Zuzu Petal Press

Zuzu Petal Press Independent comic book publisher The covers to the Zombie Love comics are beautifully rendered by fantasy illustrator Daren Bader.

Starting in 1992, ZuZu Petal Press was created by friends Jeromy Cox and David Jolosky as an imprint to self publish Jeromy's creator owned comic book title Zombie Love. Daren, David and Jeromy all worked together in the film/animation industry. Zombie Love is a romantic horror comic book about a pumpkin headed character named Nathaniel that also happens to be a lord of a mysterious undead world.

To top his problems with being dead and having a pumpkin for a head, Nathaniel has romantic troubles to deal with as well. ZuZu Petal has additionally published, Offspring, Ace of Spades, Virtually Dead and Vampyrates.

Doing sketch covers at . Drawn and gone ."We could be heroes..." - Booth 1509
06/16/2023

Doing sketch covers at . Drawn and gone .

"We could be heroes..."

- Booth 1509

Here's the last page to Zombie Love # 5 (spoiler alert). People were just discussing the use of swear words in comics. ...
08/19/2021

Here's the last page to Zombie Love # 5 (spoiler alert). People were just discussing the use of swear words in comics. My take is that I like the idea of the reader filling in the obvious blank themselves. Then again, in a different story, swearing is fookin' gret.

Lotus Eaters - A page from issue 6 of Zombie Love.
08/04/2021

Lotus Eaters - A page from issue 6 of Zombie Love.

Here's a scan of the ZuZuPetal/Zombie Love trading card set we did. There was another promotional Offspring card produce...
06/04/2018

Here's a scan of the ZuZuPetal/Zombie Love trading card set we did. There was another promotional Offspring card produced that's not pictured here. I'm not even sure I have that one. We also did a higher rez version of card 4 of the set that had better line screen and better paper stock.

D&D - Davey and Daren, no two better friends a man could ever ask for.David Jolosky on Publication Design and Daren Bade...
05/27/2017

D&D - Davey and Daren, no two better friends a man could ever ask for.
David Jolosky on Publication Design and Daren Bader on Cover Art.

Page 3 from Zombie Love number 5.
04/09/2017

Page 3 from Zombie Love number 5.

A few ZuZu books...
02/21/2017

A few ZuZu books...

A dreamy panel from issue number 1 of
11/19/2016

A dreamy panel from issue number 1 of

Evil drawing from issue number 6 of
11/12/2016

Evil drawing from issue number 6 of

Breakdowns for a number 4 sequence. I ended up with generating more sketches than the scene called for, therefore a lo...
11/01/2016

Breakdowns for a number 4 sequence. I ended up with generating more sketches than the scene called for, therefore a lot of favorable drawings had to be left out.

Hero Illustrated number 9, number 9, number 9 from 1994. Cool review for and back in the day... and check out that a...
11/01/2016

Hero Illustrated number 9, number 9, number 9 from 1994. Cool review for and back in the day... and check out that amazing cover by Dale Keown and Paul Mounts.

A Union Tribune article/interview from 1993 by Neil Kendricks. Old School Pumpkin Publishing.
10/31/2016

A Union Tribune article/interview from 1993 by Neil Kendricks. Old School Pumpkin Publishing.

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