Exclusive Preview at CBR: Broken Trinity Aftermath

The quest for the 13 artifacts in the Top Cow Universe continues. Following the events of Broken Trinity come two new characters, two new stories and another chapter in the growing Witchblade saga.

Michael Finnegan wrestles with the power and purpose that comes with the Glacier Stone, and his first test might be saving Darkness wielder Jackie Estacado from himself. Hundreds of miles away, Glorianna Silver suffers from her banishment at the hands of The Angelus, and in order to survive, she will have to embrace the power of the Ember Stone and the destiny it has for her.

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Los Angeles Festival of Books Kicks Off April 25th

Top Cow will be exhibiting in the Comix Strip section of the LA Festival of Books!

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ECCC: Inside the Writer’s Studio with Mark Waid

The format of Saturday’s Inside the Writer’s Studio panel with Mark Waid at the Emerald City Comicon was, unsurprisingly (given its title) modeled after the Bravo television series “Inside the Actor’s Studio.” In lieu of James Lipton, Top Cow Publisher Filip Sablik and BOOM! Studios co-founder and Chief Executive Ross Richie asked questions of Waid in an intimate retrospective on the acclaimed writer’s career. READ MORE.

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Graze Anatomy: Sketches from Your Publisher

Here's my second Cintiq computer generated sketch. This time I tried playing around with a quick observational sketch of my wife watching TV and using two tones to create some shading. It's not great, but still fun.

This is Sketch #040.

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Top Cow creators appear on Shuster Award Nominee list

Congrats to colorists Dave McCaig (Berserker, Broken Trinity: Witchblade & Angelus), Blond (Freshmen: Summer Special, Dragon Prince), and Nathan Fairbairn (Pilot Season: The Core) as well as Top Cow alumni Dave Finch for their Shuster Award nominations honoring outstanding Canadians in comics.

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Graze Anatomy: Sketches from Your Publisher

It's a brave new world, gang! Yesterday I bought a 12WX Cintiq tablet which is a super sweet bit of technology that combines a traditional Wacom tablet with a touchscreen. It's about as close as you can to drawing on a computer in the same way you draw on a piece of paper.
I still have to calibrate my settings more accurately and get some custom brushes going, but here's my first crack at drawing on the computer.


And for you process buffs, I've included below a version of the drawing with the first "sketch" layer intact so you can see my sketchy little under-drawing.

This is Sketch #039.

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TOP COW AT EMERALD CITY COMIC-CON

New Marc Silvestri Witchblade Variant Cover Debuts at Popular Seattle Show

LOS ANGELES, Calif., April 1st, 2009 – Top Cow Productions, Inc. proudly announced its plans today for this weekend’s Emerald City ComiCon, the popular comic focused show in Seattle, WA taking place April 4-5.

The publisher will be celebrating the 125th Issue of Witchblade with a cover variant exclusively released for the Emerald City ComiCon featuring a brand new illustration by Marc Silvestri of Sara Pezzini. This marks the first time Silvestri has depicted Pezzini in her “dark armor” form, which she has adopted as part of the “War of the Witchblades” storyline that kicks off in issue #125. Copies of the exclusive variant cover will be available at the Emerald City ComiCon show booth (#604) for a SRP of $10.

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