| Crossing Midnight | |
|---|---|
 Cover to Crossing Midnight #1, art by J. H. Williams III. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Vertigo |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Ongoing series |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | January 2007 – July 2008 |
| No. of issues | 19 |
| Main character(s) | Kai Toshi |
| Creative team | |
| Created by | Mike Carey Jim Fern |
| Written by | Mike Carey |
| Artist(s) | Jim Fern Eric Nguyen |
| Collected editions | |
| Cut Here | ISBN 1-4012-1341-3 |
| A Map of Midnight | ISBN 1-40121-645-5 |
| The Blade in the Soul | ISBN 1-40121-966-7 |
Crossing Midnight is an American horror/fantasy comic book series set in contemporary Japan. It was written by Mike Carey and illustrated by Jim Fern and Eric Nguyen, with covers by J. H. Williams III. Vertigo, a DC Comics imprint, published the series.[1] Due to poor sales, the series concluded after 19 issues.[2]
Carey has said the series was born out of his love for Japanese and Korean films, such as My Beautiful Girl, Mari, and horror manga by creators such as Junji Ito, Hideshi Hino, and Shigeru Mizuki. Carey's version, however, is still intrinsically western. It is, he says, "Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen set in Nagasaki".[1]
- ^ a b Irvine, Alex (2008), "Crossing Midnight", in Dougall, Alastair (ed.), The Vertigo Encyclopedia, New York: Dorling Kindersley, pp. 49–51, ISBN 978-0-7566-4122-1, OCLC 213309015
- ^ http://www.mikecarey.net/forum/topic.php?id=189#post-2042[permanent dead link]