo Alcala and others
Collects: SWAMP THING #43-50
$19.99 US, 224 pgSAUCER COUNTRY VOL. 2: THE RETICULAN CANDIDATE TP
Writer: Paul Cornell
Artists: Ryan Kelly and Mirko Colak
Collects: SAUCER COUNTRY #7-12
$14.99 US, 176 pgVertigo titles for August 2013:
THE ANIMAL MAN OMNIBUS
Writer: Grant Morrison
Artists: Chaz Truog, Doug Hazlewood, Tom Grummett, Mark McKenna, Steve Montano, Paris Cullins, Mark Farmer,
Collects: ANIMAL MAN #1-26 and SECRET ORIGINS #39
$75.00 US, 704 pgBEWARE THE CREEPER TP
Writer: Jason Hall
Artist: Cliff Chiang
Collects: BEWARE THE CREEPER #1-5
$14.99 US, 128 pgRIGHT STATE TP
Writer: Mat Johnson
Artist: Andrea Mutti
Original graphic novel
$16.99 US, 144 pgTHE SANDMAN OMNIBUS VOL. 1
Writer: Neil Gaiman
Artist: Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III, Chris Bachalo, Michael Zulli, Steve Parkhouse, Kelley Jones, Charles Vess, Colleen Doran, Matt Wagner, Hugo Pratt, Dick Giordano, Stan Woch, Bryan Talbot, Shawn McManus and Mark Buckingham
Collects: THE SANDMAN #1-37 and THE SANDMAN SPECIAL #1
$125.00 US, 1,040 pg
