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Van Helsing: Vampire Hunter Kickstarter Coming Next Month

Van Helsing: Vampire Hunter Kickstarter Coming Next Month

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Zenescope is famous for putting their own signature spin on a lot of classic fables, including the Victorian world of vampires and those who hunt them. Their own Liesel Van Helsing is returning in a new miniseries that will be partially funded and promoted through a Kickstarter campaign that launches next month. The setup is rather simple: Liesel goes after Dracula. What else is she gonna do? “To this day, the Van Helsing name haunts the waking hours of vampires throughout the world,” reads Zenescope’s description. “But, in the late 1800s, at the height of the war of the night in Europe, another name rested on the tongues of humans and bloodsuckers alike, Dracula! Rumors have been growing of his impossible return and Liesel Van Helsing will do anything in her power to put an end to this nightmare that has plagued her family for generations!” As a preview, Zenescope has let us peek at the four covers that will be offered for this series, one of which you can

Zenescope Releases New Robyn Hood & Grimm Fairy Tales Comics

Zenescope Releases New Robyn Hood & Grimm Fairy Tales Comics

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Grimm Fairy Tales and its spinoff Robyn Hood are still going. These were once publisher Zenescope’s flagship titles, and I suppose in a sense they still are, but they exist in a different world. The Grimm that’s on the market today is a reboot of sorts. Grimm Fairy Tales bore some notoriety ten years ago for shamelessly carrying the premise “it’s fairy tales, but everyone is a barely dressed, weirdly-proportioned hot chick.” Fables if the writer was Larry Flynt. That was the market back in the 2000s and if Zenescope were to print “Snow White meets Carls Jr ad” comics today, they’d probably meet some blowback. Zenescope sent us the cover and some info on what’s going on with Grimm today. Here’s the situation in Volume 2, Issue 72: “The Star Spawn invasion has begun, and the might of Skye Mathers, along with the rest of Arcane Acre and MYSTERE-ORACLE OF THE DEAD, are the only things that stand between our world and complete annihilation–but will they be enough?” The

Zenescope Announces All Guts, No Glory

Zenescope Announces All Guts, No Glory

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Given that the bread and butter for comic book publisher Zenescope — since its inception — has been taking public domain concepts and turning them into shameless, embarrassing T&A shows, we were expecting their first announcement for 2022 to be a book about a barely dressed female Winnie The Pooh with D-cups. But maybe they’re saving that for later. Zenescope’s new book is a monster hunter story. Take note that by “monster hunter” we don’t mean the popular video game series by Capcom, though there is likely some inspiration there. The monster hunting universe that Zenescope is trying to push is of their own creation, and began ten years ago with the release of The Monster Hunters’ Survival Guide. It was a dark comedy that began as an illustrated novel before expanding into a comic and then leading to the spinoff Man Goat & The Bunny Man, which was published last year. Now the latest story in Zenescope’s monstrous universe is about to arrive…All Guts, No Glory. All Guts, No

Zenescope Launching Retailer Livestreams

Zenescope Launching Retailer Livestreams

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The comic book industry has been rocked by the COVID-19 pandemic harder than most, given that its main physical distribution centers tend to be mom-and-pop operations in cramped locations. It can be difficult to turn a profit with such a business under normal circumstances, let alone at a time when everyone’s afraid to step inside. One comic book publisher is looking to give their friends who distribute their products a little help, though. Zenescope Entertainment was the first comic book publisher to start using the lockdown to promote themselves virtually. Their monthly “Virtual Con” livestreams have been airing on Facebook Live and their YouTube channels since March. Viewers are encouraged to interact with Zenescope reps through talkbacks and Q&As, contests, interviews with writers and artists, and giveaways. Zenescope also uses these livestreams to sell their latest comics directly (there’s gotta be something in it for them). “Even with little time to plan the early streams, it somehow worked.” says Zenescope’s co-founder and Head Film & TV, Ralph Tedesco. “We [wanted]

Zenescope Announces Publishing Strategy Shift

Zenescope Announces Publishing Strategy Shift

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While interest in comic books has grown in recent years, it’s mostly been in areas that the long-standing Big Boys like Marvel and DC do not cater to. Things like manga, young adult fiction, slice-of-life cartoons about being a teenage girl with braces, etc. Despite the massive popularity of superheroes in other media, it hasn’t translated to growth in the medium they originated from…because your typical modern super-comic requires a monthly devotion to 32-page floppies to comprehend their long-winding storylines. Newer readers aren’t bothering. Go figure that Zenescope of all companies is going to be the first to break tradition. Their typical output is Disney by way of Larry Flynt — fairy tale stories where all the characters are rendered as buxom women. But they recognize the trend toward self-contained and easier-to-understand plotlines, and they’ve announced a new publishing plan to reflect that. According to Zenescope there will be more trade-format stories published from them in the future, and they won’t require heavy knowledge of past continuity to understand. “We

Zenescope Virtual Con Spotlights Sabine Rich

Zenescope Virtual Con Spotlights Sabine Rich

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Zenescope is a comic book and graphic novel publisher founded by Joe Brusha and Ralph Tedesco in 2005. Through their 15-year existence they’ve developed both original and licensed material and have contracted their work out to clients like Discovery Channel, History Channel, CBS, Lionsgate TV, Mandalay Vision, New Line Cinema, Titmouse Studios and others. Zenescope was also doing virtual cons before it was cool. The one they’re about to host this week is their second. During the Zenescope Virtual Con you’ll get to meet the artists and writers that make up the company, and the first big guest will be artist Sabine Rich. Sabine is a French/British comic book artist and colorist who started out coloring JP Roth’s comic books, and still draws & colors the interiors for Roth’s Theory of Magic and Rem 8. While Sabine does a lot of work for Zenescope, she’s also drawn and painted for other clients too, as well as other artists. She’s colored covers by J. Scott Campbell and Frank Cho, Ebas, Arthur

Scribd Starts Netflix-Like Service For Comics

Scribd Starts Netflix-Like Service For Comics

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Scribd, a subscription service that provides an all-you-can eat selection of books and audiobooks, has now added comic books to its lineup. Available today, Scribd’s comic section contains more 10,000 comic books from various publishers that you can read on computers, phones and tablets. Scribd isn’t the first to this party. Individual publishers Marvel and Archie comics have also tried their hand a comics subscription services. And there are services like ComicsFix, which offers a subscription to indie publishers. But Scribd is the first to have a wide variety of comics from both major and indie publishers, including Marvel, Archie, IDW, Zenescope, Dynamite, Top Shelf, Top Cow and Valiant. Sorry, no DC or Image. Scribd’s comics service is available as part of its regular $8.99 monthly fee, which also gives you access to its more than a million digital books and audiobooks. I’ve been a longtime subscriber of the Marvel Unlimited service, so I signed up for the Scribd service’s free trial to check out what was on offer. The

Comic-Con: Digital Comics Distributor ComiXology Going (Partially) DRM Free

Comic-Con: Digital Comics Distributor ComiXology Going (Partially) DRM Free

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There was a lot of big news from today’s Comic-Con International in San Diego, but this little bit might have the biggest eventual impact on actual comic books. ComiXology, the leading digital comics delivery platform, announced at its Comic-Con panel it is moving to a model without required DRM (Digital Rights Management). The big gripe about ComiXology for some people has always been that you can’t “own” the comic books. They’re only viewable online and in the ComiXology app, and if ComiXology ever went away your books might go with that. That’s no longer a dealbreaker, because under its new system ComiXology will allow users to buy comics as PDF or CBZ files or back up their existing comics in those formats. No DRM, you can read them on any software you want. Wanna read a press release quote? “For those out there who have not joined the comic reading community because of DRM – you have no excuse now,” comiXology co-founder John D. Roberts said in a statement. “We’re excited about the