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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[...]

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 Cyber Force #8 due out 1/29/2014 by Marc Silvestri and Marco Turini [...]

The sci-fi hit series is written by Matt Hawkins with interiors by Sejic. Top Cow sent over an exclusive first look at the cover for Aphrodite IX #11 by Stjepan Sejic This will be out in May and hasn't even been solicited yet So you are getting to see it way early The sci-fi hit[...]

Matt Hawkins and Stjepan Sejic are really starting to hit their stride on this series as Aphrodite IX comes across upgraded models of herself… leaving her to wonder if she is obsolete.   Aphrodite IX #7 hits the shelves tomorrow and if you are looking for classic sci-fi excitement, then pic this[...]

Matt Hawkins is a great teacher, on top of being a great writer, and I highly recommend you pick up the books Top Cow puts out. While resting, my friend, Omar Spahi (creator of Xenoglyphs) came to me, offering me an editing and marketing job to keep a roof over my head while bouncing back into[...]

The series by Matt Hawkins and Rahsan Ekedal will be concluding it's initial black & white run with next month's issue twelve only to be relaunched during the summer in full color.   This week we'll see issue #11 of Top Cow's Think Tank hit stores and we've got a few preview[...]

A few months back I ran into Matt Hawkins, CEO of Top Cow, at a small convention in Ventura, California He told me that the publisher had been changing its focus to more science fiction storylines At that point it had been a while since I had read anything from Top Cow, since before the[...]

The only knock against it I could find anywhere on the web is that the interiors are black and white. The creators are Matt Hawkins, a twenty-year industry vet and the President and COO of Top Cow, and Rahsan Ekedal, a Harvey nominated artist The book is Think Tank published by Minotaur Press/Top Cow and listening[...]

You ever see a cover of a comic and realize it looks a lot like another cover… and another cover… and yet still another cover… Matt Hawkins shot this over, it was a joke Stjepan Sejic did for issue 170 of Witchblade that goes on sale tomorrow Matt wanted to share it with us.   And the[...]

When I reported on JH Williams III’s panel at San Diego Comic Con this past summer, replete with mind-bending artwork from his numerous projects from

  This is the cover to Think Tank #13 by Rahsan Ekedal. He shares his process, and reference for colour, in this email to Top Cow. Hi guys, here are

Where is it? At the Ventura County Fairgrounds from 10 to 8 on Saturday (Sept 7th) and 10 to 7 on Sunday (Sept 8th). I will be there promoting the books I write and trying to find more stories for Bleeding Cool… other guests include: Amber Benson, Sid Haig, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Howard Chaykin, Scott Lobdell, Matt[...]

From Matt Hawkins, Rahsan Ekedal and Image/Top Cow Comics. FIELD TEST,' Part One Dr David Loren used to worry about the deadly consequences of his creations from the safety of his laboratory? but now he's been deployed to Taiwan to oversee a field test gone awry Will having the mysterious SEAL Team 6 as his bodyguards[...]

Matt Hawkins also announced a new comic at the Top Cow Panel, Control The Clock with Colleen Doran about a world with a exponential rising population There's also Wildfire by Hawkins and Linda Sejic about eugenics. And Team Witchblade, an alternative universe story where a sixteen year old kid gets a Darkness heritage early, is hunted by[...]

Matt Hawkins is writing a series of comics and graphic novels based on the David Weber Honor Harrington sci-fi military novels, as Tales Of Honor, in conjunction with a movie studio, and a number of Korean artists for a full painted look This is Matt Hawkins' first work-for-hire project and it will be launched monthly[...]

In April, copies of non-slabbed copies of Think Tank #1 from Top Cow were getting up to $25 on eBay. Now they've softened to $20 or less. Expect them to

This is the surprise 1:4 cosplay variant cover dropping on Think Tank #5 from Top Cow/Image Comics, written by Matt Hawkins That's him dressing up on the cover, in a wig I'm not sure whish is Matt, I hope you can work it out. And here's a glimpse of the rest of the issue… [...]

The trade paperback of Matt Hawkins and Rahsan Ekedal's Think Tank is published this week. Which means we get to show off the first issue For free I rather liked this when I first read it… why not join me? For free I can't think of a reason not to… The trade paperback of Matt Hawkins[...]

Bleeding Cool Magazine article by James Kuhoric. This summer, Top Cow did something somewhat revolutionary for one of the top comic publishers. They

Ryan Klingman talks to Top Cow President/COO Matt Hawkins about his current Top Cow mini-series Think Tank: Matt Hawkins is not and has never been in the military, but if you picked up an issue of Think Tank you might guess the opposite Debuting in August from Image and Top Cow, Think Tank is filled with[...]

Here's his video of the Kickstarter program alongside Matt Hawkins, Top Cow President and co-writer on the new series Below that, you'll find an insightful little Q&A that sheds some light on the new direction for one of the Image cornerstone titles. Cyber Force has been on hiatus for a little while Why did the series[...]

When I first read Think Tank #1 by Matt Hawkins and Rahsan Ekedal from Top Cow a few months ago, I wrote; It's going to be solicited as a four issue series That's clearly not long enough, if handled right this could easily be another Chew or Transmetropolitan. Well it looks like I've got my wish[...]

Writer Matt Hawkins does his best to flirt with genre tropes without getting consumed by them, going so far as to explicitly describing the hard-ass heavy Colonel Mark Harrison as "a nice enough guy in reality, but he's here to kick my ass." Hawkins doesn't want you to think he's just setting up one-dimensional villains[...]

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

In August we get the next one, from Top Cow's Matt Hawkins and Rahsan Ekedal, Think Tank. And it's hard not get the original Manhattan Project fear from this comic A research scientist given the revelation that the work is being used to kill, kill and kill again An allegation that can be handed to anyone[...]