An Introduction to Berger Books

02/28/2019 12:18pm
Karen Berger, the legendary, award-winning comic book editor and founder of DC Comics’ influential imprint Vertigo, is overseeing Berger Books, a new line of creator-owned comic books and graphic novels being published by Dark Horse Comics.

Find more information on Karen Berger and the Berger Books imprint here »

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Kill Time, Till Time Kills You!

From Ann Nocenti (The Seeds, Daredevil) and rising talent Flavia Biondi (Italian artist of La Generazione making her American comics debut) comes Ruby Falls: a neo-noir tale of love, memory, and murder mysteriously woven through three generations of women, and hinging on their individual, intertwined fights for freedom.

CREATORS
Writer: Ann Nocenti
Artist: Flavia Biondi
Colorist: Lee Loughridge
Cover Artist: Flavia Biondi












Everything

From Christopher Cantwell, acclaimed writer of She Could Fly and co-creator of AMC's Halt and Catch Fire, and celebrated artist I.N.J. Culbard (The New Deadwardians, Brink) comes a new monthly ongoing series. Everything: a truly bizarre story about the most horrifying pursuit of happiness youve ever read. What twisted power has taken hold of Holland, Michigan and its town-folk? Who—or what—exactly is in charge here… and what insidious plans are in store? 

CREATORS

Writer: Christopher Cantwell
Artist: I.N.J. Culbard
Cover Artist: I.N.J. Culbard














She Could Fly: The Lost Pilot

The acclaimed miniseries continues!

Luna has crash-landed back into her life after spending a year in a mental institution . . . but that might just mean she's closer to the edge than she's ever been before. After discovering clues about the Flying Woman's missing family, Luna's obsession reignites, threatening to again unravel her fragile mind. Meanwhile, a mysterious guru appears in the sewers of Chicago and a Russian mercenary seeks old secret technology, and the specter of violence begins to loom over everyone once more.

CREATORS

Writer: Christopher Cantwell
Artist: Martin Morazzo
Colorist: Miroslav Mrva
Cover Artist: Martin Morazzo













By Hugo Award-winning writer G. Willow Wilson (Wonder Woman, Ms. Marvel) and Eisner Award-winning artist Christian Ward (Black Bolt, ODY-C). 

Set in a far-flung star system, this new epic sci-fi monthly saga tells the tale of two women--a young religious acolyte and a hard-bitten freighter pilot--who separately uncover a vast conspiracy between the leader of the system's dominant religion and the mega-corporation that controls society. On the run from reprisals on both sides, this unlikely pair of rebels risk plunging the world into anarchy if they reveal the truth. But when your beliefs betray you, what choice is there left? 

CREATORS

Writer: G.Willow Wilson
Artist: Christian Ward
Colorist: Christian Ward
Cover Artist: Christian Ward













A haunting coming-of-age tale about misbegotten youth, “what could have been,” and the ultimate sacrifice.

From Eisner Award-winning writer J.M. DeMatteis (Brooklyn Dreams, Seekers into the Mystery, Impossible, Incorporated) and acclaimed artist Corin Howell (Transformers Windblade, The Mighty Zodiac, Ghostbusters: Answer the Call).

In 1969, seventeen-year-old Kathy Sartori was brutally attacked, her body hurled into Brooklyn's Sheepshead Bay. Miraculously, she survives, fights her way back to the surface, only to discover that 50 years have passed, and an eerie doppelganger has lived out an entire life in her place.

CREATORS

Writer: J.M. DeMatteis
Artist: Corin Howell
Cover Artist: Corin Howell











Laguardia

Written by Nnedi Okorafor, Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award winner (Who Fears Death, Binti, Akata series) and illustrated by Tana Ford (Silk, Duck!), the team behind Black Panther: Long Live the King #6.

Set in an alternative world where aliens have come to Earth and integrated with society, LaGuardia revolves around a pregnant Nigerian-American doctor, Future Nwafor Chukwuebuka who has just returned to NYC under mysterious conditions. After smuggling an illegal alien plant named ''Letme Live'' through LaGuardia International and Interstellar Airport's customs and security, she arrives at her grandmothers tenement, the New Hope Apartments in the South Bronx.

CREATORS

Writer: Nnedi Okorafor
Artist: Tana Ford
Cover Artist: Tana Ford













A girl power epic!

To save a boy she barely knows, teenage orphan Olivia Twist joins the Esthers, a rag-tag girl gang of thieves running free in a dangerous future. Olivia's life in this London of internment camps and dark technology gets even more complicated when she discovers that she has more power and wealth than she's ever dreamed of. But it comes at a great cost.

* Debut comic by internationally best-selling author Darin Strauss.

* Art by Vampire Academy and The Adventures of Supergirl artist Emma Vieceli.

* The Dickens classic reimagined!

* The latest from the Berger Books imprint!
CREATORS

Writer: Darin Strauss, Adam Dalva
Artist: Emma Vieceli
Cover Artist: Emma Vieceli









She Could Fly #1She Could Fly

Written by Christopher Cantwell, co-creator/showrunner of AMC's Halt and Catch Fire.
 
In Chicago, an unknown woman appears flying at speeds of 120 miles per hour and at heights reaching 2,000 feet. Then she suddenly dies in a fiery explosion mid-air. No one knows who she was, how she flew, or why. Luna, a disturbed 15-year-old girl becomes obsessed with learning everything about her while rumors and conspiracy theories roil. Will cracking the secrets of the Flying Woman's inner life lead to the liberation from her own troubled mind?

* Martin Morazzo has worked on Nighthawk, Elektra, and the recently released creator-owned Ice Cream Man.

* The latest from Karen Bergers Berger Books imprint!

CREATORS

Writer: Christopher Cantwell
Artist: Martin Morazzo
Cover Artist: Martin Morazzo






The Alcoholic Tenth Anniversary Expanded Edition TPBThe Alcoholic Tenth Anniversary Expanded Edition TPB

Featuring gritty, yet poignant artwork by Emmy Award-winning artist Dean Haspiel (The Quitter, The Red Hook).
 
This awkward and agonizing tale of a boozed-up, coked-out, sexually confused, and hopelessly romantic author explores the life of a failing writer who's coming off a doomed romance and searching for hope. Unfortunately, the first place his search takes him is the bottom of a bottle as he careens from one off-kilter encounter to another in search of himself in this hilarious yet heartbreaking graphic novel debut by Jonathan Ames. Ames is the creator of HBO's Bored to Death, Starz's Blunt Talk and the critically acclaimed writer of Wake Up, Sir!, The Extra Man, What's Not to Love?, and You Were Never Really Here, now a film starring Joaquin Phoenix.

* Features a new prose piece by Jonathan Ames expanding on the story material, as well as a special behind-the-scenes artist section!

* For mature readers.

CREATORS

Writer: Jonathan Ames
Artist: Dean Haspiel
Cover Artist: Dean Haspiel





Author, chef and Emmy award-winning television star Anthony Bourdain (Parts Unknown, Kitchen Confidential) and acclaimed writer Joel Rose (Get Jiro!; Kill, Kill, Faster, Faster) tell haunting tales of terror, irritable spirits, and horribly strange beings in Anthony Bourdain's Hungry Ghosts. 

This four-issue anthology series includes art by Vanesa Del Rey, Leo Manco, Alberto Ponticelli, Paul Pope, and Mateus Santolouco.

Inspired by the Japanese Edo Period game Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai or 100 Candles, played by samurai warriors to test their courage, Hungry Ghosts reimagines this classic game of dread and terror as a circle of international chefs invoke modern tales of horror, all with the common thread of food. 

CREATORS

Writer: Anthony Bourdain, Joel Rose
Artist: Sebastian Cabrol, Vanesa Del Rey, Francesco Francavilla, Irene Koh, Leo Manco, Alberto Ponticelli, Paul Pope, Mateus Santolouco 
Colorist: Jose Villarrubia
Cover Artist: Paul Pope

Read a free preview of issue #1 here.






Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery

From acclaimed novelist Mat Johnson (Loving Day, Pym) and veteran artist Warren Pleece (The Invisibles, Life Sucks), the 2008 Vertigo graphic novel, Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery returns in a tenth-anniversary edition featuring enhanced toned art, an afterword by Mat Johnson, character sketches, and other additional material. 

Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery finds Zane Pinchback, a reporter for the New York-based New Holland Herald, sent to investigate the arrest of his own brother, charged with the brutal murder of a white woman in Mississippi. With a lynch mob already swarming, Zane must stay "incognegro" long enough to uncover the truth behind the murder in order to save his brother—and himself. 

CREATORS

Writer: Mat Johnson
Artist: Warren Pleece
Editor: Karen Berger
Cover Artist: Warren Pleece



Incognegro: RenaissanceIncognegro: Renaissance  
After a black writer is found dead at a scandalous interracial party in 1920s New York, Harlem's cub reporter Zane Pinchback is the only one determined to solve the murder. Zane must go ''incognegro'' for the first time--using his light appearance to pass as a white man--to find the true killer, in this prequel miniseries to the critically acclaimed Vertigo graphic novel, now available in a special new 10th Anniversary Edition.
With a cryptic manuscript as his only clue, and a mysterious and beautiful woman as the murder's only witness, Zane finds himself on the hunt through the dark and dangerous streets of ''roaring twenties'' Harlem in search for justice.
A page-turning thriller of racial divide, Incognegro: Renaissance explores segregation, secrets, and self-image as our race-bending protagonist penetrates a world where he feels stranger than ever before.
* Mature readers.    
''A talented writer of both fiction and creative non-fiction, Johnson's publications have established himself as an important new voice in the African-American tradition.''-- Walter Mosle
After a black writer is found dead at a scandalous interracial party in 1920s New York, Harlem's cub reporter Zane Pinchback is the only one determined to solve the murder. Zane must go ''incognegro'' for the first time--using his light appearance to pass as a white man--to find the true killer, in this prequel miniseries to the critically acclaimed Vertigo graphic novel, now available in a special new 10th Anniversary Edition.

With a cryptic manuscript as his only clue, and a mysterious and beautiful woman as the murder's only witness, Zane finds himself on the hunt through the dark and dangerous streets of ''roaring twenties'' Harlem in search for justice.

A page-turning thriller of racial divide, Incognegro: Renaissance explores segregation, secrets, and self-image as our race-bending protagonist penetrates a world where he feels stranger than ever before.  

CREATORS 

Writer: Mat Johnson 
Artist: Warren Pleece 
Editor: Karen Berger 
Cover Artist: Warren Pleece
 
Read a free preview of issue #1 here.














Breakout talent, writer Emma Beeby (Judge Dredd) and artist Ariela Kristantina (InSEXts) join together for a new five-issue series based on the controversial and historical figure, Mata Hari.

Mata Hari is notorious as the original "stripper-spy:" exotic dancer, convicted double agent, and femme fatale.

Executed by a French firing squad in 1917, many have since questioned the conviction. A century after her death, Mata Hari tells her story through fictional diary excerpts, drawn from biographies of the real woman whose past has been shrouded in mystery by both the lies of her accusers and the outlandish stories she told about herself.

CREATORS

Writer: Emma Beeby
Artist: Ariela Kristantina
Colorist: Pat Masioni
Cover Artists: Ariela Kristantina, Pat Masioni











The SeedsThe Seeds 

Award-winning artist David Aja (Hawkeye, Immortal Iron Fist) and filmmaker, journalist and writer Ann Nocenti (Daredevil, Catwoman) team up for The Seeds, a new four-issue series.

In an imminent America where fact-based reporting is gasping its last breath, an idealistic journalist stumbles into the story of a lifetime, only to realize that she can’t report it. Instead, she has to pitch the biggest myth of her career.

An eco-fiction tech-thriller where flora and fauna have begun to mutate, The Seeds is also a story of love beyond race and gender, and of the resilience of both human and animal kind.

CREATORS

Writer: Ann Nocenti
Artist: David Aja










The Originals

Deluxe oversized edition of the Eisner Award-winning mod sci-fi coming-of-age graphic novel from Dave Gibbons, co-creator of Watchmen. Includes 32 pages of never-before-seen development art, process pieces, and behind the scenes extras--all annotated by Gibbons.
 
In a retro-futuristic city of industrial gray where hover scooters, music, and drugs rule the street, the Originals are the toughest, most stylish gang around. For two childhood friends, nothing is more important than being one of them. But being part of the crowd will bring its own deadly consequences.

* The only graphic novel that Dave Gibbons has written and drawn. An Eisner Award winner!

* Extra material included in this oversized edition highlighting artwork, with annotations by Gibbons.

CREATORS

Writer: Dave Gibbons
Artist: Dave Gibbons
Cover Artist: Dave Gibbons

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