41 Facts About Vertigo Comics

Vertigo Comics, known as DC Vertigo or simply Vertigo, was an imprint of American comic book publisher DC Comics started by editor Karen Berger in 1993.

The Vertigo Comics branding was retired in 2020, and most of its library transitioned to DC Black Label.

Vertigo Comics was launched in January 1993, with a mix of existing DC ongoing series and new series.

The first original Vertigo Comics series was Death: The High Cost of Living, a Sandman spin-off featuring the character Death.

Vertigo Comics adopted works previously published by DC under other imprints, such as V for Vendetta and Transmetropolitan.

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Vertigo Comics's "found their sensibility and point of view to be refreshingly different, edgier and smarter" than those of most American comics writers.

Vertigo Comics's edited limited series such as Kid Eternity, Black Orchid and The Books of Magic limited series.

Young and those works were brought into the Vertigo Comics fold, allowing Berger to expand the imprint's publishing plans with the limited series Enigma, Sebastian O, Mercy, and Shadows Fall.

Vertigo Comics was launched in January 1993 with a mixture of existing ongoing series continued under the new imprint, new ongoing series, new limited series, and single-volume collections or graphic novels.

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 sold in general-interest bookshops.

Also previewed as a 2003 release from Vertigo Comics was Brett Lewis and John Paul Leon's The Winter Men, which ultimately saw its first issue released in September 2005 through WildStorm's "Signature Series" imprint.

Berger's position at the head of Vertigo Comics was filled by Shelly Bond, who had begun editing for the imprint in 1993.

However, in 2016, DC "restructured" Vertigo, eliminating Bond's position, and oversight of Vertigo was placed under Jamie S Rich, until May 2017 when Mark Doyle became the new editor.

In 2018, DC Comics announced a "line-wide relaunch and rebranding" as "DC Vertigo", including 11 new ongoing titles planned for the coming year, under Doyle's editorship.

Vertigo Comics's took over editorship of Alan Moore's Swamp Thing run from Swamp Thing co-creator Len 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.

Vertigo Comics then left DC to work for Disney in setting up Touchmark, before returning with those projects to Vertigo in early 1993, when he edited debut title Enigma, and later miniseries and one-shots such as Sebastian O, The Extremist, Mercy, Rogan Gosh, The Mystery Play, and Tank Girl: The Moovy.

Vertigo Comics edited all four of the "Vertigo Voices" titles in 1995, as well as Shadows Fall, Ghostdancing, Egypt, Millennium Fever and both Tank Girl miniseries.

Between 1993 and 2000, she edited titles exclusively for Vertigo Comics, including relatively little known titles and one-shots such as Skin Graft, The Last One, The Heart of the Beast, Mobfire, Terminal City, Menz Insana, The Girl Who Would Be Death, Heavy Liquid, Pulp Fantastic and Accelerate.

Vertigo Comics's edited the first Vertigo works of Bill Willingham and Ed Brubaker in Proposition Player and Scene of the Crime, and the higher-profile series Moonshadow, Girl, Seekers into the Mystery, The Minx and all issues of House of Secrets .

Peyer moved to Doom Patrol and Animal Man, which he edited during the transition from DC to Vertigo Comics, before moving to edit the initial issues of Kid Eternity and Black Orchid as well as two "Vertigo Comics Visions" one-shots.

Vertigo Comics edited the first issues of Books of Magic, and both Books of Faerie miniseries, and returned to the main Books of Magic title for a further 20+ issues with Chiang in 1998.

Vertigo Comics took over the editing of 100 Bullets and later assumed the reins of Vertigo's biggest hit series since Preacher, Brian K Vaughan and Pia Guerra's Y: The Last Man.

Vertigo Comics teamed writer Andy Diggle and artist Jock on their breakout series The Losers.

Vertigo Comics was the editor who presided over the Vertigo Crime line of graphic novels.

Vertigo Comics brought Harvey Pekar to Vertigo, where Pekar published the graphic novel The Quitter as well as eight issues of Pekar's long-running American Splendor autobiographical series.

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Ennis' best-known Vertigo Comics work was his and artist Steve Dillon's creator-owned Preacher, which ran for 66 issues and six spin-off specials between 1995 and 2000, while Ennis' prolific work on Hellblazer rivals initial-series author Delano.

Vertigo Comics's penned two "Vertigo Visions" specials — 1993's The Geek and 1998's Tomahawk.

John Ney Reiber has produced most of his output for Vertigo Comics, working exclusively for the company between 1994 and 2000.

Vertigo Comics wrote a non-Sandman miniseries, My Faith in Frankie, the comicbook adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere and the OGN God Save the Queen .

Ed Brubaker's first Vertigo work was on the "Vertigo Visions" Prez one-shot, and intermittent contributions to a couple of anthology titles preceded his Scene of the Crime, effectively laying the groundwork for his later crime comics.

Dean Ormston has similarly produced a disproportionate amount of his artwork for Vertigo Comics titles, including the lion's share of the alternate reality Books of Magick: Life During Wartime series .

Vertigo Comics's artwork appears in most of the non-Peter Gross issues of Mike Carey's Lucifer, and he handled art duties for Caitlin R Kiernan's 4-issue The Girl who would be Death .

Vertigo Comics produced pencils and inks for the miniseries Millennium Fever and for Girl .

Jill Thompson, although primarily known as an artist, has produced scripts for Vertigo Comics, producing as writer-artist three Sandman tie-ins: The Little Endless Storybook and two manga retellings of storylines: Death: At Death's Door and The Dead Boy Detectives .

Vertigo Comics's has contributed ten issues each to the high-profile Vertigo series Sandman and The Invisibles, and penciled four of the last five issues of Seekers into the Mystery.

Jon J Muth, a painter, has produced several lavish volumes for Vertigo Comics, including writing, penciling, inking and coloring the 1998 one-shot Swamp Thing: Roots.

Primarily, his Vertigo Comics output has been in collaboration with JM DeMatteis, an issue of Blood: A Tale, the maxiseries Moonshadow and three issues of Seekers into the Mystery.

Artwork of Charles Vess has infrequently but notably accompanied the words of Neil Gaiman on Vertigo Comics projects, including the 4-issue Stardust miniseries, later reprinted as an illustrated hardcover book.

John Bolton, another frequent Gaiman collaborator has rarely worked with that author directly for Vertigo Comics, but has utilised his characters, including in the OGN Sandman Presents: The Furies and the Books of Magic lead-in Arcana Annual.

Vertigo Comics contributed to the Sandman Mystery Theatre annual, and the Fables OGN 1001 Nights of Snowfall.

Inarguably the name most associated with Vertigo Comics's cover output is the artist who provided all of the covers to the Vertigo Comics's highest profile series : Dave McKean.