Vertigo Visions: Artwork from the Cutting Edge of Comics by Alisa Kwitney

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Vertigo Visions: Artwork from the Cutting Edge of Comics

by Alisa Kwitney

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Info:	Watson-Guptill Publications (2000), Edition: 0, Hardcover, 208 pages
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A Good Collection of Cover Art

I had forgotten just how many of my top faves are specifically Vertigo titles e.g. Sandman, Hellblazer, The Invisibles, Transmetropolitan, Preacher, Fables, Y - The Last Man, among others. And now having leafed through this time and time again I find that I am going to have to search out a whole list of new titles and, I hope, gain a few new favourites. I could see this book appealing to comic fans, graphic novel readers, artists and their appreciators, and even to those that have perhaps never been into this medium. The art stands alone, though it is of course directly related to their titles, it can be appreciated without the text within. A good starter or simply a good collectors item. (

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Well-known and much-beloved for giving intelligent grownups comics they can read in public, DC's Vertigo line has devoted as much energy to its art as to its stories. This attention underlies every page of Vertigo Visions, a collection of 185 images from covers, trading cards, and gallery work by 75 artists. Dave McKean's dreamy collages from the Sandman series and Brian Bolland's precise caricatures of the Invisibles highlight a collection of consistently startling work. Tremendous care and feeling suffuse the art--in oil, watercolor, digitally enhanced photography, and ink, and a range of styles spanning the centuries. Editor Alisa Kwitney's text gently persuades inveterate readers to let our eyes linger over each image as though we were actually reading a thousand words, reminding us that paying attention delivers substantial rewards. --Rob Lightner

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