Vertigo

When G. Willow Wilson introduced Amelia Earhart as a character in her Eisner Award-nominated series "Air" on the final page of her first arc, the Vertigo title produced what fans of the series feel is one of the great comic book reveals of recent memory.

Recognized more today as a pop culture icon than a significant historical figure (thanks in part to posthumous ads for Gap and Apple), Amelia Earhart disappeared mysteriously on July 2, 1937 while attempting to circumnavigate the globe in a Lockheed L-10 Electra twin-engine, all-metal monoplane. And while her real-life story ended – perhaps – tragically in her fortieth year, the 'open-ended' conclusion surrounding Earhart's final flight provided great fodder for Wilson when she was developing her series about flight, symbolism and political intrigue with internationally acclaimed Turkish artist MK Perker.

Read the full article and be sure to read AIR VOL. 2: FLYING MACHINE!