| Flinch | |
| Schedule: | Monthly/Bi-monthly |
| Format: | Standard |
| Publisher: | Vertigo Comics |
| Date: | June 1999 – January 2001 |
| Issues: | 16 |
| Genre: | Horror |
Flinch is a Vertigo Comics horror anthology.
It ran 16 issues from June 1999 until January 2001 and featured the talents of Jim Lee, Bill Willingham, Frank Quitely, Joe R. Lansdale, and many others. Rumours of cancellation seemed to plague the book throughout its run.[1]
Timothy Truman said of the series: "...the best art I've done in any single comics story is on the "Brer Hoodoo" short story I did with Joe for Vertigo's Flinch anthology".[2]
| Date | Cover artist | Story | Story writer | Story artist | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 1999 | Phil Hale | Rocket-Man | Jim Lee | ||
| Nice Neighborhood | Frank Quitely | |||||
| Wolf Girl Eats | Richard Corben | |||||
| 2 | July 1999 | Maggie and her Microscope | ||||
| Pat McEown | ||||||
| Food Chain | Eduardo Risso | |||||
| 3 | August 1999 | Night Terrors | Kelley Jones | |||
| A Walk in the Park | Marcelo Frusin | |||||
| Satanic | Kieron Dwyer | |||||
| 4 | September 1999 | A Gift of Friendship | Kent Williams | Kent Williams | ||
| Fair Trade | Ty Templeton | |||||
| Playing Dead | Paul Gulacy | |||||
| 5 | October 1999 | Betrothed | Rick Burchett | |||
| Peeping Bob | Colin Raff | James Romberger | ||||
| Fumes | Marc Hempel | |||||
| 6 | November 1999 | Dead Woman Walking | Duncan Fegredo | |||
| El Ogro | Ho Che Anderson | |||||
| The Day Wife | Ande Parks | |||||
| 7 | December 1999 | Parade | Phil Jimenez | |||
| The Toy | Randy DuBurke | |||||
| It Takes A Village | Bill Willingham | |||||
| 8 | January 2000 | Guts | ||||
| You've Got Hate Mail | Marcelo Frusin | |||||
| The Lotus Shoes | John Kuramoto | John J. Muth | ||||
| 9 | February 2000 | Mostly White | Bruce Jones | Dave Taylor | ||
| The Harvester | Thom Metzger | Sean Phillips | ||||
| Sitter | John Estes | |||||
| 10 | March 2000 | Last Call | Danijel Zezelj | |||
| In the Pink | Ken Rothstein | Frank Teran | ||||
| The Mule | David Lloyd | |||||
| 11 | April 2000 | Red Romance | Bruce Timm | |||
| Emergent | Cliff Chiang | |||||
| Prepacked | Dave Taylor | |||||
| 12 | May 2000 | Mitch O'Connell | Watching You | Bruce Jones | Frank Quitely | |
| Tin God | Ryan Sook | |||||
| Mondays | Essad Ribic | |||||
| 13 | July 2000 | Brer Hoodoo | Tim Truman | |||
| The Story of a Nut Gone Bad... | Roger Langridge | |||||
| The Shaft | Brian Azzarello | Javier Pulido | ||||
| 14 | September 2000 | Resolve | Bruce Jones | Berni Wrightson | ||
| Grave Wisdom | Ted McKeever | |||||
| If Wishes Had Wings | Tim Levins | |||||
| 15 | November 2000 | A Night To Forget | The Pander Bros | |||
| Watchful | Chris Weston | |||||
| The Future's so Bright | Robert Valley | |||||
| 16 | January 2001 | The Wedding Breakfast | Craig Hamilton | |||
| a temporary life. | Charlie Boatner | Philip Bond | ||||
| DESCENT | Guy Gonzalez | Danijel Zezelj |
Issue #11 won a Horror Writers' Association Bram Stoker Award for "Red Romance" by Joe R. Lansdale.[3] Issue #11 also received a nomination for a 2001 Will Eisner Comic Industry award for best cover artist (Phil Hale).