Mr. Kadabra is a member of the 13th floor witches, in Vertigo's Fables series.

He also lettered the entire runs of Marvel's Universe X ( 2000 – 2001 ); DC / Vertigo's Fables ( 2002 – present ), Books of Magick: Life During Wartime ( 2005 – 2006 ), Justice ( 2005 – 2007 ), Jack of Fables ( 2006 – present ), and Simon Dark ( 2007 – present ).

The Sandman was one of Vertigo's flagship titles, and is available as a series of ten trade paperbacks.

The ninth comic launched at Vertigo's 1993 debut was the Vertigo Preview, showcasing the concurrently released titles, as well as J. M. DeMatteis ' Mercy, Ann Nocenti's Kid Eternity ( an ongoing series spun off from the earlier Morrison-penned miniseries ), Dick Foreman's Black Orchid ( an on-going series spun off from the Gaiman / McKean miniseries ) and Matt Wagner's Sandman Mystery Theatre.

The following on-going series had issues released during Vertigo's anniversary year and those issues carried the " Vertigo X " branding:

He took over the editing of 100 Bullets and later assumed the reins of Vertigo's biggest hit series since Preacher, Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra's Y: The Last Man.

Inarguably the name most associated with Vertigo's cover output is the artist who provided all of the covers to the Vertigo's highest profile series-The Sandman series ( 1989 – 96 ): Dave McKean.

Vertigo's other output in its debut month consisted of a half-dozen continuing DC series, newly moved to the mature imprint.

Mike Dringenberg ( born ) is a German / American comic book artist best known for his work on DC / Vertigo's Sandman series with writer Neil Gaiman after original artist Sam Kieth's departure.

Although all characters feature three finishing moves, some of them were more Easter Eggs than fatalities, such as Vertigo's " La Vache Qui Rit " ( French for " the laughing cow "), a fatality in which Vertigo transforms her opponent into a cow, which moos and runs away.

She is the primary antagonist ; the story is based on characters seen in Vertigo's Sandman and The Books of Magic.

Her first appearance in " Off Balance " is based on Talia's first appearance in the comics, with only minor differences, mainly that the villain is Count Vertigo instead of Dr. Ebeneezer Darrk, and she is tracking Vertigo for her father instead of being Vertigo's prisoner.

Waller is eventually pardoned and released a year later to reorganize the Squad as a freelance mercenary group at the behest of Sarge Steel to deal with a crisis in Vlatava, Count Vertigo's home country ; Waller allowed herself to enter prison because she knew two things perfectly well: one, by confronting the LOA with Squad operatives, she had crossed the line, and two, she would return to her position quite easily if she was ever needed again.

He also has ties to DC / Vertigo's Swamp Thing character, vital in the sprout storyline ( Swamp Thing # 66 November 1987 ).

Lovecraft by Hans Rodionoff, Keith Giffen and Enrique Breccia was previewed for release during Vertigo's anniversary year, but ultimately saw print in Mar / May 2004.

He also edited several miniseries for both Vertigo and Vertigo's sister imprint Helix.

Although the " mature reader " works of Alan Moore, Grant Morrison ( with Jamie Delano and Neil Gaiman ) under the DC imprint paved the way for Vertigo's launch, neither author was part of the initial line-up.

Vertigo's main Universe titles-The Sandman, Hellblazer and Swamp Thing-have been particularly artistically diverse, and home to many talents, while the large number of creator-owned miniseries has seen large numbers of individuals producing work for Vertigo.

The High Cost of Living became one of Vertigo's earliest hardcover collected editions when it was published as such in November, 1993.

" Vandal Savage's attack was all part of Count Vertigo's plot to delay the heart delivery to Queen Perdita of Vlatava.

A one-off story for Vertigo's tenth anniversary was published in 2003.

This port features a few additions, such as Vertigo's fatalities each have different colored rings.

Jones's major illustrated series include wood engravings produced for editions of The Book of Jonah, The Chester Play Of The Deluge, Aesop's Fables and Gulliver's Travels as well as for a Welsh translation of the Book of Ecclesiastes, Llyfr y Pregethwr.

This inspired him to begin creating etchings for a series of illustrated books, including Gogol's Dead Souls, the Bible, and the Fables of La Fontaine.

In Fables and Reflections, the seventh volume of Neil Gaiman's comic series The Sandman, the maenads feature in the story Orpheus, in which they gruesomely murder the titular character after he refuses to cavort with them ( echoing the events of the actual Greek myth of Orpheus ).

* TenNapel has also contributed to several other comic books, such as issue # 5 of Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror, issue # 3 of Scud: Tales from the Vending Machine ( TenNapel also contributed cover art to the 24th and final issue of the main Scud: The Disposable Assassin series, as well as penciling a single page on the same issue ), the Fractured Fables anthology graphic novel, 9-11: September 11, 2001 ( Artists Respond ), and Flight Volume 2.

* Fables: Kay and the Snow Queen appear in Bill Willingham's comic book series from DC Comics Vertigo Imprint.

Vertigo comics series have won the comics industry's Eisner Award, including the Best Continuing Series of various years ( The Sandman, Preacher, 100 Bullets and Fables ).

In 2004, he returned to the world of the Sandman with Sandman Presents: Thessaly: Witch for Hire, and 2006 saw the debut of the Vertigo-esque magical-but mainstream DCU title-Shadowpact and Fables companion series Jack of Fables.

After losing his Aesop's Film Fables series to Van Beuren Studios in 1929, Paul Terry established a new studio called Terrytoons.

Around 1921, Terry founded the Fables animation studio, named for its Aesop's Film Fables series, in conjunction with Amadee J.

* Bill Willingham's Eisner Award-winning comic book series Fables, published by Vertigo Comics, features the Jungle Book's Mowgli, Bagheera and Shere Khan ; though their characterisation remains true to Kipling's stories, Willingham and artist Mark Buckingham also make oblique references to the 1967 Disney animation in dialogue and artwork.

The chief novelty in At the Sign of the Lyre was the series of " Fables of Literature and Art ," founded in manner upon John Gay.

His Fables -- the first series published in 1828, the second posthumously in 1833 — were illustrated with woodcuts by Harvey from Northcote's own designs.

In the comic book series Jack of Fables, the Pathetic Fallacy itself is embodied by a character named Gary, who has control over inanimate objects and treats them with a peculiar sense of kindness.

The comic book series Fables by Bill Willingham features a reformed Big Bad Wolf as a major character, commonly referred to as " Bigby ".

One of the earliest examples of these urban slang translations was the series of individual fables contained in a single folded sheet, appearing under the title of Les Fables de Gibbs in 1929.

Brownhills alphabet plate, Aesop's Fables series, The Fox and the Grapes c. 1880

Cartoonist Paul Terry began his own series, called Aesop's Film Fables, in 1921 but by the time this was taken over by Van Beuren Studios in 1928 the story lines had little connection with any fable of Aesop's.

Others include Zigzag from The Thief and the Cobbler ( the original inspiration for the character of Jafar in Disney's Aladdin ), the comic book character Iznogoud, Prince Sinbad's advisor Yusuf in the DC Vertigo series Fables, and the villains of the video games Prince of Persia and King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow.

* Sinbad appears in the comic book series Fables written by Bill Willingham, and as the teenaged Alsind in the comic book series Arak, Son of Thunder — which takes place in the 9th century AD — written by Roy Thomas.

King Louie appears in the Fables comic series published by Vertigo comics.

In a large contrast to how she's usually portrayed, the DC Comics Vertigo series Fables shows her as a ruthless assassin who found that she enjoyed killing after being hired by the Wizard to kill the Witch of the West, who gave her the job to do so after he'd heard that she'd killed the Witch of the East.