During the In-Store Comic Convention, writer/editor Pat Shand talked about Zenescope Entertainment's recent move from the horror theme / bad girl fairy tales that they made their name on and moving more towards a Harry Potter, adventure theme for their overall line of books.
Shand is currently working on Charmed season 10, Grimm Fairy Tales, the[...]
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So I was a little surprised to see this today… Zenescope Entertainment, a company I have done a lot of writing for, has a daily special on their webpage where you can get exclusive variants and prints Today offers up a lovely Valetine's variant by Franchesco, two Super Bowl themed prints by eBas[...]
$30-$100 8pm
Zenescope Entertainment's 10th Anniversary Party, hosted by Echo Lake 8-11:30 pm., Level 9 Rooftop Bar & Lounge, Hotel Indigo, 509 Ninth Ave RSVP required.
HitFix Comic-Con Kick-Off Party 9 pm, Hotel Solamar, 435 Sixth Ave RSVP required.
The Art of Mortal Kombat IX & X / Star Wars Art Free Rob Kaz Art and Rodel Gonzalez[...]
Grimm Tales Of Terror is a horror anthology from Zenescope Entertainment Similar to when their Grimm Fairy Tales series began, Tales Of Terror features one-shot horror stories connected together by a narrator-ish character Here the character is Keres… and unlike with Sela, when Keres comes around someone is likely to die.The creative team for the[...]
None of those sales occurred in comic book stores but such as the power of Loot Crate that it can shift the marketshare of a smaller publisher considerably and send almost any comic to the top of the charts.
It doesn't include, say, the considerable amount of sales made by publishers such as Zenescope, Avatar and[...]
Zenescope Entertainment has teamed with action figure manufacturer Phicen Ltd and Executive Replicas to produce a line of 1/6th scale figures based on the character from the publisher's Grimm Fairy Tales universe The universe contains over 200 characters and spin-off series like Van Helsing, Wonderland, Neverland, Sinbad, Oz and Robyn Hood. Each figure will be will be[...]
By Matt Krotzer
Combining bits of the classic Jungle Book story with the dramatic warring houses intrigue of HBO's Game of Thrones, writer Mark Miller has delighted readers with his first two Jungle Book volumes from Zenescope, The Jungle Book and The Jungle Book: Last of the Species The adventures continue in The Jungle Book: Fall[...]
A lot of families are in this situation both in and out of the comic industry… its a rough time in the world and with the holidays coming, it gets even worse.
Tom Mason has been a freelance colorist for more than a decade having worked from Marvel, Image and Zenescope He colored the Jim Starlin[...]
Zenescope Entertainment has sent us over their actual pages from Diamond's Previews catalog showing what books they've got coming out in November of 2014 Those titles include Grimm Fairy Tales #104, Charmed Season 10 #2, and 10 titles that start with Grimm Fairy Tales Presents… Realm War #5, Cinderella #1, Wonderland #29, Dark Shaman #2,[...]
Word from THR is that Mythology Entertainment will adapt Zenescope's series The Library as a feature film.
The Library is a spin-off of Zenescope's flagship series Grimm Fairy Tales and focuses on of a teenage girl and her brother as they accidentally unlock various portals within a historic library that physically transport them into the strange worlds[...]
Gendercrunching May 2014 – DC Down, Marvel Up, And Looking At Archie, Avatar, Zenescope, And Valiant
We also take a look at four smaller publishers: Archie, Avatar, Zenescope, and Valiant.
DC COMICS
DC fell slightly from their April total, and was all over the place by category when compared to last month's stats In May 2014, DC released 75 comic books featuring 684 credited creators, 603 men and 81 women Here are their[...]
And when I have a chance to talk about the industry of comics, I jump at it.
Now I write for Zenescope along with quite a few other publishers and one of the questions I get has to do with variant covers Those readers who have been around a while all become a bit twitchy when[...]
He started out with Zenescope working on Robyn Hood Vs Red Riding Hood and the Wonderland on-going before moving over to Dynamite to tackle the new Purgatori series Let's turn the spotlight on and get to know him a little better.
BLEEDING COOL: How did you get started drawing?
JAVIER GARCÍA-MIRANDA: I cannot remember exactly when, I have[...]
After getting started with Blue Water and Zenescope, Cabrera is now the interior artist on The Bionic Woman: Season 4 from Dynamite We turn the artist spotlight on this rising talent…
BLEEDING COOL: How did you get started drawing?
DAVID T CABRERA: As most of the artist, I begin to draw when I was a kid[...]
Cover Variance – The Doctor At The Gaslamp District, Skottie's Spideys And What Real Women Look Like
As Zenescope launch their "Red Carpet variants" for their line of Grimm Fairy Tales comics.
A look at a few upcoming comic book variant covers… all in one place.
Such as issues of Titan's Doctor Who series, exclusive to San Diego Comic Con
Skottie Young's two covers from Superior Spider-Man #32 and Amazing[...]
Talked about the upcoming Black Science trade paperback…
Zenescope I really liked the sales rep I didn't get her name but she admitted that Zenescope is a smaller company but can provide better customer service One of the comic store owners I met, Peter of Rogue Collectibles & Comics from Canford N.J learned that he was[...]
When I first joined Bleeding Cool I started doing some artist spotlights to focus some attention on artists that I thought deserved a bit more recognition
Ralph Tedesco, along with Joe Brusha, founded Zenescope Entertainment back in 2005 with the idea of doing dark revisions on the classic fairy tales of our youth… which if you look at the original source material were pretty damn dark in the first place Their series, Grimm Fairy Tales caught on quickly and grew into[...]
Nei Ruffino has built her name as a colorist and is quite a high demand having worked from DC Comics to Zenescope and gotten to be a regular at coloring J Scott Campbell but over the last few years she been doing more and more cover work from her own pencils Now she's gotten work[...]
Fans of the TV series Charmed are going to get more of the magical sisters starting this Fall from Zenescope Entertainment The publisher put out the first 24 issues of the series from June 2010 through September of 2012 which made up the 9th season of the show Now with season 10 the relaunch of[...]
I just accepted a friend request on Facebook from colorist and fellow Zenescope collaborator Renato Guerra As I click the link I ended up on their blog where they shared the pages they colored for the back-up story for Tales From Oz #1 I wrote the main story so I had seen the pages they did, but[...]
If I say Neverland from Zenescope Entertainment then you probably think pin-up girl covers and have no idea what will be inside Well, I'm here to give you a better idea of just that… because I don't just work here for Bleeding Cool, I've been a comic book writer for the last ten years and[...]
It also had a few publishers like Aspen, Boom and Zenescope.
This was my first time attending this show though I'm a regular at the Phoenix Comic con so not only am I familiar with the city but also the convention center I knew a lot of the guests and exhibitors… heck, I knew a lot[...]
Nei Ruffino has been establishing herself as one of the top colorist in comics having started out with companies like Zenescope and moving on to DC Comics Here is a piece she did with Frank Cho.
But Nei is also making a name for herself as a cover artist Last night she posted on her deviant art[...]
I'm the writer of the comic, Sami Kivelä, who is currently illustrating the Zenescope book Hit List, is the artist, and we've already had the comic book get optioned for a film adaptation.
Before there really even is a comic book.
And no, we're not Mark Millar So how did this even happen? That's a damn good[...]
A simple ideology that no matter how random things may see, only in the end, after all the connections are made, does one see the purpose of those events.
Jean- Paul Deshong, artist from titles Damsels (Mermaids), by Dynamite Entertainment, Neverland, by Zenescope Entertainment, and Big Bad Wolf, By Arch Enemy Entertainment, now brings you his[...]
Prior to that, I worked on 'Jurassic Strike Force 5' for Zenescope, 'Yva Starling:Troubleshooter', and 'Gun Street Girl' among other things.
BC: What are you working on now?
HOWE: I'm just starting the first issue of the new 'Henchmen' arc (henchmencomic.com) which will be a 5 issue mini-series spinning out of the one shot, and I'm also[...]
So if you see them at a convention go over and say 'hi'.
Alfred has done work for Zenescope, Big Dog Ink as well as his own book with his wife, Project Shadows. More of his work can be seen here
BLEEDING COOL: How did you get started drawing?
ALFRED TRUJILLO: I got started drawing when I was five years[...]
From the new August figures;
PUBLISHER MARKET SHARES
RETAIL MARKET SHARE
PUBLISHER
SHARE
MARVEL COMICS
33.70%
DC COMICS
30.16%
IMAGE COMICS
7.86%
IDW PUBLISHING
5.70%
DARK HORSE COMICS
5.47%
DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT
3.01%
BOOM! STUDIOS
2.05%
EAGLEMOSS PUBLICATIONS LTD
1.34%
AVATAR PRESS INC
0.95%
ZENESCOPE ENTERTAINMENT INC
0.94%
OTHER NON-TOP 10
8.83%
UNIT MARKET SHARE
PUBLISHER
SHARE
MARVEL COMICS
36.30%
DC COMICS
33.14%
IMAGE COMICS
8.51%
IDW PUBLISHING
4.98%
DARK HORSE COMICS
4.80%
DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT
2.93%
BOOM! STUDIOS
2.07%
ZENESCOPE ENTERTAINMENT INC
1.03%
VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT LLC
0.97%
ASPEN MLT INC
0.65%
OTHER NON-TOP 10
So that's the marketshare, divided into Units, the amount of titles sold and[...]
He's done work for Aspen, Image and Zenescope with a few things in the works now and he posts a lot of his new work on his blog so you can keep up with his latest stuff But talk is cheap, lets get to the interview and art:
BLEEDING COOL: How did you get started drawing?
BRENT PEEPLES:[...]