Preacher is a comic book series created by writer Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon, published by the American comic book label Vertigo ( an imprint of DC Comics ), with painted covers by Glenn Fabry.

Many of these have since moved on to work for American publishers such as DC Comics ( especially the Vertigo and Wildstorm imprints ) and Marvel Comics.

Vertigo is an imprint of the American comic-book publisher DC Comics.

The first ( four-issue ) miniseries, Vertigo Pop: Tokyo was in the words of one reviewer " a broad comedy about cosplay fans and the mafia ( yakuza )," revolving around an American who moves to Tokyo's famous Akihabara district and attempts to deal with the differences between the two cultures before getting caught up in a " wild adventure involving kidnapping, extortion, gangsters, and rock stars.

Berger's promotion came as Vertigo was said to be equivalent to " the fourth largest American comic book publisher " in 2005, with Paul Levitz praising her personally as having " built Vertigo into an imprint which is simultaneously one of comics ' leading creative and commercial successes.

From 2000, she has continued to edit most of the highest-profile Vertigo titles, including almost all of Mike Carey's Lucifer ( with Mariah Huehner ) and the entirety of Ed Brubaker's Deadenders, Howard Chaykin & David Tischman's American Century, Jonathan Vankin's The Witching, Si Spencer's Books of Magick: Life During Wartime, Steven T. Seagle and Kelley Jones ' The Crusades and Bill Willingham's Fables ( to date ).

She oversaw the first fourteen issues of American Virgin, the first eleven of Jack of Fables, the first two Vertigo Pop!

He brought Harvey Pekar to Vertigo, where Pekar published the graphic novel The Quitter as well as eight issues of Pekar's long-running American Splendor autobiographical series.

Sean Phillips earliest American comics work was in the pages of pre-Vertigo Hellblazer, and in May 1993 he became one of the early Vertigo artists by illustrating ( with assists from Paul Peart and Sean Harrison Scoffield ) the entire 16-issue run of Kid Eternity ( 1993-4 ).

* Vertigo Entertainment, an American film production company created by Roy Lee

* " Vertigo ", a song by American Hi-Fi from the American Pie 2 soundtrack

The opening theme from Vertigo was used in the prologue to Lady Gaga's " Born This Way " video, and during a flashback sequence in the pilot episode of FX's American Horror Story, which also featured " Georgie's Theme " in later episodes as a recurring musical motif for the character of Tate.

The American Film Institute respectively ranked Herrmann's scores for Psycho and Vertigo # 4 and # 12 on their list of the 25 greatest film scores.

In September 2006, a four-issue American Splendor mini-series was published by the DC Comics imprint Vertigo.

*" On the Road Avec M. Lévy " — A review of American Vertigo in the New York Times Book Review by Garrison Keillor.

*" Mediocracy in America " — A review of American Vertigo in the literary magazine, n + 1 by Sam Stark.

U2 filmed two concerts during the American leg of their Vertigo Tour for the concert film Vertigo 2005: Live from Chicago.

His big break into American comics was Flex Mentallo, a Doom Patrol spin-off written by fellow Glaswegian Grant Morrison for DC Comics ' Vertigo imprint, in 1996.

* American Virgin # 1-3 ( Vertigo, 2006 )

This was augmented by lucrative licencing deals with American and international labels including Sire, Vertigo and Island Records ( 1975 – 1982 ) that gave WBR the American distribution rights for leading British and European rock acts including Deep Purple, Jethro Tull, Black Sabbath, Roxy Music, King Crimson and Kraftwerk.

The Traveling Wilburys ( sometimes shortened to the Wilburys ) were an English – American supergroup consisting of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty, accompanied by drummer Jim Keltner.

In the summer of 1965, using a Traveling Fellowship award from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, McCarthy shipped out aboard the liner Sylvania, hoping to visit Ireland.

* 1965 Traveling Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters

Albert was awarded an American Traveling Scholarship from the Art Institute in 1903 and, having spent three years studying at Académie Julian in Paris and traveling and painting throughout Europe, had accepted a teaching position at the Institute upon his return in May 1906.

Traveling in the winter, look for Lesser Scaup, Blue-winged Teal, Mottled Ducks, Great Northern Divers, Laughing Gulls, American White Pelicans, and Red-breasted Mergansers.

ACM started working with the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service ( SITES ) to create traveling exhibitions, which were the first major African American themed exhibitions at the Smithsonian.

* American Journey: Traveling with Tocqueville in Search of Democracy in America, Simon & Schuster, 1982, ISBN 0-671-24746-8, ISBN 978-0-671-24746-1

Organized by fence John D. " Traveling Mike " Grady following the American Civil War, the Grady Gang operated in Broadway's " Thieves Exchange " where Grady would regularly purchase upto $ 10, 000 in stolen goods.

( October 22, 1912 – April 12, 1995 ) was an American cinematographer for such films as Lonely Are the Brave ( 1962 ), The Americanization of Emily ( 1964 ), The Cincinnati Kid ( 1965 ), Point Blank ( 1967 ), Finian's Rainbow ( 1968 ), The Traveling Executioner ( 1970 ), Portnoy's Complaint ( 1972 ), Earthquake ( 1974 ), Swashbuckler ( 1976 ), The Driver ( 1978 ), A Change of Seasons ( 1980 ), Foolin ' Around ( 1980 ), and Loving Couples ( 1980 ).

The First Traveling Saleslady was a 1956 American film, starring Ginger Rogers and Carol Channing.

The result was a collection of 280 songs, ballads, ditties, brought together from all regions of America, more than one hundred never before published: The American Songbag.

Such performance is a great tribute to American scientists and engineers, who in the past five years have had to telescope time and technology to develop these long-range ballistic missiles, where America had none before.

His metier was the American tropics, and he had lived all over Latin America and among the primitive tribes on the Amazon river.

many of us in public relations were flattered that Richard L. Tobin chose to devote his editorial in the March 11 Communications Supplement to the merger of the Public Relations Society of America and the American Public Relations Association.

Through trade and travel across the seas the American Merchant Marine is carrying out its historic mission of linking the United States of America with friendly nations across the seas ; ;

The Miss Rhode Island Pageant is sponsored by the Rhode Island Junior Chamber of Commerce as a part of the nation-wide search for the typical American girl -- a Miss America from Rhode Island.

The Symposium, which was jointly sponsored by the American Institute of Physics, the Instrument Society of America, and the National Bureau of Standards, attracted nearly one thousand registrants, including many from abroad.

It can also contribute to the education of America and to more intelligent American participation in the world.

Other memberships include the American Watercolor Society, Philadelphia Water Color Club, Allied Artists of America, Audubon Artists, Baltimore Watercolor Society.

And the emphasis on nationalism in America is in proportion to the growth of American influence across the world.

It is an understandable paradox that most American history and most American literature is today written from an essentially egocentric and isolationistic point of view at the very time America is spreading her dominion over palm and pine.

Then there was North America, where American was the native speech of all except the twenty descendants of French-Canadians living on the Hudson Bay Preserve.

Gershwin explained in Musical America, " My purpose here is to portray the impressions of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city, listens to the various street noises, and absorbs the French atmosphere.

The ASA became the United States of America Standards Institute or USASI and ultimately the American National Standards Institute.

" America the Beautiful " is an American patriotic song.

Symbolically, Marian Anderson ( a noted opera singer of her day ) sang a rendition of " America the Beautiful " on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 after being refused use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution because of her skin color.

Many songs have used this term, including the American patriotic songs " America, The Beautiful " and " God Bless the USA ".

The popular AFI 100 Years … series, which ran from 1998 to 2008, and created jury-selected lists of America ’ s best movies in categories including Musicals, Laughs and Thrills, drove new generations to experience classic American films.

* American Premier League, A Twenty20 cricket league in United States of America

The American Sign Language used in different regions across North America reflects the oral language around them.

See American Sign Language family for an incomplete list of ASL varieties used outside North America.

' American ' is derived from America, a term originally denoting all of the New World ( also called " the Americas ").

The Spanish term norteamericano ( North American ), is frequently used to refer things and persons from the United States, but this term can also denote people and things from Canada, and the rest of North America.

In English, " American " was used especially for people in the British America, and came to be applied to citizens of the United States when the country was formed.