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President's Day Variant Covers?
mattress stores have sales. 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[...]
The Enormous Party List Of SDCC 2015
$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[...]
Buried Alive – Preview Of Grimm Tales Of Terror #12
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[...]
Modern Day Myths About Marketshare
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 Announces Line Of 1/6th Scale Figures
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[...]
Comic Colorist Struggles To Get His Truck Repaired
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[...]
Charmed Season 10, A New Cinderella And More From Zenescope in November 2014
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,[...]
Zenescope's The Library Optioned By Mythology Entertainment
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[...]
The Perils Of Keeping A Comic Priced At $2.99
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[...]
Artist Spotlight – Javier Garcia-Miranda Of Dynamite's Purgatori
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[...]
Artist Spotlight – David T. Cabrera Of Dynamite's Bionic Woman
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[...]
Rodman Comics Went To Las Vegas – A Diamond Retailer Summit Report
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[...]
Grimm Fairy Tales Heads Towards Issue 100 And An Age Of Darkness
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 Shares Her Latest Covers – Pencils And Colors
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[...]
Charmed Comes Back To Comics For Season 10
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[...]
What A Good Colorist Can Do For Your Art
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[...]
Come With Me To Neverland… And Bring A Gun
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[...]
The Amazing Arizona Con – A Growing Convention With Ideas
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[...]
The Growth Of An Artist Over Three Decades
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[...]
Instinct, Or Doing It All Backwards
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 Cut That Could Pierce The Universe Itself – Sons Of Fate
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[...]
Shining A Spotlight – Ryan Howe
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[...]
Shining A Spotlight – Alfred Trujillo
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[...]
Marketshare Per Comic – A New Way Of Measuring Publisher Performance
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[...]
Shining A Spotlight – Brent Peeples
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:[...]