Tag: Matt Hawkins

Kevin Smith has his own imprint at Dark horse, among other news notes.

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It was a night to remember!

Top publishers dicuss how they deal with the exhausting convention explosion.

Let’s just set the scene. This weekend’s ACE Comic Con in Glendale, Arizona took place at the Gila River Arena (where the Arizona Coyotes hockey team plays). The arena is part of a greater...

Dante is a new one-shot from writer Matt Hawkins (SYMMETRY, THINK TANK) and Jason Ning and  artist Darick Robertson (HAPPY!, Transmetropolitan, TheBoys). It's a tie-in with came packager Cryptozoic and IP comapny Strange turn. The...

With convention season swinging in high gear with C2E2 this weekend, followed by WonderCon, MoCCA and ECCC, let's review a little bit of convention exhibiting basics, shall we. With the flood of smaller shows,...

Many people ask me, "Why don't you do a podcast?" and I reply, "I do!" It's called More to Come and it's produced by Publishers Weekly. This week, I chat with Matt Hawkins, president and coo of Top Cow. Matt is more than just an inimitable Facebook poster (if you've read his stories about standing in line at the grocery store, you know what I mean.) He's also an industry veteran who's seen the highest highs and the lowest lows, and in this talk he dishes on the early days of Image and much more.

Strange small towns commanded by dogmatic despots have long been a staple of post-apocalyptic fare like The Walking Dead. So when Postal # 1 opens on a church sermon delivered by a preacher waving a gun at a man who is bound at the foot of the altar, it seems a familiar scenario. Perhaps this is what the comic wants us to think, lulling us into a false sense of narrative security to contrast with it's intriguing final pages.

These graphic novels have been chosen because they were all released in the past 6 months and equally combine qualities of well-crafted concepts and remarkable artwork to create solid visual narratives. They aren’t the...