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Van Helsing season 2
It was inspired by the Zenescope Entertainment comic Helsing. When the series was picked up for a second season, showrunner Neil LaBute said released this statement: "It's with great pleasure and extreme excitement that all of us involved with Van Helsing receive the news of a pick-up for a second season, especially this early in our initial run[...]
1001 Arabian Nights: Adventures Of Sinbad – 24 Trades Of Christmas
Back in the mid-2000's I got asked by Zenescope Entertainment to do up a new take on the classic 1001 Arabian Nights character of Sinbad They gave me one note on a direction… Captain Jack Sparrow meets James Bond… and they gave me a bald, tattooed Sinbad designed by Gustavo Vazquez I got to work[...]
Syfy Renews The Zenescope Inspired Series Van Helsing
Inspired by the Zenescope Entertainment character, the series stars Kelly Overton as Vanessa Helsing, humanity's last hope in a world dominated by Vampires In a unique twist, Helsing is not only immune to being turned, but her blood can turn a vampire back into a human. Showrunner Neil LaBute had this to say about the renewal: We have[...]
A Look Inside Syfy's New Van Helsing Series
Based on the Zenescope Entertainment comic, the series is set in a future where vampires rule and humans are nothing but cattle… until Vanessa Van Helsing (Kelly Overton) wakes up The pilot premiered early in September, but it was re-shown last night along with the second episode. Below we have inside looks about the first two episodes,[...]
Zenescope Launches Evil Heroes From Joe Brusha And Eric J
Zenescope are launching a superhero team comic – but one that's a little more Crime Syndicate than Justice League. Evil Heroes is a six issue limited series by Joe Brusha and Eric J. With great power… comes great corruption Superheroes are real They walk the earth as gods among men But the fairy tales of them protecting mankind and[...]
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[...]