Henry Barajas, the creator of the Image Comics/ Top Cow La Voz De M.A.Y.O graphic novel, has launched a Kickstarter for a new Latinx graphic novel, Helm Greycastle, on Monday, November 9th This Latinx fantasy is rooted in real Mesoamerican history with a twist: what if the Aztecs and Mayans stopped the Spanish invasion of[...]
A Man Among Ye #3 continues the Image Comics/Top Cow-published historical-fiction pirate comic by writer Stephanie Phillips, artist Craig Cermak, colorist John Kalisz, and letterer Troy Peteri The first two issues blended fact and thrilling fiction in this gripping tale of Anne Bonny, Calico Jack Rackham, and Mary Read Can this third issue of A Man Among Ye keep up this[...]
This new series from Top Cow, as the first issue's letter from writer Stephanie Phillips, explains, lives "on the edge of fact and fiction." But does Anne Bonny work as a comics anti-hero?[caption id="attachment_1255995" align="aligncenter" width="600"] A Man Among Ye #1 cover Credit: Top Cow[/caption]The first two issues of A Man Among Ye see Stephanie Phillips constantly[...]
Credit: Top Cow[/caption]There's a big turn in Creative Destruction, where Loren struggles with a depressive episode by virtue of having a hand in killing someone just like him while the victim was laid up in a hospital Add to that the fact that Loren's CIA field agent girlfriend isn't around, and Creative Destruction ends on[...]
Just three years before Top Cow's debut of Sara Pezzini in the Witchblade franchise, Todd McFarlane, Jim Lee, Rob Liefield, Marc Silvestri, Erik Larsen, and Whilce Portacio separated from the comic industry conglomerates Marvel and DC and formed Image Comics.[caption id="attachment_1245070" align="aligncenter" width="600"] A cover of Witchblade #1 Credit: Top Cow[/caption]Although the two newly formed[...]
Top Cow has reinvented themselves in recent years with indie creator-owned hits, such as Stjepan Šejić's wildly popular erotic romance Sunstone, as well as Postal, the crime thriller that put Batman and the Outsiders' Bryan Edward Hill and Under the Moon: A Catwoman Tale's Isaac Goodhart on the map The Image imprint has not forgotten its roots, though[...]
Šejić followed up this move by announcing exactly how long Sunstone, his most popular series and Top Cow's highest ordered title of all time, will last.[caption id="attachment_1234732" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Sunstone promo art Credit: Stjepan Šejić's Twitter.[/caption]Stjepan Šejić tweeted:if you never read sunstone, here is all 6 volumes of it so far in pdf format[...]
Which for all intents and purposes looks like the kind of comic book that Top Cow just isn't publishing anymore.The series is as "an original series set in a dystopian world where special abilities run wild Metalshade is a lethal strike team of exotic, weirdly-powered antiheroes Their reckless, anarchistic nature is balanced only by the[...]
(Top Cow/Image Comics, creative team: Matt Hawkins, Colleen Doran, Bryan Valenza, Troy Peteri)The sneaky thing about this work -- and some other near future science fiction cautionary tales from writer Matt Hawkins, like Wildfire, -- is that this is actually a horror story Instead of jump scares and bloody blades wielded by relentless psychopaths, the[...]
Veterans' Day is on Monday in the United States, but Top Cow is getting a head start on thanking veterans for their service with a new Kickstarter for a comic book anthology called Soldier Stories: Veteranthology.With a portion of profits going to the United States Veterans' Artists Alliance, the Veteranthology will be edited by Ken[...]
The Clock #1 by Matt Hawkins and Colleen Doran, for January 2020, from Top Cow/Image Comics.
CLOCK #1
(W) Matt Hawkins (A/CA) Colleen Doran
MINISERIES PREMIEREWithin three weeks, hundreds of millions of healthy people worldwide contract various forms of aggressive cancer, and the proliferation, seemingly a viral outbreak, stumps the best scientific minds available But after a leading[...]
Back in 2016, Top Cow Publisher and President Matt Hawkins posted;
What would happen if people started dying around the world in record numbers from cancer? It appears to be spreading like a virus and it’s fast By the time it’s diagnosed it’s too late… An eugenics conspiracy thriller about overpopulation, scarce resources and survival as[...]
He assembled a panel of comic creators who now deal regularly with Hollywood to give tips on how to prepare for dealing with Hollywood.[caption id="attachment_1100186" align="alignnone" width="2000"] Photo by Adi Tantimedh[/caption]The panelists were:Matt Hawkins, comics writer, screenwriter and the head of Top Cow He has sold dozens of properties to Hollywood, and got paid to[...]
He assembled a panel of comics creators who have regular dealings with Hollywood to give advice.They were:Matt Hawkins, comics writer, screenwriter and the head of Top Cow He has sold dozens of properties to Hollywood, and got paid to write dozens of hours of scripts.Jeff Gomez, of Starlight Runner, writer and consultant[...]
WEBTOON boasts partnerships with Legendary, Lucasfilm, POW!, Top Cow/Image, and more WEBTOON takes the comic experience to the next level by providing readers with daily curated content and giving creators an intuitive platform designed to help them easily publish and publicize their own original comics WEBTOON creators have been nominated for multiple Eisner Awards –[...]
Legendary, Lucasfilm, POW!, Top Cow/Image, and others have partnered with the service Creators have been nominated for multiple Eisner Awards – three in 2019; as well as winning several Ringo Awards – seven in 2018. WEBTOON, the world’s most successful webcomics publisher – and comics publisher in general – has released their first animated series:[...]
Paradox Girl is a superheroine whose power is time travel. She has done it so many times in her own timeline that she doesn't even have a beginning or end any more. There are so many of her past and future selves littered about that they're tripping over each other. She causes as much trouble […]
The swell folks over at Top Cow are selling digital comics at a massive bargain through Humble Bundle with the goal of raising money for victims of the California Wildfires, as well as two other charities (which the user can choose when purchasing the bundle) A press release provides more details on The Darkness Sci-Fi[...]
Partnering with indie studio Sony Pictures TV and led by Rick Jacobs (Dirk Gentl), Skybound Galactic will create and develop projects financed by Sony, with the studio selling series' rights on the international market.For their first two announced projects, Skybound Galactic isn't wandering too far from Kirkman's Image Comics home with his Thief of Thieves comic being adapted[...]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Martin Carver, a tech billionaire, is trying to use a terrorist attack to sell the idea of a privatized police force to the mayor of Los Angeles. The mayor isn't willing to acquiesce, and Carver and his bodyguard, Hui-Men, leave. On the way to the car, a large armored assassin tries to kill […]