Serena Valentino

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Serena Valentino is a comic book writer, based in San Francisco, who is responsible for such comics as Gloom Cookie and Nightmares & Fairy Tales.

Serena Valentino has been weaving tales that combine mythos and guile for the past eight years with her work on the comic book series GloomCookie and Nightmares & Fairy Tales published with SLG Publishing. Her most recent work, Nightmares & Fairy Tales: 1140 Rue Royale has earned her critical acclaim in both the comic and horror domain, where she is known for her unique style of storytelling, bringing her readers into exquisitely frightening worlds filled with terror, beauty and extraordinary female protagonists. She has also written the play The Bride of the Mummy, presently in pre-production in New Orleans. Currently she is writing two new comic book series, Enchanted and Hell’s Café, as well as two short films based on fairytales for the independent film company End of Sky Productions, and she is writing a novel for young adults for Disney Press based on the Wicked Queen from Snow White entitled The Fairest of All to be released in October 2008.

From Slave Labor Graphics:

Serena Valentino is SLG’s most prolific creator. She has written 28 issues of her gothic, supernatural series GloomCookie, and is heading toward twenty-one issues of Nightmares and Fairy Tales. Created with artist FSc, Nightmares originally featured short horror stories, both based on fairy tales and invented by Serena. At issue thirteen of that series, Serena launched a new story arc: “1140 Rue Royale.” It is a historical horror story based on the real Madame Lalaurie, infamous for her torture of her slaves. With art by Crab Scrambly, this series has delved into the most horrific aspects of American history. Now she is returning to the fairy tale format with artist, Camilla d' Errico, featuring stories about a Sleeping Beauty, a captured mermaid and the infamous Blue Beard.