Top Cow Panel: Darkness 25th Anniversary: It has been 25 years since Top Cow Productions unleashed the medium’s most prolific, anti-hero indie franchises in the modern age at comic book stores worldwide: The Darkness. Don’t miss Top Cow legends Marc Silvestri (founder, CEO) and Matt Hawkins (president, COO), along with Marguerite Bennett (writer, Witchblade) and…
The Clock #1 Makes Cancer Even Scarier
As if cancer weren’t bad enough, Matt Hawkins’ The Clock #1 turns the disease into a weapon that will bring about a global pandemic if scientists can’t find a cure.
Matt Hawkins and Colleen Doran’s The Clock is Ticking
It’s almost impossible to meet a person whose life has not been touched by cancer in some way, taking family, friends, or our own lives from us. For Matt Hawkins, creator of The Clock, that touch was his own mother who was diagnosed when he was only 17. At that time, she was given only…
Swing Volume 2 Is More Hit Than Miss
Swing Volume 2 Matt Hawkins (writer), Jenni Cheung (writer), Yishan Li (artist), Troy Peteri (letterer), Linda Sejic (artist) Top Cow Productions September 18, 2019 Dan and Cathy are a couple approaching 40. They are still very much in love, and though there are some glitches in their career path, they are fairly successful. They have…
PUBWATCH: How Now Top Cow! October
What’s New In my first Top Cow Pubwatch, I talked about Eclipse getting picked up for television. Now, Robert Kirkman’s Skybound Entertainment is grabbing several other Image titles, including Top Cow’s The Darkness and Think Tank, which will be executive produced by Top Cow’s founder, Marc Silvestri, and president, Matt Hawkins. While the show is…
PUBWATCH: How Now Top Cow! September
Welcome to Top Cow Pubwatch volume 2. I’ve been busy reading up on all of Top Cow’s offerings since my last Pubwatch and I can’t express enough how much I am loving the variety of stories they have to offer, from super heroes to romance and so much more. At WWAC, we’ve been busy with…
Tenuously Building to Something Satisfying: Swing #1
Swing #1 Matt Hawkins & Jenni Cheung (writers), Linda Sejic (artist) Top Cow Productions, Inc. On the header menu of the Top Cow website, the second choice seen is “FREE COMICS.” Down at the bottom of the page, with the rest of the Sejic output, is Swing #1, co-written by Top Cow COO Matt Hawkins….
Cyber Force #1: The Tin Men Evolution Continues
Cyber Force #1 Matt Hawkins (writer), Bryan Hill (writer), Troy Peteri (letterer), Atilio Rojo (artist), Elena Salcedo (editor), Marc Silvestri (creator) Top Cow Productions, Inc. March 28, 2018
From Sexy to Sexual: Witchblade’s Return & Top Cow’s Maturing Eroticism
Back when I spoke to Matt Hawkins in March, we spent a little time talking about the sexual legacy of the first ten years or so of Top Cow. We also spoke a little about Witchblade–a title about a woman who carries a living weapon disguised as a bracelet–which is being resurrected in December, with…
Image 25: Top Cow’s Matt Hawkins’ Full Trajectory
From some guy in a line to COO of a 25-year-old publishing imprint, Matt Hawkins saw the glory days of Image, and stayed around for the aftermath. There are plenty of interviews covering the Founding Fathers of Image’s early days as masters of their new domain. The twentieth anniversary interviews Jason Sacks carried out for…
Lady Pendragon: What You Want to Know About Matt Hawkins’ Guinevere
Another in our series examining the women of Image Comics’ first decade — this time, Top Cow’s Lady Pendragon. “We all were sorta young and brash and thought [the heyday of Image] was gonna last forever, and… it didn’t. And so, the fall was kinda hard? And dealing with that — Extreme Studios went out of business, and then…
GOLGOTHA: Top Cow’s Latest Journey Through Time and Space
The GOLGOTHA is mankind’s first mission to colonize a new world. It will take 80 years for the vessel to travel across space, where its passengers will awake from cryosleep to an untouched civilization that they will call home. But when the crash-landing wakes Captain Michael Lawton from his nightmares, he discovers that technology caught up…