Flinch was a Vertigo Comics horror

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 anthology

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It ran 16 issues from June 1999

1999 in comics

-February:* February 3: Pioneering editor Vin Sullivan dies at age 87.* February 26: John L. Goldwater, co-founder of Archie Comics, dies at age 82.-March:* Incredible Hulk is canceled by Marvel with issue #474.-May:...

 until January 2001

2001 in comics

-Year overall:* Marvel Comics withdraws from the Comics Code Authority and established its own rating system for its publications.- January :* January 23: Fred Ray, Superman's primary cover artist of the 1940s, passes away at age 80.- September :...

 and featured the talents of Jim Lee

Jim Lee

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, Bill Willingham

Bill Willingham

Bill Willingham is an American writer and artist of comics.-Career:Willingham got his start in the late 1970s to early 1980s as a staff artist for TSR, Inc., where he illustrated a number of their role-playing game products...

, Frank Quitely

Frank Quitely

Vincent Deighan, better known by the pen name Frank Quitely, is a Scottish comic book artist. He is best known for his frequent collaborations with Grant Morrison on titles such as New X-Men, We3, All-Star Superman, and Batman and Robin, as well as his work with Mark Millar on The...

 and many others. Rumors of being canceled seemed to plague the book throughout its printing.

Tim 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." Issue #11 won a Horror Writers' Association Bram Stoker Award for "Red Romance" by Joe R. Lansdale.

Issue guide

#	Date	Cover Artist	Story	Story Writer	Story Artist
1	June 1999	Phil Hale Phil Hale Philip Oliver Hale, born in 1963, is an American figurative painter who currently resides in London, England.Prior to turning to fine arts he worked as an illustrator, doing mostly figurative work...	Rocket-Man	Richard Bruning Richard Bruning Richard Bruning is an American graphic designer and comics creator who is currently the Senior Vice-President-Creative Director of DC Comics.-Biography:...	Jim Lee Jim Lee Jim Lee is a Korean-American comic book artist, writer, editor and publisher. He first broke into the industry in 1987 as an artist for Marvel Comics, illustrating titles such as Alpha Flight and Punisher War Journal, before gaining a great deal of popularity on The Uncanny X-Men...
			Nice Neighborhood	Jen Van Meter Jen Van Meter Jennifer "Jen" Van Meter is an American comic book writer best known for her Oni Press series Hopeless Savages as well as for series at Marvel and DC Comics. Her most recent work for Marvel features Felicia Hardy, aka Black Cat...	Frank Quitely Frank Quitely Vincent Deighan, better known by the pen name Frank Quitely, is a Scottish comic book artist. He is best known for his frequent collaborations with Grant Morrison on titles such as New X-Men, We3, All-Star Superman, and Batman and Robin, as well as his work with Mark Millar on The...
			Wolf Girl Eats	Bruce Jones Bruce Jones Ian Roy Jones is an English actor, best known for his role as cab driver Les Battersby-Brown in Coronation Street. He left the role in 2007. His real name is Ian Roy Jones, but he took the name of his father for professional purposes.-Early life:Jones was born to Bruce and Irene Jones in...	Richard Corben Richard Corben Richard Corben is an American illustrator and comic book artist best known for his comics featured in Heavy Metal magazine...
2	July 1999	Richard Corben Richard Corben Richard Corben is an American illustrator and comic book artist best known for his comics featured in Heavy Metal magazine...	Maggie and her Microscope	Dean Motter Dean Motter Dean Motter is an illustrator, designer and writer who worked for many years in Toronto, Canada, New York City, and Atlanta. Motter is best known as the creator and designer of Mister X, one of the most influential "new-wave" comics of the 1980s....	Bill Sienkiewicz Bill Sienkiewicz Boleslav Felix Robert "Bill" Sienkiewicz [pronounced sin-KEV-itch] is an Eisner Award-winning American artist and writer best known for his comic book work, primarily for Marvel Comics' The New Mutants and Elektra: Assassin...
			Found Object Found object A found object, in an artistic sense, indicates the use of an object which has not been designed for an artistic purpose, but which exists for another purpose already. Found objects may exist either as utilitarian, manufactured items, or things which occur in nature...	Bob Fingerman	Pat McEown
			Food Chain	Brian Azzarello Brian Azzarello Brian Azzarello is an American comic book writer. He came to prominence with the hardboiled crime series 100 Bullets, published by DC Comics' mature-audience imprint Vertigo.-Career:...	Eduardo Risso Eduardo Risso Eduardo Risso is an Argentine comic book artist. In the United States he is probably best known for his work with writer Brian Azzarello on the Vertigo title 100 Bullets, while in Argentina and Europe he is noted for his collaborations with Ricardo Barreiro and Carlos Trillo...
3	August 99		Night Terrors	John Rozum John Rozum John Rozum is an American writer of comic books who is best known for his work for Milestone Comics, where he wrote Xombi and Kobalt. He has also worked for Topps Comics and Marvel Comics...	Kelley Jones Kelley Jones Kelley Jones is an American comic book artist best known for his runs on Batman with writer Doug Moench and on Sandman with writer Neil Gaiman.-Biography:...
			A Walk in the Park	Scott Cunningham Scott Cunningham Scott Douglas Cunningham was a U.S. writer. Cunningham is the author of several books on Wicca and various other alternative religious subjects....	Marcelo Frusin Marcelo Frusin Marcelo Frusin is an Argentine artist who works for the US comic book market.-Biography:Frusin's style resembles his fellow Argentine artist Eduardo Risso...
			Satanic	Garth Ennis Garth Ennis Garth Ennis is a Northern Irish comics writer, best known for the Vertigo series Preacher with artist Steve Dillon and his successful nine-year run on Marvel Comics' Punisher franchise...	Kieron Dwyer Kieron Dwyer Kieron Dwyer is an American comic book artist and penciller.-Biography:Dwyer is best known for his work on Captain America vol. 1 , Danger Unlimited , Action Comics , Avengers Kieron Dwyer (born March 6, 1967) is an American comic book artist and penciller.-Biography:Dwyer is best known for his...
4	September 1999		A Gift of Friendship	Kent Williams	Kent Williams
5	October 1999		Betrothed	Joe R. Lansdale Joe R. Lansdale Joe R. Lansdale is an American author and martial-arts expert. He has written novels and stories in many genres, including Western, horror, science fiction, mystery, and suspense...	Rick Burchett Rick Burchett Rick Burchett is an American comic book artist known for his work on such characters as Batman and Superman.Burchett began his artistic career in St...
			Peeping Bob	Colin Raff	James Romberger James Romberger James Romberger is an American fine artist and cartoonist known for his depictions of New York City's Lower East Side.Romberger's pastel drawings of the ravaged landscape of the Lower East Side and its citizens are in many public and private collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art...
			Fumes	Mark Wheatley Mark Wheatley Mark A. Wheatley is a Democratic member of the Utah State House of Representatives, representing the 35th District since 2004.Wheatley has a bachelors degree from Westminster College.-External links:* official UT House profile* profile...	Marc Hempel Marc Hempel Marc Hempel is an American cartoonist/comics artist best known for his work on The Sandman with Neil Gaiman.-Biography:...
6	November 1999
7	December 1999		Parade	Devin Grayson	Phil Jimenez Phil Jimenez Phil Jimenez is an American comic book writer, artist and penciller, known for his work as writer/artist on Wonder Woman from 2000 to 2003, as one of the five pencilers of the 2005-2006 miniseries Infinite Crisis, and his collaborations with writer Grant Morrison on New X-Men and The...
8	January 2000		Guts	Greg Rucka Greg Rucka Gregory "Greg" Rucka is an American comic book writer and novelist, known for his work on such comics as Action Comics, Batwoman: Detective Comics, and the miniseries Superman: World of New Krypton for DC Comics, and for novels such as his Queen & Country series.-Career:Rucka's writing career...	James Romberger James Romberger James Romberger is an American fine artist and cartoonist known for his depictions of New York City's Lower East Side.Romberger's pastel drawings of the ravaged landscape of the Lower East Side and its citizens are in many public and private collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art...
			You've Got Mail	Robert Rodi Robert Rodi Robert Rodi is an American novelist, playwright, comic book writer, essayist, and performance artist.-Biography:...	Marcelo Frusin Marcelo Frusin Marcelo Frusin is an Argentine artist who works for the US comic book market.-Biography:Frusin's style resembles his fellow Argentine artist Eduardo Risso...
			The Lotus Shoes	John Kuramoto	John J. Muth
9	February 2000		Mostly White	Bruce Jones	Dave Taylor Dave Taylor (comics) Dave Taylor is a British comic book creator. He is best known for his work on Force Works, as well as Batman and Judge Dredd stories.-Biography:Taylor was born in Liverpool in 1964 and attended the Liverpool Arts School....
			The Harvester	Thom Metzger	Sean Phillips Sean Phillips Sean Phillips is a British comic book artist.He is best known in the American comic book industry for his work on DC Comics' Sleeper, WildC.A.T.s, Batman and Hellblazer.-Career:...
			Sitter	Steven T. Seagle Steven T. Seagle Steven T. Seagle is an American writer who works in the comic book, television, film, live theater, video game, and animation, industries....	John Estes John Estes John Estes is an American football center. He graduated from the University of Hawaii at Manoa with a degree in Communications in December 2009....
10	March 2000
11	April 2000		Red Romance	Joe Lansdale	Bruce Timm Bruce Timm Bruce Walter Timm is an American character designer, animator and producer. He is also a writer and artist working in comics, and is known for his contributions building the modern DC Comics animated franchise, the DC animated universe.-Animation:Timm's early career in animation was varied; he...
12	May 2000		Watching You	Bruce Jones	Frank Quitely Frank Quitely Vincent Deighan, better known by the pen name Frank Quitely, is a Scottish comic book artist. He is best known for his frequent collaborations with Grant Morrison on titles such as New X-Men, We3, All-Star Superman, and Batman and Robin, as well as his work with Mark Millar on The...
13	July 2000		Brer Hoodoo	Joe R. Lansdale Joe R. Lansdale Joe R. Lansdale is an American author and martial-arts expert. He has written novels and stories in many genres, including Western, horror, science fiction, mystery, and suspense...	Tim Truman
			The Story of a Nut Gone Bad...	Roger Langridge Roger Langridge Roger Langridge is a New Zealand-born comics writer/artist/letterer, currently living in Britain.-Biography:Langridge originally came to public prominence most notably with the Judge Dredd Megazine series The Straitjacket Fits , a surreal, hallucinatory, convention-bending strip set in an insane...	Roger Langridge
			The Shaft	Brian Azzarello	Javier Pulido
14	September 2000	Michael Wm. Kaluta	Resolve	Bruce Jones	Berni Wrightson
			Grave Wisdom	Ted McKeever Ted McKeever -Career:McKeever first professional work appeared in 1987, when he published the first five parts of his unfinished series Transit , establishing his trademark style. This was followed in 1987-1988 by his 12-part series Eddy Current. This "12-hour book" centers on an escapee from an asylum...	Ted McKeever Ted McKeever -Career:McKeever first professional work appeared in 1987, when he published the first five parts of his unfinished series Transit , establishing his trademark style. This was followed in 1987-1988 by his 12-part series Eddy Current. This "12-hour book" centers on an escapee from an asylum...
			If Wishes Had Wings	Darko Macan Darko Macan Darko Macan is a Croatian author and illustrator who has created and collaborated on comics, essays and science fiction and fantasy...	Tim Levins Tim Levins Tim Levins is a Canadian comic book artist who co-created The Copybook Tales with writer J. Torres. In 1998, he and Torres created Siren, a miniseries for Image Comics, and in 2008 they created The Family Dynamic for DC Comics...
15	November 2000	Dean Ormston Dean Ormston Dean Ormston is a British born comic book artist. His most notable work has been for the British comic 2000 AD and for DC Comics' Vertigo imprint.-Biography:...	A Night To Forget	Paul Jenkins Paul Jenkins (writer) Paul Jenkins is a British comic book writer and Gary Gygax's stepson. He has had much success crossing over into the American comic book market. Primarily working for Marvel Comics, he has had a big part shaping the characters of the company over the past decade.-Life and career:Paul Jenkins...	The Pander Bros
			Watchful	Lucius Shepard Lucius Shepard Lucius Shepard is an American writer. Classified as a science fiction and fantasy writer, he often leans into other genres, such as magical realism. His work is infused with a political and historical sensibility and an awareness of literary antecedents...	Chris Weston Chris Weston Chris Weston is a British comics artist who has worked both in the US and UK comics industries.-Biography:Weston was born in January, 1969 in Rinteln, Germany, and lived in various countries as a child...
			The Future's so Bright	Will Pfeifer Will Pfeifer -Personal life:Will Pfeifer was born in 1967 in the town of Niles, Ohio. He attended Kent State University and graduated in 1989. He has resided in Rockford, Illinois since 1990, with his wife, Amy....	Robert Valley
16	January 2001	Richard Corben Richard Corben Richard Corben is an American illustrator and comic book artist best known for his comics featured in Heavy Metal magazine...	The Wedding Breakfast	Mike Carey	Craig Hamilton Craig Hamilton Craig Peter Hamilton is a Scottish internationalist rugby union player. His position is lock and currently he plays at club level for Edinburgh Rugby.-Career:...
			a temporary life.	Charlie Boatner	Philip Bond Philip Bond Philip J. Bond is a British comic book artist, who first came to prominence in the late 1980s on Deadline magazine, and later through a number of collaborations with British writers for the DC Comics imprint Vertigo....
			DESCENT	Guy Gonzalez	Danijel Zezelj Danijel Zezelj Danijel Zezelj is a Croatian comic book artist, painter and illustrator and author of a number of graphic novels.-Biography:Zezelj studied classical painting, sculpting and printing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Croatia....

Awards

Issue #11 also received a nomination for a 2001 Will Eisner Comic Industry award for best cover artist (Phil Hale).