Comments on: Vertigo Crime line announced

by: Sarah

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:48:23 +0000

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by: Herr Mike

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:49:27 +0000

Hmm. Why not just release them as Vertigo comics? It’s not like the line couldn’t use some help.

by: jacob lyon goddard

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:21:24 +0000

this is a joke
this isn’t about advancing the medium of comics or providing a wider creative outlet for cartoonists

this is just another leg of the AOL-Time/Warner R&D branch

if there’s a list of questions the submitions editor needs to ask themselves before green-lighting a new project, you can make damn well sure “can we turn this into a profitable movie” is on the top of that list.

by: Bookspot-Roundup 7/24/08

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:33:30 +0000

[…] It is also my understanding that Damon and special agent Mark will be redesigning Heliotrope to get ready for our next issue which we expect will be a major step for us and just a cool project as a whole. At this point we feel like we have been inviting the hot girl to the trailer (not even a double-wide) and we are taking steps to change that. I mean we are talking Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, Jeff VanderMeer, Paul S. Kemp, Hal Duncan, K.J. Bishop, Bryan Talbot, Rhys Hughes, Catherynne M. Valente and Chris Roberson - so we need to step up! Also the idea for the issue after the next came to me with this report by Heidi MacDonald. Basically, continued dopeness. […]

by: dan z

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:38:36 +0000

Are they looking for submissions?

by: cbrown

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:35:19 +0000

I hear you, Mark K., but on the other hand, my local libraries carry a lot of graphic novels. Some shelve them all together, and I like being able to go to the one section and see their whole selection. Others do shelve them by author in their respective genres, and it makes it a pain to browse.

by: Mark Coale

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:24:52 +0000

I wonder if it will have a catchy name, like HELIX.

by: Cary Coatney

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:44:08 +0000

I’m game for more Sandman Mystery Theatre.

That is, if they revive the title for this sub- category.

Coat

by: Mark Kardwell

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:07:26 +0000

Here’s to the day when comics are shelved in bookshops and libraries by genre, rather than lumping them all together, as if “graphic novels” were a genre itself. It’ll be another day closer to comics growing up and joining the book trade, rather than the forced arrested development “the biz” clings to.

by: Torsten Adair

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:53:57 +0000

Sorry to jump the gun, but…

Will the trade dress and design reflect the graphic novel aspect, or the crime fiction aspect? Will it be shelved with the graphic novels, or in the Mystery section. (And if they are with the mysteries, how will DC counteract the effect Minx suffered when those titles were shelved as young adult fiction, and not YA GN or Adult GN/manga?)

If this line is successful, will crime titles migrate from Vertigo (and Paradox and Piranha)? How will DC compete once the mystery publishers begin producing/importing graphic novel titles? (Such as HarperCollins’ Agatha Christie adaptations?)

Might this be the beginning of graphic novels moving from a media categorization to a genre categorization? Just as there are “series” and “anthologies” subcategories in the various fiction categories, might there soon be a “graphic novel” or “illustrated” subcategory?

Is David Hahn’s “All Nighter” one of the titles? (And I’ve handsold Watchmen to mystery buffs by describing it as a murder mystery…)