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A Voice In The Dark Creator In Need…
There is a book out right now form Top Cow called A Voice In The Dark It's a pretty cool series getting a lot of good reviews The creator of the series is Larime Taylor, a disabled artist who writes and draws the series while his disabled wife Sylv paints the covers. Taylor and his wife need[...]
Buy Top Cow's Think Tank: Fun With PTSD And Help A Charity
On stands this Wednesday is Think Tank: Fun With PTSD #1 from Top Cow The book is an over-sized flip book with the other side debuting a new series called WildFire The important thing to note here is that for every copy of the book sold, $0.25 will be donated to the Wounded Warriors Project[...]
BC Exclusive – Marc Silvestri Returns To Interiors
It was unannounced when Rise Of The Magi #1 was solicited, but we have learned that Marc Silvestri drew half of the interior pages on the book. Rise of the Magi #0 was the Free Comic Book Day offering from Top Cow this year (read it here if you missed it) Silvestri provided the cover and wrote[...]
Rise Of The Magi #0 – Read It Here If You Missed It Yesterday
Here is the FCBD offering from Top Cow This is the new series Rise Of The Magi written by Marc Silvestri and art by Sumeyye Kesgin. Marc recently wrote on his facebook page: Sometimes an artist comes along and simply knocks you out of your chair I Just got some new 'Rise Of The Magi' pages in[...]
Top Cow 2013 Talent Hunt Winners
Top Cow has graciously allowed us to announce the winners of their 2013 talent hunt The winners will work on upcoming issues of the Top Cow series Artifacts Four unpublished writers and four unpublished artists were chosen Along with the winners there were ten runner-up writers and ten runner-up artists that will be doing short[...]
More Swag! Wondercon Edition
Here's Boom!, Archaia, Dark Horse, Valiant, Lions Forge, and indie (Love Machines) and a little print by Top Cow as well That's all pretty glorious but I might have to get that Wondercon Catbug plush after all It's just so cute I can't help it. Lots of publishers represented here and some fine comics creators[...]
Bleeding Cool's At Wondercon!
Look out for our trusty writers Dan Wickline, Joshua Stone, Michele Brittany, Jesse Criscone, and Bill Watters in panels and on the hunt for stories… There's a good representation of publishers here at Wondercon this year, including: Dark Horse, DC Comics, Top Cow, IDW, Boom! and more on the floor, with Marvel also running a few[...]
Matt Hawkins, On How To Pitch Him (And Anyone Else) A Comic Book
Matt Hawkins, editor-in-chief of Image Comics studio,Top Cow and writer of Think Tank, has some wisdom to impart…. Some pitching advice: 1) understand that no one will be that excited to read your pitch This is because we read so many bad ones that the expectation is that it won't be good If we're excited after we[...]
Top Cow Covers It – Part Two
Here is the second part of the Top Cow covers we got this weekend This time we get to see some form Tales Of Honor, Witchblade and the new series Wildfire. The Marc Silvestri and Michael Turner covers are for upcoming Witchblade trades. Here[...]
Top Cow Covers It – Part One
Got an email from Matt Hawkins of Top Cow offering us the covers for what looks to be the next two months of books at least Well, I love good art so I figure we'd run all the covers over this weekend in two parts. Here we have Aphrodite IX, Artifacts (I wrote that one), A Voice[...]
Artifacts #36 Preview With Something Extra/Exclusive
So this Wednesday the latest chapter of Top Cow's comic Artifacts comes out It follows the story of ex-priest Tom Judge who uses one of the 13 artifacts called The Rapture His partner, Tilly is a "numeromancer" or "mathmagician" and it's her talents that lead to former Witchblade bearer/former Angelus Detective Danielle Baptiste calling them[...]
The Ninth Generation To Launch From Top Cow In The Fall
At ECCC, Top Cow's Matt Hawkins has announced a new comic, The Ninth Generation, a new series that will tie in together the original Aphrodite IX series, the recent version, and will crossover with the Aphrodite IX books and with Cyber Force And will also deal woith why the original book has a Greek name[...]
Top Cow Heads For Emerald City Comic Con
Emerald City Comic Con is this weekend and Top Cow is heading up there with a few creators and some exclusive covers Think Tank and Aphrodite IX writer Matt Hawkins will be joined by the creative team of William Harms and Edward Pun of the soon to be release Shotgun Wedding will be on hand[...]
Top Cow Talks Art On Ovation TV Tomorrow Night
Top Cow Managing Editor/Colorist Betsy Gonia and Publisher/Writer Matt Hawkins are both on "The Art Of" Sunday night on Ovation TV  It airs at 7:30PM ET and 4:30 PT and is a half hour show focusing on the discussion of creating comics with the two of them. Here is a trailer for the episode: [youtube]http://youtu.be/B_KZZlTSREk[/youtube] [...]
The Killing Game Continues – Preview Of Voice In The Dark #5
On Wednesday Voice In The Dark #5 hits the stands from Top Cow and creator Larime Taylor and we've got a preview of the first six pages. "KILLING GAME," Part Three With the fallout of the sorority party piling up all around her, will Zoey finally give in to her urges and start planning for murder? Written and[...]
Ales Kot Continues To Excavate The Darkness' Past
We just saw the publication of The Darkness: Vicious Traditions by Ales Kot and Dean Ormston, looking at Top Cow's The Darkness entity in the times of the Romans. This is clearly going to be a thing now. In June, we'll see Ales Kot and Maro Oleksicki giving us The Darkness: Close Your Eyes which will be[...]
Matt Hawkins And Linda Sejic's Wildfire, Coming To A Fridge Near You In June
Matt Hawkins and Linda Sejic are creating a new comic for Image/Top Cow in June, Wildfire, a sci-fi tale of genetically modified food. Dan Miller is a plant biologist working with a small team perfecting an accelerated plant growth process When things start to go wrong, Los Angeles finds itself careening toward unforeseen disaster. But Hawkins doesn't[...]
Out This Week – Witchblade 173
The fine folks at Top Cow were nice enough to send us over a preview. Even without the Witchblade secured to her wrist, Sara Pezzini cannot escape the corrupting influence of the gauntlet. Part four of the Borne Again storyline hits stores this week in Witchblade #173 written by Ron[...]
Want To Know More About Honor Harrington? There's A Website For That…
The twenty plus year science fiction novel series is branching out in new directions including a video game, a feature film and of course the new comic series launched by Top Cow. And here's a quick set-up for the series: In the year 2103, a colony ship left Old Earth with the mission of interstellar colonization, launching[...]
Grilled By The RCN – Matt Hawkins Talks Tales Of Honor
So when I heard that David Weber's Honor Harrington books were being adapted by Top Cow I had a feeling I'd be asked to work up an interview for the site But I've not read the books and knew I could not get enough of the universe… or Honorverse as they call it… in my[...]
What The Hell Is With The Numbers? A Super Early Preview Of Aphrodite IX
The guys at Top Cow offered us a "super early preview" of Aphrodite IX #9; we said "yes" In the latest issue due out March 19th, we finally learn what the heck is up with the numbering system And we learn quite a bit about Aphrodite IX's past… and future. The issue is written by Matt Hawkins,[...]
That Took You How Long? A Quick Spitpaint From Stjepan Sejic
Sejic is known for his work on Top Cow books like Witchblade, Artifacts and Aphrodite IX He also does a lot of personal stuff he posts on his deviant art page Well, he posted the above image that he called a spitpaint and an accompanying video that shows the entire piece being done… but sped[...]
Preview Of Artifacts #35 By Top Cow's 2012 Talent Contest Winner
Here we've got a first look at Artifacts #35 by one of Top Cow's 2012 Talent Contest Winners, Hannibal Tabu Art and cover for this issue was done by Nelson Blake II and with later pages by Michael Avon Oeming The book will hit the shelves on Wednesday Feb 26th. Mercenary Michael Finnegan just can't catch a break[...]
Preview of Think Tank #12 – The End Of Season One
We told you back in November that the Top Cow series about a super genius taking on the government he works for was going to come to an end and then relaunch this summer Well, for Think Tank season 1… this is the end Matt Hawkins and Rashan Ekedal wrap up both the first year and the[...]
Top Cow Talent Search Gets Over 600 Entries
The annual Top Cow Talent Search just passed its entry deadline and I got a quick moment to talk with Matt Hawkins writer and CEO/Publisher of Top Cow about the process, the purpose and the sheer volume of material that came in. BC: Let's start off with the obvious first question, why? Why do you do a talent[...]
Top Cow Teases – Cyber Force And Aphrodite IX
Top Cow has sent us some teaser for two of their upcoming releases First up is Cyber Force #8 due out 1/29/2014 by Marc Silvestri and Marco Turini The we have Aphrodite IX #8 by Matt Hawkins and Stjepan Sejic due out 2/5/2014.   Top Cow has[...]