Vertigo announces Straub/Easton, Cantor GNs

Book Expo America has become an increasingly important event to comics publishers as they push further into the bookstore market. DC Comics used this year’s show, now wrapped in New York City, to announce two major projects.

First, novelist Peter Straub is teaming up with screenwriter and actor Michael Easton to write an original graphic novel called “The Green Woman.” The book, set to be published under the Vertigo banner, has no release date or artist attached as yet.

Vertigo also will publish “Aaron and Ahmed,” the first graphic novel from acclaimed novelist Jay Cantor. The writer of “Krazy Kat,” “The Death of Che Guevara” and “Great Neck,” Cantor has won many prestigious awards for his fiction and worked as a screenwriter on projects for HBO, Columbia, Universal and Disney.