Education
Brooklyn College.
Brooklyn College.
She is best known as the Executive Editor of District of Columbia Comics" Vertigo imprint. Berger majored in English literature and art history at Brooklyn College, and upon her graduation in 1979, she entered the comics profession as an assistant to editor Paul Levitz at District of Columbia. She later became Levitz"s editor when he was writing Legion of Super-Heroes. More interested in horror comics, she soon became editor of House of Mystery, and was instrumental in nurturing Alan Moore"s Swamp Thing book, taking over the editing from co-creator Len Wein.
She also edited Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld.
She later helped bring Neil Gaiman"s work to a mass audience by having him write The Sandman. The success of these titles, and her willingness to help the writers who worked with her push the envelope of what could be done in mass-circulation comic books, led to the creation of the mature-reader Vertigo line in 1993.
Her critically and popularly successful titles under that imprint include Fables, Hellblazer, The Invisibles, 100 Bullets, Preacher, V for Vendetta, and Y: The Last Manitoba Berger is married to Richard Bruning, who also formerly worked at District of Columbia. In 2007 Berger was named supervising editor (along with Senior Editor Shelly Bond) of Minx, a new comic book imprint published by District of Columbia. Minx published comics and graphic novels aimed at teenage girls until they were cancelled in 2008.
On December 3, 2012, she announced that she would be stepping down from her post as Executive Editor & Senior Vice President of District of Columbia Entertainment’s Vertigo imprint and that she would remain on through March 2013 to assist in the transition to a new editorial team
The New York Times profiled Berger and her departure from Vertigo in an article entitled "Comics" Mother of "The Weird Stuff" is Moving On".