Hellblazer occurs as comic book series published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics, which features the central character John Constantine. These are on-going since a 1980s.

Creation of character
A character John Constantine was originally created by Alan Moore, debuting in the horror series Swamp Thing. Whenever he 1st appears, John Constantine occurs as trenchcoated sorcerer of ambivalent morality, who physically closely resembles a musician Sting, (specifically as he appeared in the picture Quadrophenia). In point of fact, he was created because artists Stephen R. Bissette and John Totleben, who were fans of The Police, wanted to draw a character who looked like Sting, and had already drawn at least one background character in his likeness. Around 1 Swamp Tool story this resemblence is acknowledged after Constantine is found to become rowing the boat known as A Honorable Gordon Sumner, the information to Sting's rattling title.

A character was given his have comedian book, Hellblazer, within 1988, featuring writer Jamie Delano and artist John Ridgway, with distinctive painted & collage covers by Dave McKean. A original title, Hellraiser, was dropped due to the simultaneous release of Clive Barker's unrelated film of the same title. Others world health organization stand worked on the series include writers Garth Ennis, Warren Ellis, Brian Azzarello, John Smith and Mike Carey and artists Mark Buckingham, Tim Bradstreet (notably on covers) & Steve Dillon.

Hellblazer occurs as by all odds dark comedian book, its independent character typically seen doing morally confutable items when tricking his way across the contemporary world using very much of magic and supernatural conflict going in behind a scenes. Patch every now & again clearly heroic, Constantine is supplementary typically than does'nt just fighting for his survival and commonly making other enemies in the run. He is too extremely manipulative, & has oftentimes sacrificed a populates & mortals of others about him sequentially to achieve his terminates. Numerous one people haunt him, & he oft finds himself existence followed as much as by an ever increasing retinue of ghostly figures.

Constantine has been featured inside many more comic book titles, like The Sandman and The Books of Magic.

An Americanized Hellblazer picture show, coroneted Constantine, was released within 2005.

Books
Hellblazer has been incompletely collected as a total of trade softback book by DC Vertigo. Inside chronological sequentially, it is when follows: