Serena Valentino is a comic book writer, based in San Francisco, who is responsible for such comics as Gloomcookie

Gloomcookie

Gloomcookie is a goth comic series created and written by Serena Valentino and co-created by Ted Naifeh, who also illustrated the comic’s first 6 issues. The series functions both as a social satire on real-life Gothic subculture and as a supernatural fantasy.Gloomcookie is irregularly published...

and Nightmares & Fairy Tales

Nightmares & Fairy Tales

Nightmares and Fairy Tales is an American comic book, written by Serena Valentino and published by Slave Labor Graphics. It's about a strange little doll called Annabelle. Nightmares and Fairy Tales chronicles the events that happen, good or bad, as she comes into the possession of many people...

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Valentino 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 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

Slave Labor Graphics

Slave Labor Graphics is an independent American comic book publisher, well-known for publishing darkly humorous, offbeat comics.-Company history:...

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Her most recent work, Nightmares & Fairy Tales: 1140 Rue Royale, a historical horror story based on the real Madame Lalaurie

Delphine LaLaurie

Marie Delphine LaLaurie , more commonly known as Madame LaLaurie, was a Louisiana-born socialite, known for her involvement in the torture of black slaves....

, infamous for her torture of her slaves, has earned her critical acclaim in both the comics and horror domain. With art by Crab Scrambly, this series delves into the most horrific aspects of American history.

Currently Valentino is writing two new comic book series, Enchanted and Hell’s Café. Now she is returning to the fairy tale format with artist Camilla d'Errico

Camilla d'Errico

Camilla d'Errico is a Canadian comic book illustrator, painter and visual artist.-Early life:d'Errico is a first generation Canadian, born in Ottawa, Ontario. Her Italian parents immigrated to Canada before she was born...

, featuring stories about a sleeping beauty, a captured mermaid and the infamous Blue Beard.

She has also written the play The Bride of the Mummy, presently in pre-production in New Orleans. Currently she is writing two short films based on fairy-tales for the independent film company End of Sky Productions, and she is writing a novel for young adults for Disney Press

Disney Press

Disney Press is a department of The Walt Disney Company specifically used to produce books of various genres and for various age groups . Many of the books Disney Press produces are picture books based on Mickey Mouse and friends and other characters from many popular Disney animated features...

 based on the Wicked Queen from "Snow White

Snow White

"Snow White" is a fairy tale known from many countries in Europe, the best known version being the German one collected by the Brothers Grimm...

," entitled The Fairest of All, to be released on August 18, 2009.

External links

• Interview at comiXology with Serena Valentino