Creators – Top Cow

Dani

Matt Hawkins — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 22:11:52 +0000

Dani was born in Athens, Greece in 1992 and studied sculpturing in Athens School of Fine Arts. She has worked with 2000AD, IDW, VAULT Comics, Legion M, BOOM! Studios, VERTIGO, Black Crown, DC Comics, Titan, AWA and is the artist behind DC’s “Arkham City: The Order of The World” and the creator owned series “COFFIN BOUND” from Image Comics, both written by Dan Watters and “The Low, Low Woods” written by Carmen Maria Machado for Hill House Comics. She is also the creator of “Tales from the Strips”, a self-published series that won the Reader’s Choice Award at the Greek Comics Awards 2015. She loves her cats and travelling around the world!

https://www.danistrips.com/

Andrea Mutti

Matt Hawkins — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 21:42:29 +0000

Andrea Mutti began drawing comics in his native Italy during the early 1990s collaborating with various European publishers on such series as DNAction (Xenia Edizioni), Lazarus Ledd and Nathan Never (both for Star Comics). In 2001, he landed in the U.S. market drawing acclaimed series such as The Executor and DMZ for DC/Vertigo, various Iron Man series for Marvel and G.I. Joe Origins for IDW, among many others.

Giuseppe Cafaro

Elena Salcedo — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 23:33:05 +0000

Giuseppe Cafaro is an italian artist who Is based in Caserta, Italy. He started his professional career in the Italian publisher GGStudio and right after, in 2012, he started to work for Aspen Comics on books like Soulfire, Fathom : Kiani and Trish out of Water, and Zenescope Entertainment as cover artist for several years.
He worked over the last 10 years with other publishers, like DC comics, on Suicide Squad and Catwoman, Dynamite Entertainment, on Red Sonja and Vampirella. He also worked on these graphic novels for Boom Studios based on Power Rangers franchise.
In 2021 he collaborate with Tim Seeley and Steve Orlando on Loaded Bible, for Image Comics and also worked for some short stories for Heavy Metal with Blake Northcott. He also collaborated with Phil Smith for the book Brik Jones – Attorney for Earth, for his publisher “Fighting Lion Comics

Marguerite Bennett

Elena Salcedo — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 23:28:13 +0000

Marguerite Bennett is a GLAAD-nominated, New York Times-bestselling comic book writer based in Los Angeles.
Her credits include DC Comics’ BOMBSHELLS, BATWOMAN, and RWBY, along with ANIMOSITY, HORDE, and INSEXTS through Aftershock Comics, and MOTHER OF MADNESS with Game of Thrones superstar Emilia Clarke for Image Comics. She has written MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS for Boom Studios, JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS through Archie, FORCE and YEARS OF FUTURE PAST at Marvel, RED SONJA and SHEENA from Dynamite, and the indie horror darling THE LOT for Bad Idea.
She is the lead writer of ARK: THE ANIMATED SERIES from Studio Wildcard.

Francesca Ciregia

Elena Salcedo — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 23:20:45 +0000

Francesca Ciregia is a comic artist. She has worked with Sergio Bonelli Editore (Il Confine, Dylan Dog), Marvel Comics and for Image/Top Cow (Covers). She also has collaborated with Behaviour Interactive and with several many Italian publishers.

Lyndon White

Elena Salcedo — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 20:33:59 +0000

Lyndon White is an illustrator, writer and comic book artist. His works have been published by Image, Top Cow and Blue Fox Comics. His acclaimed graphic novels Sparks and the Fallen Star and Candles are fantasy favorites.

Marc Silvestri

topcowadmin — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 18:31:24 +0000

Silvestri began his career drawing issues for DC Comics and First Comics. He joined Marvel Comics in the early 1980’s working on titles like Spiderman, Conan The King and X-Men vs Avengers. In 1990, he began his classic run on The Uncanny X-Men working alongside writer Chris Claremont and inker Dan Green. He subsequently spent two years drawing its spin-off title Wolverine with writer Larry Hama. In 1992, Silvestri became one of the original seven artists- along with Jim Lee, Todd McFarlane, Rob Liefeld, Erik Larsen, Jim Valentino & Whilce Portacio – to form the breakaway comics company Image Comics. Silvestri’s first penciled published title through Image Comics, Cyberforce, was put out under his own imprint company, Top Cow Productions. Top Cow’s many successes include titles: Cyberforce, Witchblade, The Darkness, Inferno Hellbound, Artifacts and The Magdalena. In 2004, Silvestri made a brief return to Marvel to pencil all four issues and covers of The New X-Men, written by Grant Morrison. Later that year, he launched and drew a new hit title from Top Cow, called Hunter-Killer with writer Mark Waid. In 2008, the comic book: Wanted, published by Top Cow and created by Marc Millar was made into a feature film starring Angolina Jolie, Morgan Freeman & James MacAvoy. Marc also executive produced the Witchblade live action TV series, the Witchblade anime and the A-Team feature film as well as two highly successful video games based on The Darkness. In 2009, Marc contributed to the crossover miniseries Image United, drawing all the characters he created through Top Cow at Image that were featured in the story. In 2011, Marc collaborated with writer Jason Aaron on Marvel’s The Incredible Hulk, Asunder issues #1, #2 and #3. Over the years, Marc has contributed to many other Top Cow titles such as: Aphrodite IX, Codename: Strykeforce and Rise of the Magi. In 2022, DC Comics released the seven-issue Magnum Opus, Batman and The Joker: The Deadly Duo that Marc wrote, penciled, and inked. The hit series was colored by Arif Prianto and starred Troy Peteri. Marc is currently writing and drawing covers for the new The Darkness series reboot debuting in October of 2024 as well as covers for the Witchblade series reboot premiering July 2024.

Jagdish Kumar

Elena Salcedo — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 03:52:19 +0000

Inker Jagdish Kumar is a Delhi, India-based artist currently working with Raj Comics, IDW, Dynamite, and Zenescope, as well as past credits at DC and Boom. He received Comic Con India’s Best Penciller-Inker Team Award for his work with penciler Lalit Kumar Sharma.

Matt Hawkins

topcowadmin — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 02:05:12 +0000

A veteran of the initial Image Comics launch, Matt started his career in comic book publishing in 1993 and has been working with Image as a creator, writer and executive for over 26 years.

President/COO of Top Cow since 1998, Matt has created and written over 30 new franchises for Top Cow and Image including Think Tank, The Tithe: Samaritan, Postal, Golgotha, Warframe, Aphrodite IX, Swing as well as handling the company’s business affairs.

Mostafa Moussa

Elena Salcedo — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 02:45:52 +0000

Mostafa Moussa always loved drawing as a kid, way more than studying at least. After graduation, he thought he may as well try it as a career, so he hopped on a plane and went to every convention and talked to every editor that he could. He was able to get work right away, and has never looked back. Over his career he’s worked with Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Image Comics, Dark Horse, IDW, Hasbro, Loot Crate, Dynamite, Coffin, Zenescope, and many, many others. He currently resides in Houston, Texas.

Nanjan Jamberi

Elena Salcedo — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 01:56:26 +0000

Nanjan Jamberi is an accomplished colorist with credits that include Injustice and Injustice 2 from DC Comics as well as multiple titles for Omnious Press including Dread Gods and more.

Thomas Hedglen

Elena Salcedo — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 22:56:30 +0000

Thomas Hedglen began working as an artist as a teenager, and then attended the Kubert School. He has worked with several comic publishers on a number of series, including: OMG!: A Horror Anthology, Silverline Christmas, Special, Cult Heroes, The Chosen, Brigade, and Prophet. He is honored to be working with the talented team at Top Cow on Syphon.