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Christina Z is an American comics writer known for being the first woman to break onto the Wizard magazine Top 10 list of top-selling writers. She achieved this status for her work on the Image Comics title Witchblade. She wrote and laid the foundation of the first 39 issues of the Witchblade series.(November 19, 2009), " Top Cow's Top Cow on WITCHBLADE: Silvestri Talks Flagship," Newsarama. Retrieved March 9, 2018 In 2008, she made news by taking the writing duties for Virgin Comics Shadow Hunter that featured adult film star Jenna Jameson. She has also been a music journalist on and off over the course of 20 years.
A split anthology series titled Shadowplay by IDW Publishing was one of the first R-rated comics that was written by Christina Z and illustrated by UK artist Ashley Wood. The theme of the book covered extreme BDSM themes and body modification.
A relaunch of the Tigra character initially created in 1972 was given a trademark intimate series by Christina Z for Marvel Comics by portraying the character in a vulnerable yet powerful perspective. It was pencilled by Mike Deodato Jr. and edited by Tom Brevoort. As a natural progression, Christina Z took her first child-friendly project by penning the Powerpuff Girls comics for DC Comics.
Acclaim Comics held the license for Master Darque and was relaunched as Darque Passages with Christina Z as the writer and Hellblazer artist Leonardo Manco. Under the editing team of Fabian Nicieza and Jeff Gomez, the relaunch consisted of a pre-release ashcan copy and was considered a great success that led the publishing company to relaunch their cadre of other historic characters.
Due to the success of the video game BloodRayne, Echo 3 Worldwide contacted Christina Z to launch the Bloodrayne series. It tells the violent story of a Dhampir, half human, half vampire. Artistic duties were handled by illustrator Kody Chamberlain of vampire series 30 Days of Night fame.
Progressing into self-produced comics, comic book and Blizzard video game artist Trent Kaniuga and Christina Z collaborated in creating a relaunch of his creator-owned CreeD called Utopiate under the imprint of Image Comics. The book was painted by Kaniuga with the graphic design, writing and lettering done by Christina Z.
In 2008, business magnate Richard Branson hopped into the comics world with Shadow Hunter, a comic book with the combination of adult film star Jenna Jameson as the main character and Christina Z as the writer in a supernatural series. While controversy and complications would occur, the series was published. A press conference was called in New York on behalf of the company and moderated by comic book inker and creator, Jimmy Palmiotti. Christina Z did not attend.
Christina Z worked with several electronic music and industrial music record labels, interviewing artists and reviewing music. Her writing has been featured in magazines such as Urb, Rolling Stone, Alternative Press, Fix, Club Life, Exit and others.
In 2019, Christina Z teamed up with prolific Belgian composer Jean-Marc Lederman on a double CD hardcover photo book and ghost story anthology called 13 Ghost Stories. It features Beborn Beton staff Stefan Netschio, Bruderschaft staff Rexx Arkana, Cassandra Complex originator Rodney Orpheus and others. The art was created by visual artist Erica Hinyot.
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