Top Cow is Collector's Paradise's Local Publisher of the Month for the Month of May

Top Cow Productions is Collector's Paradise's May Local Publisher of the Month! We work with a lot of publishers, and are friends with all of them, but none offer the support in both product and talent like Top Cow. Our customers have gotten to meet at our Release events people like Milo Ventimiglia, Jeremy Haun, Joe Benitez, Nelson Blake, Sal Regla, and this past weekend, Rick Loverd, Michael Broussard and the Top Cow founder himself, the tallest person in comics, Marc Silvestri. Top Cow is gearing up for a company-altering event, ARTIFACTS, which will re-focus the company’s titles and create a very convincing and entertaining mythology that will make fans want to pick up all the Top Cow titles. A 12 issue mini-series that will redefine the way you see Top Cow’s characters and create a cohesive reason for them to co-exist together as part of a shared universe. If you are an X-men fan, this is an event for you. If you like high concept fantasy and sci-fi, this is an event for you. Give ARTIFACTS a shot with the free FCBD ARTIFACTS primer, ask us for a copy, we have plenty in stock.

Source: Collector's Paradise

What The Con: Pictures from the 2010 Isotope/iFanboy Party: 100 Proof Hex!

WonderCon is always a crazy weekend, and it's usually because of the social events that we co-sponsor with Isotope. Whenever you see anyone dragging their ass on the con floor it's usually because they were out way too late the night before and there's probably rum still coursing through their veins.

The Saturday night event was the party held at Isotope in honor of Jonah Hex. This year the special guests were Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner and Darwyn Cooke and it had a cowboy theme.

Lots of bold face names spotted at this party which were headlned by guests of honor Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner, and Darwyn Cooke. They were joined by Dave Johnson (at times wearing his pirate mustache from the night before), Joe Casey, Matthew Southworth, Marley Zarcone, Filip Sablik, Blair Butler, Sara Lima, Graeme McMillan, Laura Hudson, Esther Inglis-Arkell, Sonia Harris, Kevin Gamble (aka Johnny Johnny) and iFanboy staffers Conor Kilpatrick, Ron Richards, Mike Romo, Josh Richardson, David Brothers, and Ryan Haupt.

Thanks to Isotope propieters James Sime and Kirsten Baldock for hosting what might have been their best party yet!

Source: iFanboy

---

OC Weekly: Over the Weekend: Long Beach Comic Expo

Four-and-a-half months after the inaugural Long Beach Comic Con, the organizers of the event (check out our interview here) saw fit to whet comic book fan appetites with the one-day Long Beach Comic Expo this past Saturday at the Long Beach Convention Center. It was one-third as long (the proper LBCC, returning the last weekend of October, is three days long) and about one-third the size, but at least three-fifths of the fun.

Though small, the Long Beach Comic Expo had lots of the usual stuff you'd come to expect at comic conventions--lots of comics, toys and assorted other bizarre ephemera for sale--but none of the stuff that comic conventions have come to attract recently, like relentless plugging of movies, TV shows and video games. The focus was on comic book themselves, fitting in nicely with the Long Beach Comic Con's motto of "love comics more."

Though Marvel and DC didn't have an official presence at the Expo--both held panels at last year's LBCC--Top Cow, a popular branch of Image Comics responsible for Wanted, Witchblade and others, was representing with a booth.


Read the full article here.

Source: OC Weekly

---

Spring Fan Expo's Signing Times

Hey Herders,

Tomorrow, Saturday, February 20th, is a one-day comic event put on by Long Beach Comic Con. It starts at 10 am and will run til 7pm.

Meet the fine folks that keep Top Cow functioning at booth #302.

The tentative signing schedule for tomorrow is:

[Update]
11:00 - 12:30 pm Eric Basaldua (Witchblade Annual, Hunter-Killer)

1:00 - 2:30 pm Rob Levin (Broken Trinity: Pandora's Box, Darkness: Shadows & Flame) and Joshua Hale Fialkov (Pilot Season: Alibi, The Crazies) with special guest Rahsan Ekedal (The Crazies).

3:00 - 4:30 pm Rick Loverd (Berserker)

4:30 - 6:30 pm Rick Basaldua (Witchblade Annual)

Herders who drop by the booth will be treated two early sneak peeks. Get a glimpse at the lead-in series to this summer's Artifacts, Broken Trinity: Pandora's Box #1 and at American Original/Top Cow's The Crazies. Both will arrive in stores on February 24th.

The Spring Fan Expo will be held at the Long Beach Convention Center is located at 300 Ocean Boulevard, Long Beach, California 90802.

See you there,
Top Cow

---

Broken Trinity: Top Cow at Spring Fan Expo

Top Cow Productions, Inc. proudly announced today that they will be exhibiting at Long Beach Comic Con’s Spring Fan Expo.

The one-day event will open to the public at 10am on Saturday, February 20th, with festivities lasting until 7pm. Fans are encouraged to stop by the Top Cow booth (#302) to meet their favorite creators and shop for limited edition convention exclusives as well as their favorite Top Cow comics.

Among the creators appearing at the Top Cow booth will be penciler Eric Basaldua (Witchblade Annual, Hunter-Killer), writers Rob Levin (Broken Trinity: Pandora’s Box, The Darkness: Shadows & Flame) and Rick Loverd (Berserker) and inker Rick Basaldua (Witchblade Annual). Fans are encouraged to check the Top Cow booth for signing times.

Fans who stop by the Top Cow booth will be treated to an exclusive first look at the lead-in series to this summer’s Artifacts, Broken Trinity: Pandora’s Box #1 by Levin, Bryan Edward Hill and Alessandro Vitti.

Broken Trinity: Pandora’s Box #1 will arrive in stores on Wednesday, February 24th. Fans will also be able to pick up numerous free promotional items, posters and comics at the booth.

The Spring Fan Expo will be held at the Long Beach Convention Center is located at 300 Ocean Boulevard, Long Beach, California 90802, United States of America.

Source: Broken Trinity

---

Join Us This Month At Long Beach Comic Con's Spring Fan Expo

From Buzzine:

Flush with the success of last fall’s first Long Beach Comic Con, organizers have not only planned another later this year, but a special Comic Expo February 20th at the same location, the Long Beach Convention Center in downtown Long Beach just blocks from the water.

MAD Event Management and Long Beach Comic Con will stage the one-day event in the Convention Center’s Promenade Ballroom from 10:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m., and entrance to the floor for the day is a reasonable $10. Comic and comic-related companies will include Lionsgate (producers of many Marvel animated features, including the new Planet Hulk), Aspen, Top Cow, Com.X, High Tower, Comic Madness, Graphitti Designs, Freedonia Funnyworks and Metropolis Comics. Aspiring artists can meet with writer and editor Barbara Kesel for a one-on-one portfolio review, while an Artist Alley will weclome fan meet-and-greets. More creators are expected to be announced.

Read the full article here.

Source: Buzzine

---

Around the Comic Town: Tommy Lee Edwards Provides Concept Art for Book of Eli Premiere

Tommy Lee Edwards with Actress Mila Kunis at the premiere of The Book of Eli

Our friend Tommy Lee Edwards attended the premiere of The Book of Eli, for which he provided concept art for.

Check out Scoop's coverage of the event.

Source: Diamond Galleries' Scoop

---