marc silvestri Archives

Three From Top Cow – Rise of the Magi, Death Vigil And Genius
named Destiny? And what if she decides to secede three blocks of the 'Hood from the Union? Who is going to take it back from her and her army of gangbangers? Who CAN? Rise Of The Magi #3 Story by Marc Silvestri Art by Sumeyye Kesgin The wall between the world of[...]
Top Cow's Exclusive And VIP Deals For San Diego Comic-Con (UPDATE)
1 -Pack of Artifacts Trading Cards (Gold Edition) -Top Cow Hat -Top Cow Bible Next is the Marc Silvestri Sketch Package, limited to 40 total (10 per day starting Thursday at 10 AM) This package contain: -Sketch Ticket, good for one original sketch by Marc himself (Note: your sketch must be done on the day you make your purchase) -Rise of the Magi #1[...]
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
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 from Sumeyye Kesgin and that's pretty much what happened. At Wondercon[...]
FCBD Los Angeles – A New Editor And Publisher's Take
Yep, shameless plugs will follow. Ryan Liebowitz, owner of Golden Apple, has assembled an amazing lineup of creators who will be signing during FCBD: * Marc Silvestri, the legendary Top Cow / Image artist & Rise of the Magi creator! * Scott Shaw, the fan favorite Simpsons artist & cartoonist! * Omar Spahi, the writer of OSSM Comics's THANIEL (and my boss)! * And[...]
Friday Morning Runaround – Hot McFarlane-On-Silvestri Action
MCFARLANE PICKS UP A PEN Marc Silvestri and Todd McFarlane's variant cover for Skybound's Manifest Destiny. SPIDER-FAN Author of the UK Comic Book Babylon book (and Bleeding Cool alumni) Tim Pilcher talks Amazing Spider-Man 2 on Business Week. COMIXOLOCAUST Shaun Huston asks, what happens to your digital comics when your provider goes away? Like many of the users I saw on[...]
Top Cow Covers It – Part Two
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 is the second part of the Top Cow covers we got this weekend This[...]
Silvestri And McFarlane Show Off Cover For Kirkman
Marc Silvestri provided the loose pencils and then Todd McFarlane inked the piece McFarlane shared both the pencils and inks along with some commentary on his facebook page: HERE'S THE FINISHED ARTWORK FOR A COMIC COVER! A few posts back I showed you the start of me inking a rough pencilled cover done by artist ace Marc Silvestri[...]
Could We See The Return Of Deathmate?
A series of prestige format books pitted Valiant characters against those created by Rob Liefeld, Marc Silvestri and Jim Lee The Image side was heavily delayed and orders in the several hundred thousand level were suddenly no longer wanted by an industry suffering instant contraction and many stores were buried under the high priced copies[...]
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[...]
When Chris Crainey Went Extreme Fanboy Over Marc Silvestri
With the range of talented artists and writers working on this attempt, it was only a matter of time before someone was seated next to their idol. That's what happened when Marc Silvestri sat next to Chris. There are even cameos by Bridget Silvestri and Paul Jenkins. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPV87VqQC48[/youtube] [...]
The Amazing Arizona Con – A Growing Convention With Ideas
It was a well organized show that had the honor of debuting the Image Revolution movie as well as having Marc Silvestri, Rob Liefeld and Robert Kirkman in attendance It also had a few publishers like Aspen, Boom and Zenescope. This was my first time attending this show though I'm a regular at the Phoenix Comic[...]
Top Cow Teases – Cyber Force And Aphrodite IX
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 sent us some teaser for two of their upcoming releases First up is[...]
Marc Silvestri Draws The Magi In High Res
Rob Liefeld called Marc Silvestri the best artist out of all the Image founders in the Image Revolution documentary. Here's where you see why Clicky for biggy. That's the cover to Rise Of The Magi #1, out in May, from Image/Top Cow, after the Free Comic Book Day #0 issue… Marc is writing the book, with interior art[...]
Looking For A Gift For That Original Art Collector Or Marc Silvestri Fan?
With the holidays approaching, there are just some people on our list that are difficult to buy for… if you have one of those who happens to love original comic book art… and your pockets are pretty deep… then this might be the thing for you. Marc Silvestri, co-founder of Image Comics, founder of Top Cow,[...]
Late Night Teaser – Cyberforce By Silvestri
Over on his Facebook page comic artist and Image co-founder Marc Silvestri posted a tease for Cyberforce #10 from Top Cow. Here's why I love Sunny Gho Check out this utterly mind-crushing coloring job he did over my pen and ink cover Oh, and he's not even done yet…Cyber Force #10… CRUSHHHH! So here is the color version 'work in[...]
A New Cover For 1602's Tenth Birthday And Other Amazon Fish
or Angela. Handy to have when there's a certain Age Of Ultron #10 selling rather well. In other Amazon fishing, we noted that Top Cow is to collect its comics written by Robert Kirkman and Marc Silvestri as Pilot Season 2009: Kirkman/Silvestri, collating Murderer, Demonic, Stealth, Stellar, and Hardcore And also getting collected is Paul Pope with[...]
BC Mag #1: Cyber Force For Free
They decided to launch a campaign to bring back Marc Silvestri's Cyber Force in a way that makes the old Coke or Pepsi taste tests pale in comparison Through a Kickstarter campaign, they were able to raise over $100,000 to develop, print, and give away the first five issues of the new series to fans[...]
Free Cyber Force #1 Arrives Today
  Twenty years after their initial debut, Marc Silverstri's Cyber Force relaunches today for free. Using Kickstarter, Top Cow raised over $100,000 to
Marc Silvestri Interview on Cyber Force
I had the opportunity to conduct an interview with Top Cow chief and artist extraordinaire, Marc Silvestri, about the new Cyber Force series kicking off this year… completely free for the first five full-size issues Here's his video of the Kickstarter program alongside Matt Hawkins, Top Cow President and co-writer on the new series[...]
The Missing Cyber Force Information That Enraged Retailers (UPDATE)
As we reported previously, a bunch of retailers have expressed concern over the free Cyber Force relaunch, funded by Kickstarter and intended to be given away both digitally and in print – with the print version getting two extra pages by Marc Silvestri. And retailers have been concerned. Tonight, it seems the penny dropped as to why[...]
Cyber Force Kickstarter Is A Go
As Bleeding Cool revealed the print version will have extra pages by Cyber Force's creator and Image Comics founder Marc Silvestri. I also understand that Top Cow will torrent the digital version themselves as CBR files, pointing people to pick up the free print version in comic stores. This is the most high profile comic book publisher[...]
Marc Silvestri To Add To The Free Print Cyber Force Relaunch
I learned a few things I could use… and a few I couldn't. One thing I learned was in the Kickstarter-funded free Cyber Force comic, there will be a two page story drawn by Marc Silvestri not available in the free digital version And that the digital version will also be uploaded to torrent and download[...]
Top Cow Brings Back Cyber Force With Kickstarter – For Free
It was one of the original Image Comics, the technologically enhanced superhero team by Marc Silvestri that would also form the centre point for Top Cow Studios Now Cyber Force returning from Image… via the crowdsourcing site Kickstarter. This is the highest profile American comics industry project to be funded by crowdsourcing though, as Bleeding Cool[...]
Walking Dead #100 Covers By McFarlane, Phillips And Ottley Sell Out
But Image Comics and Skybound didn't plan for this quite so soon. There are still amounts of the other covers, by Charlie Adlard, Marc Silvestri, Frank Quitely and Bryan Hitch available for reorders. For now. Man, this thing is a monster. Bleeding Cool understands that three of the eight traditionally distributed covers for The Walking Dead #100[...]