#KAREN BERGER

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Happy International Women’s Day

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2000's Vertigo Secret Files: Hellblazer #1 cover by artist Phil Hale.

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George Pérez & Ernie Colón

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Sam Kieth: Sandman character design

Sandman concept art by Sam Kieth

Source Dimesh Shamdasani (comicartfans)

Sandman 'helmet' designs, in Dinesh Shamdasani's DC (interiors) Comic Art Gallery Room (comicartfans.com)

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Publishorial by Jenette Kahn (circa March 1989)

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Mat Johnson + Steve Lieber explore family secrets + time travel in ‘Backflash’

The new graphic novel will debut from Dark Horse’s Berger Books imprint this fall.

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Tom King si è preso la DC: i suoi lavori recenti da recuperare

L’autore americano è tra i più prolifici in assoluto nel mondo del fumetto supereroistico. Da Batman a Supergirl, ecco i suoi fumetti usciti negli ultimi mesi in Italia. Se c’è un autore che nell’ultimo periodo ha segnato la produzione di fumetti supereroistici in America lato DC Comics, questo è senza dubbio Tom King. Nato nel 1978 a Washington, King è un uomo che ha vissuto almeno tre vite: la…

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K by Karen Berger

K by Karen Berger es una marca que originalmente se llamaba Don Kiki Cigars, cuyo dueño era Kiki Berger. Luego de su muerte en 2014, Karen tomó las riendas de la empresa y en 2016 decidió lanzar una línea con su nombre. Eventualmente la marca pasaría a tener el nombre actual, ya liderada y manejada por Karen Berger. Aunque todavía bajo el nombre original, he probado dos productos de la…

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How GEORGE PEREZ Saved WONDER WOMAN From Becoming a ‘Raunchy Sex Object’

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George Perez: I didn’t realize until I came into the office of the then-editor Janice Race, and they were putting together a new Wonder Woman book, that there wasn’t a single woman working in that company — and you’re talking about a company whose publisher was a woman! — who was happy with the direction they were going to go in.there was just part of me — the inner feminist in me — who was really bothered that she was just kind of being thrown out.I mean without naming names, when I saw the artist who was going to be on that, I said, “The man is more used to drawing stuff like a Penthouse magazine.” Every woman will vilify this — the premier female character, and we’re going to make her into a raunchy sex object? Oh God, that is the worst direction you could ever take for this character!So, I had ideas for her. I was inspired by Walt Simonson and his take on Thor and by Ray Harryhausen. If you’re looking to challenge the gods, fighting skeletons, hydras, I figured what if Wonder Woman were done, before CGI, by Ray Harryhausen? That became a focus for me.Also, one thing that she is not supposed to be — she is not a female version of Superman, she is a character of mythology. Karen Berger agreed and said, “She’s a fantasy character; she’s not a superhero in the strict sense of the word. She’s a fantasy like Sinbad, all the great stories and myths, she’s a mythological character. Let’s play with that.”I said I also needed to clean up her mythology because she was a mixture of so many Greco-Roman plus modern (influences). I said, “Let’s go back to classic Greek and let me do what I can with that.” And I didn’t realize at the time that ever since the death of (creator) William Marston and H.G. Peter, the original artist on Wonder Woman, there hadn’t been a single writer or artist who ever volunteered to do that book. It was an assigned book. No one wanted to do Wonder Woman. I was the first person — particularly at a time when I could have asked for any possible project and they would have said yes to it.

Title should be "How Perez Ruined Wonder Woman for good."

Finding this old article from 2019 before Perez passed away is him simply recalling everything that I have spoken about with his work on Wonder Woman.

He was more concerned with the women in the office and the supposed negative fallout among women in the audience with the character than he was with the actual character herself.

The editor that he worked for only reaffirms his bad decision to take the most iconic and quintessential female super hero in the genre and relegate her to that of a fantasy hero, totally misconstruing her character, and destroying the few good changes that had happened prior to the Crisis on Infinite Earth event that lead to this new reboot.

It was always obvious from the comic itself that Perez was more interested in his political leanings and own ideas for an 80s fantasy themed story feature Ancient Greek aesthetics and Greek mythology than he was in modernizing a faithful and earnest version of the classic character, but hearing him affirm the obvious is good.

He even turned down an artist that apparently drew the character like a "sexual magazine" as if that wouldn't align perfectly with the original career and art of her Golden Age artist H.G. Peter.

He clearly did not have the character's best interest at mind and was more concern with including the sensibilities of people that the character was not mean to appeal to.

While she certainly supported women and spoke of women empowerment and had many important explorations of gender and women in modern day. She was never a feminist, not meant to appeal to people who had issue with sexual art.

It was clear from their own misrepresentation of the character that those in charge did not have Wonder Woman's best interest in mind and it shows. Even the mythology he wrote was horrible and clearly just scrapped together for his ideal fantasy background.

This explains why the fandom is more interested in bad Greek Mythology and feminism than anything that is actually related to the character.

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Exclusive: Berger Books and Dark Horse announce The Sunny-Luna Traveling Oracle from Warren Pleece

Exclusive: Berger Books and Dark Horse announce The Sunny-Luna Traveling Oracle from Warren Pleece #comics #comicbooks #graphicnovel

The newest offering from legendary editor Karen Berger’s Berger Books at Dark Horse Comics comes from acclaimed illustrator and storyteller Warren Pleece, presenting readers a dystopian eco-noir thriller about power, escape, creation, and the mark we leave on the world. The 128-page (6.625” x 9”) science fiction mystery graphic novel The Sunny-Luna Travelling Oracle arrives in April of 2024. In…

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1990's Hellblazer Vol.1 #27 cover by cover artist Dave McKean.

One of the best stand alone issues of the entire series.

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Amethyst by Ernie Colón and various, a Karen Berger joint

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War of the Gods #1 ‘Hellfire's Web’ (1991) by George Pérez, Cynthia Martin and Gene D'Angelo. Edited by Karen Berger. Cover by Pérez.

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Fratello Announces Camo Nicaragua - Cigar News

Fratello Announces Camo Nicaragua - #Cigar News @Fratellocigars #cigars

Fratello Cigars has announced a brand new offshoot of their Fratello Camo line, Fratello Camo Nicaragua. The Camo Nicaragua will be released in a Habano, Maduro, Connecticut, and a Connecticut Sweet tip. The Camo Nicaragua was shown off at Tobacco Plus Expo 2023. Fratello Camo Nicaragua cigars is rolled at Karen Berger’s Esteli Cigars and comes in two sizes, a churchill 7 x 52 format and a gordo…

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Fasthand is Still My Name (1973)

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Wonder Woman #14 ‘For The Glory Of Gaea’ (1988) by George Pérez, Len Wein, Bruce D. Patterson and Carl Gafford. Edited by Karen Berger. Cover by Pérez.

Wonder Woman #14 (1987) by Len Wein & George Pérez