Shannon Denton Explained
| Birth Name: | Shannon Eric Denton |
| Area: | Artist |
Shannon Eric Denton is an American veteran storyteller and artist with credits at Cartoon Network, Warner Bros., Jerry Bruckheimer Films, NBC, Disney, Sony, ToyBiz, Marvel Entertainment, Fox Kids, Paramount Pictures, CBS, Dimension Films, DC Comics, Nickelodeon, LEGO, Riot Games, and Blizzard.
Biography
Denton is a veteran storyteller and artist with credits at Cartoon Network, Warner Bros., Riot Games, Showtime, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, NBC, Disney, Sony, LEGO, Marvel Entertainment, FoxKids, Paramount, CBS, Dimension Films, DC Comics, and Nickelodeon.
Denton was a storyboard artist on the Oscar-nominated feature and directed the original commercial animations for the movie. He has written for Cartoon Network, Warner Bros. Disney, and Marvel. He has directed for Hulu, Fox, FX, Netflix and co-directed a couch gag intro for The Simpsons. In video games he's worked as both an artist and a writer on games like God of War, NeoPets, Diablo, Overwatch, Warcraft, Hearthstone, League of Legends, Valorant and more. Shannon has also worked in live action on shows like Community, Con Man, Ally McBeal, Las Vegas, US of Tara and his projects have been featured in Entertainment Weekly and Publishers Weekly.
In 1992, Denton was an artist for Image Comic's Extreme Studios working with Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld. From 1995–1999 Denton contributed to the design and development of almost every animated action adventure show produced by the Fox Kids Network, including X-Men, Spider-Man and the Annie nominated Silver Surfer series, as well as doing comic work for DC Comics, Dark Horse, Image Comics and Marvel on titles ranging from Deadpool to Star Wars. Denton is featured in a section of the book Toon Art: The Graphic Art of Digital Cartooning and contributed to the cover art.
In 2000 Denton founded Komikwerks, an independent comic publishing entity with partner Patrick Coyle, which has partnered with AOL and comics legend Stan Lee. Komikwerks has also launched a new line of illustrated children's action books under the Actionopolis imprint. Denton and Actionopolis are represented by Circle of Confusion.
He has worked for publishers Tokyopop, Desperado Publishing, Boom, AiT/Planet Lar, IDW, Dynamite and Image Comics. Denton was also nominated for the 27th, 28th, and 29th Annual Comic Buyers Guide Fan Awards for Favorite Editor. Denton's book Grunts: War Stories was nominated for the 29th Annual Comic Buyers Guide Fan Awards for Favorite Graphic Novel. Denton worked on the Eisner & Harvey Nominated Outlaw Territory from Image Comics. Denton's book Graveslinger was nominated for a 2010 Harvey Award. Denton's co-creation, Fleshdigger, was picked as an entrant in Image Comics/TopCow's 2011 pilot season project and he was featured on MTV.
Denton won the 2011 Shel Dorf Award for editor of the year, and was again nominated in 2012. Shannon was also nominated for the 27th, 28th and 29th Annual ComicBuyersGuide Fan Awards for Favorite Editor.
Denton worked with Alan Tudyk, Nathan Fillion and PJ Haarsma on their sci-fi epic Spectrum (spinning out of the Lionsgate/ComicCon HQ Con Man series) and oversaw production of the comic and animation. Denton was a producer on season 2 of Con Man.
Denton co-founded TV/film development company Monster Forge Productions with 30 Days of Night co-creator Steve Niles. Monster Forge Productions is repped by APA. Monster Forge has collaborated with Marvel and Mondo on the sold-out Man-Thing vinyl figure. Monster Forge and Shannon Eric Denton are executive producers on Ice-T, NWA’s Arabian Prince & Tommy The Animator's animated series Tehk City. The series will feature the voice talent of the likes of Ice-T, his wife Coco, Snoop Dogg, Tracy Morgan, Busta Rhymes, Mike Epps, Treach, Arabian Prince, Peter Scanavino, Roxanne Shanté, Ben Baller, Styles P, Tone Trump, Emilio Rivera, Tommy The Animator and Shannon Eric Denton.
Bibliography
Comics work includes:
- Supreme #24 (pencils, with writer Gary Carlson, other pencils by Cedric Nocon and inks by Norm Rapmund, Image Comics, 1995)
- Deadpool #8–10, 12 (with writer Joe Kelly, other pencils by Ed McGuinness and inks by Norman Lee/Nathan Massengill, Marvel Comics, 1997–1998)
- Actionopolis #1 (with various artists, Antarctic Press, 2001)
- Common Foe (with co-author Keith Giffen and art by Jean-Jacques Dzialowski, Desperado Publishing, 2005–2006, tpb, 168 pages, December 2007,)
- Grunts (with co-author Keith Giffen and art by Matt Jacobs, Arcana Studios, 2006)
- "Aces" (with co-author G. Willow Wilson and art by Curtis Square-Briggs, in Negative Burn #7–10, Desperado Publishing, 2006–2007)
- Graveslinger (with co-author Jeff Mariotte and art by John Cboins and Nima Sorat, 4-issue mini-series, Image Comics, October 2007 – 2008)
- Gutwrencher (with co-authors Keith Giffen/Steve Niles and art by Anthony Hightower, 3-issue mini-series, Shadowline, 2008)
Writer
- Airwolf: Airstrikes (2015)
- Ash and the Army of Darkness (2013)
- Big Game (1999)
- Brother Bedlam (2006)
- Common Foe (2005)
- Country Ass-Whuppin': A Tornado Relief Anthology (2012)
- DC Holiday Special '09 (2010)
- Doc Savage (2013)
- DoubleFeature: Action (2011)
- Graveslinger (2007)
- Grunts (2006)
- Gutwrencher (2008)
- Heavy Metal (1977)
- Knight Rider (2013)
- Knight Rider: Knight Strikes (2015)
- Komikwerks (2003)
- Komikwerks Presents: Nuts and Bolts (2004)
- Komikwerks Presents: Rockets & Robots (2005)
- Komikwerks Presents: Thrills & Chills (2005)
- Lady Rawhide/Lady Zorro (2015)
- The Lone Ranger (2012)
- Negative Burn (2005)
- Ninja High School (1986)
- Notti & Nyce (2013)
- Outlaw Territory (2009)
- Pilot Season: Fleshdigger (2011)
- The Revenant (2009)
- Shannon Denton's Actionopolis (2001)
- The Spider (2012)
- Tabula Rasa (2006)
- Tales from a Forgotten Planet (2006)
- Vampirella (2010)
- Vampirella Halloween Special 2013 (2013)
- The X-Files Annual (2014)
- Zapt! (2006)
Penciller
- The All New Exiles (1995)
- Big Bang Comics (1996)
- Big Game (1999)
- Deadpool (1997)
- Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Comics Magazine (2001)
- Hero Squared (2005)
- Komikwerks (2003)
- Komikwerks Presents: Nuts and Bolts (2004)
- Komikwerks Presents: Thrills & Chills (2005)
- Marvel Heroes (2010)
- Marvel Mega (1997)
- The Mystery of the Roanoke Colony (2007)
- Outlaw Territory (2009)
- Prophet (1995)
- The Sakai Project: Artists Celebrate Thirty Years of Usagi Yojimbo (2014)
- Scratch9 (2010)
- Scratch9: Cat Tails (2013)
- Shannon Denton's Actionopolis (2001)
- Spawn (1992)
- Supreme (1992)
- Violator (1999)
- Guinness World Record Attempt (2014)
Inker
- Big Bang Comics (1996)
- Big Game (1999)
- Dark Horse Presents (1986)
- Deadpool (1997)
- Heavy Metal (1977)
- Hero Squared (2005)
- Komikwerks (2003)
- Komikwerks Presents: Nuts and Bolts (2004)
- Komikwerks Presents: Thrills & Chills (2005)
- The Mystery of the Roanoke Colony (2007)
- Outlaw Territory (2009)
- Scratch9: Cat Tails (2013)
- Shannon Denton's Actionopolis (2001)
- Star Wars: Luke Skywalker – The Last Hope for the Galaxy (2008)
Colorist
- Big Game (1999)
- Outlaw Territory (2009)
- Scratch9: Cat Tails (2013)
- Shannon Denton's Actionopolis (2001)
Letterer
- Komikwerks (2003)
- Komikwerks Presents: Thrills & Chills (2005)
- Stan Lee's Alexa (2005)
Editor
- Airwolf: Airstrikes (2015)
- Andre the Giant: Closer to Heaven (2015)
- The Authority (2008)
- The Authority: Prime (2007)
- Chavo Guerrero's Warrior's Creed (2016)
- Chuck (2008)
- Free Realms (2009)
- Garrison (2010)
- Gears Of War (2008)
- Gen13 (2006)
- Ides of Blood (2010)
- Knight Rider (2013)
- Knight Rider: Knight Strikes (2015)
- Miami Vice Remix (2015)
- Night Trap (2013)
- Night Trap (2016)
- Prototype (2009)
- Rampage Jackson: Street Soldier (2015)
- Resident Evil (2009)
- Spectrum (2016)
- Stormwatch: P.H.D. (2007)
- Tom Strong and the Robots of Doom (2010)
- Wetworks: Mutations (2010)
- WildCats (2008)
- Wolf Moon (2014)
- The X-Files (2008)
- The X-Files/30 Days of Night (2010)
Cover artist
- Dark Horse Presents (1986)
- Komikwerks Presents: Rockets & Robots (2005)
- Komikwerks Presents: Thrills & Chills (2005)
- The Mystery of the Roanoke Colony (2007)
- Shannon Denton's Actionopolis (2001)
- Deadpool
Screenwriting
Animation
- X-Men: The Animated Series
- Detention
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Jimmy Neutron
- Danny Phantom
- Teen Titans
- Silver Surfer
- Justice League
- Avengers
- Spider-Man
- Ally McBeal
- Las Vegas
- Con Man
- American Dad!
- United States of Tara
- Dan Dare
- He-Man
- G.I. Joe
- Community
- Stillwater
- Samurai Rabbit
- The Simpsons
- Crossing Swords
- Army of the Dead
- Batman
- Scooby Doo
- Corn & Peg
- The Life and Times of Juniper Lee
Video games
- Final Fantasy VII
- League Of Legends
- Wild Rift
- Legends of Runeterra
- Valorant
- God Of War
- Kingdoms of Amalur
- Neo-Pets
- Overwatch
- Diablo
- Hearthstone
- Warcraft
- StarCraft
Toys
Toy company work includes:
