Preacher

Simon wanted to do "Preacher" today.
I know nothing about Preacher, but it was a Vertigo book
so I know Death and skulls must have been involved!

Vertigo: Red Rose

This summer I was in Scotland and dropped into a used bookstore. I bought FABLES: Storybook Love. I sat on the damp grass in some park and read the whole thing in one sitting. Red Rose barely makes an appearance but I liked her character.

Dean Haspiel's Vertigo contribution

Deep 6 Member Dean Haspiel contributed this self-rejected cover for his current Vertigo offering, "Cuba: My Revolution". Here's what he had to say, after numerous corrections to his spelling and grammar *, about his piece.

"Here is an abandoned sketch I did for the cover to Vertigo's CUBA: MY REVOLUTION, an original graphic novel I drew; written by Inverna Lockpez, colored by Jose Villarrubia, and edited by Joan Hilty."

* not true. I made that up.

Vertigo: Abel from House of Secrets

What can I say, I've always been a sucker for old horror comics. Here's my Abel. Cain anyone?

John Constantine by Nathan Schreiber

Nathan does another one on the move. Ain't technology wonderful!

Damn it feels good to be a Sandman.

George picked today's theme, Vertigo! There are so many characters to pick from, and so many amazing original titles they've published over the years, I went back and forth on who to draw, since George drew Death I went with her brother Sandman.

Vertigo: Death

Well, you know someone was going to pick this one.

Neil Gaiman's Sandman was (and is) an incredible important comic to me. It was one of a handful of comics that I read in the 90's, a time when I felt that a lot of what was being published left me cold. That being said, even the first few issues of Sandman didn't really grab me. It wasn't until issue #7, "The Sound of Her Wings", which was the first appearance of Dream's older sister Death, that I was really hooked. My little drawing pays tribute to that story's pigeon-feeding centerpiece, with Death contemplating one of her flying friends. Hope you enjoy!

Tribute to Vertigo

Now I am very well aware that Swamp Thing was not a Vertigo title, however while Vertigo is very much the house that Sandman & Preacher built, it's soul and inspiration is much more verdant and elemental.

I read Swamp Thing at an impressionable age, it blew my mind in a way that drugs couldn't and didn't. See you in the Green.

Vertigo

Today the theme at Drawbridge is, unfortunately, again a sad one similar to
last weeks. Vertigo, an imprint of DC Comics, let go of three of their long
time editors this week and it appears (I don’t know all the details) that Vertigo
will reduce it’s out put in general.

Good luck to Pornsak Pichetshote, Jonathan Vankin, and Joan Hilty!

As for today’s theme, I first thought I should pay homage to all the above
editors somehow. Then I realized that would not be a sketch, that would be
a poster that would take all day. And I can’t pick one and dis the other two!

So I’ll just point out some of the great books they've put out:
THE UNWRITTEN, CUBA ,HOW TO UNDERSTAND ISRAEL IN 60
DAYS OR LESS,THE QUITTER, INCOGNEGRO,
and REVOLVER

Rather, moving forward, I draw your attention to a book that I hope
survives anymore belt tightening. “Scalped” by Jason Aaron,
and R. M. Guéra is book I quite enjoy. Enough said.

Geronimo is NOT in scalped by the way. I… just like Geronimo and
Scalped is set on the Prairie Rose Indian Reservation. It was
that or a hot babe next to a casino sign and who
wants to see that?