The second is A SICKNESS IN THE FAMILY by award winning crime novelist Denise Mina in her first graphic novel and artist Antonio Fuso for Vertigo Crime.

Sometimes the greatest mysteries, and the most frightening horrors, occur right at home. I’m sure some of us can attest to that. Well, together, Mina and Fuso unravel a dark story of a family destroying itself from the inside out.

Check out the cover [Please note: The cover is not final]:

Can you say creepy?

Come back at 2pm for another reveal.

Blame The Killer Inside Me.

It’s spring of 1991 — well, really winter since I was living in Ithaca, NY where it’s warm likes two weeks out of the year — there was a big recession on, a war in Iraq, I was only working part-time (some things never change, right? jk) and I’m standing in an independent bookstore and this scary-ass face is staring back at me. It’s the cover to The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson. Never heard of him. But loved the jacket design (Day-Glo orange stripes with black type and a creepy black lizard on it) and so I picked it up.

Now, I’d read my share of Chandler, Hammett, Conan Doyle and even James M. Cain, and considered myself a mystery fan…but this book was CRIME. This was a twisted book about a deputy sheriff who had some serious problems. I read half the book standing in the store and the rest that afternoon. I read it again the next day and knew I needed more…

And holy hell, there was more…Willeford, Goodis, Williams, MacDonald, Himes and on and on. It was grimy, sexy, visceral, mind-blowing work and I felt like a poseur cuz I’d never heard of any of them. But I trusted whoever these Vintage Black Lizard geniuses were and I was never the same. The one time in my life when you really could judge a book by its cover.

Which brings us to VERTIGO CRIME…where we’re trying to capture that same flavor. A line of books by some of today’s best crime writers – IAN RANKIN, BRIAN AZZARELLO, JASON STARR, PETER MILLIGAN, CHRISTOS GAGE, DENISE MINA, MAX ALLAN COLLINS and many more – that we believe can proudly sit alongside the best “regular” crime fiction out there.

The first two – DARK ENTRIES by Rankin & Dell’Edera and FILTHY RICH by Azzarello & Santos – drop today in comic shops and next Tuesday in bookstores. They’ve got eye-popping covers (from Lee Bermejo of JOKER fame) and I really hope you’ll take a taste.

Cuz who knows…maybe in twenty years, you’ll be blogging about how VERTIGO CRIME changed your life forever.

God help you.

will dennis

LUNA PARK, written by novelist Kevin Baker, drawn by Danijel Zezelj, and colored by Dave Stewart, is an epic, sprawling historical crime thriller that spans a century and is reminiscent of Kevin Baker’s acclaimed novel DREAMLAND and David Cronenberg’s film Eastern Promises.

Check out the stunning cover, seen here for the first time:

With art this gorgeous who needs words? But when you’ve had the legendary Italian film director, and gifted caricaturist in his own right, sing your praises, people should listen.

Frederico Fellini, in reference to Danijel Zezelj’s work on The Rhythm of the Heart, once said “I am fascinated by Zezelj’s threatening and ghostly perspectives, the way he manages to use his stories and characters to express the sense of melancholy, of some impending doom. He depicts all this with great talent and a style.”

I mean how many artists can lay claim to that?

LUNA PARK already has people talking:

“Zigzagging between the dreamy patina of old New York to the recent Chechen nightmare, Luna Park is a harrowing, wistful and action-packed yarn.”
—Sarah Vowell, author of Assassination Vacation

“Kevin Baker’s Luna Park is the most satisfying story I’ve read — in any medium — in years. Thrilling, moving, beautiful: this is a work of supreme entertainment, of uncompromising art. Perhaps the greatest work of one of America’s greatest writers.” —Darin Strauss, author of Chang and Eng

“Luna Park is terrific, a mind-blowing fusion of what-could-have-been with the horror of what-actually-is. Kevin Baker jumps into the graphic form beautifully, armed with a fistful of twentieth century dystopic dreams, and the art by Danijel Zezelj is gorgeous and terrifying. It’s a page-turner.” —Glen David Gold, author of Carter Beats the Devil

“Kevin Baker cuts brilliantly to the heart of the emigre story, creating a tangible, gut-wrenching sense of displacement for any reader. Frightening, beautiful and compelling to the very last panel.” —Denise Mina, Slip of the Knife

See for yourself: