Dinesh Shamdasani Archives

Former Valiant Entertainment publisher, and current Bad Idea publisher Dinesh Shamdasani saw Chinese/Los Angeles investors DMG exercise their option to buy Valiant in 2018 when he was unable to find another buyer Yesterday he posted "That's true Netflix almost saved Valiant from falling into the hands of the Chinese As we were getting serious about making[...]

just as they did last year. Bad Idea "First Customer Pin" Tiki Party, Bali Hai, 2230 Shelter Island Dr 7pm, Bad Idea First Pin owners. For a little food, a lot of drinks, some great conversation with the staff and creators at BAD IDEA and, of course, a few surprises. Dinesh Shamdasani also tweeted out the following, "The BAD IDEA Tiki Party menu is out! And, once[...]

When Bad Idea announced their Kickstarter for Megalith, an opulently produced OGN from Matt Kindt, Lewis LaRosa, Laura Martin, Taylor Esposito, and Rico Renzi, I wanted details from co-CEO Dinesh Shamdasani Why a cost-prohibitively expensive printer? Why ultra-deluxe single issues for an OGN? Why an OGN from a comic company that doesn't do collections? My real[...]

We just don't know who they are or what they are doing. Former CEO Dinesh Shamdasani, who was forced out by the current owners was asked on Twitter, in response to this news, if he wanted to buy a comic book company on the cheap Shamdasani replied "Been on it all week." I don't know a Valiant[...]

Bad Idea Corp is the new comics publisher from Dinesh Shamdasani, Atom Freeman, Warren Simons, and Joshua Johns A direct-to-retailer publisher, eschewing digital and trade paperbacks in favour of one-cover one-per-person comic book sales from big comic book names Bad Idea has become famous, perhaps infamous, for their weird publishing experiments, offers, and the insane hoops and psychological games[...]

Dinesh Shamdasani, former President of Valiant entertainment, now of Bad Idea Comics and Hive Entertainment posted his own acquisition, saying "I might have just f-cked around and bought the original cover art to DARKHAWK #1! c/o DC"   Donny Cates replied "This is a lot of commitment for a bit that like three people are going to[...]

Bleeding Cool remains as sceptical as we can be regarding Bad Idea Comics' statement that they are closing at the end of the year - especially given a

The new comics publisher from Dinesh Shamdasani, Hunter Gorinson, Atom Freeman, Warren Simons, and Joshua Johns A direct-to-retailer publisher, eschewing digital and trade paperbacks in favour of one-cover one-per-person comic book sales from big comic book names But we really, really didn't believe them and said as much And then later fingered creator Raman Villalobos[...]

Come for the plot, stay for the doggo. The comic book is now being adapted as a live-action TV series from LA-based production company Allnighter, and will be executive produced by Bleeding Cool-familiar names Allnighter's Amanda Kruse, Dinesh Shamdasani, and Hunter Gorinson alongside series creator Leeanne M Krecic and former Webtoon EIC, Tom Akel who, as[...]

I am hearing a lot of late." And Bad Idea publisher Dinesh Shamdasani who is the kind of level of person who might have been involved in this, and will definitely know some of the people who are – but isn't himself – tweeted "This is something different This is DC trying to get rich[...]

Well, Bad Idea and Hivemind's Dinesh Shamdasani has the opportunity to do a very comic book version of that if he wants When he posted the state of his comic book original artwork collection on social media And blew all manner of people's minds. Image courtesy of Dinesh Shamdasani We are obviously not worthy. Let's put it[...]

However, the publisher, headed up by Dinesh Shamdasani, Warren Simons, Hunter Gorinson, Josh Johns, and Atom Freeman will be donating cash to over a hundred planned launch stores While other publishers like Valiant pause production, Bad Idea keeps going They told their creators to keep working, and are hiring more Bleeding Cool understands that includes approaches to Valiant[...]

For months, there's been rumours – and some not so subtle teasing – that former Valiant Comics executives Dinesh Shamdasani, Warren Simons, Hunter Gorinson and Josh Johns have been building something new and disruptive to mount their return to comics publishing. It looks like they're calling that something Bad Idea – a new comic book publishing house that's already racked up an[...]

Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's The Illuminatus! Trilogy is to be adapted by the director of Crank and showrunner of Happy, Brian Taylor, production company Hivemind, co-founded by Bleeding Cool favourite, and formerly of Valiant Comics, Dinesh Shamdasani, and European production company Kallisti The book was incredibly influential, not just amongst conspiracy theories of the[...]

And he tweets about the geekiest of his finds along the way. Such as picking up a first printing of Dr Frederick Wertham's Seduction Of The Innocent, the tome that doomed the nascent comic book industry in the fifties. Sooooo excited about this #mailcall!! A 1st printing of SEDUCTION OF THE INNOCENT from 1954 complete with the[...]

We just ran the speech that Dinesh Shamdasani, ex-CEO of Valiant Entertainment, made at ComicsPRO The big question is, where will Dinesh end up next? After all, after his "forced retirement" after Chinese investors DMG bought up Valiant, he said he is out of the comics business… Forced retirement (temporary) in Hawaii pic.twitter.com/FAThrRRiUQ — Dinesh Shamdasani (@dinesh_s) February[...]

The upcoming storyline is set to tie into the Harbinger Renegade storyline and help set the path for Harbinger Wars 2. Hyper RPG CEO Zack Eubanck, who also doubles as the game master for the show, called it a fun, unique experience.  He did mention he was a little worried about how he was going to[...]

This comes from a tweet by Dinesh Shamdasani, Valiant's CEO & Chief Creative Officer He doesn't say how many Bloodshot t-shirts they have to give away or how long the blood drive goes for… but if you're at the con, I'd say either find the blood drive or ask at the Valiant booth. Donate blood at[...]

Kindt said that the fact that many of the Valiant guys have been working around or with each other for years and that contributes to a sense of humility. Dinesh Shamdasani said there'll be some big merchandise announcements soon, and that'll include a massive statue in January Previews. Striking while the iron was hot around noon[...]

Gathering for the Valiant Summit (#ValiantSummit on Twitter) streamed live today on Periscope from Twitter headquarters in San Francisco, we were joined by Dinesh Shamdasani, Robert Venditti, Jen Van Meter, Warren Simons, Hunter Gorinson, and a crowd of Twitter employees who are big Valiant fans Twitter employees were greeted with some Book of Death swag[...]

The Valiant 25th Anniversary Tour panel at WonderCon on Saturday, featured Hunter Gorinson, Dinesh Shamdasani (CEO), Fred Van Lente (Ivar Timewalker), Ryan Winn (inker on Divinity). Gorinson introduced us to the company's 25th year, and Valiant 2.0 He moved straight into the new series Ivar Timewalker written by Van Lente Van Lente talked about his "functionally[...]

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We can see the mix of old and new in Valiant Next, the threads of continuity and bold choices that declare a distinctive separate phase for the publisher. Dinesh Shamdasani, Valiant's Chief Creative Officer, Warren Simons, their EIC, Fred Pierce, Valiant's Publisher, and Hunter Gorinson, Director of Marketing, Communications & Digital Media at Valiant, cleared their[...]