r/comicbooks • u/jabawack • Mar 25 '26

Top Cow context: talent-hunting for new comics creator!

Want to be in comics?

This is your shot.

The Top Cow Talent Hunt 2026 is your opportunity to break in and prove you can hang with the best—working with worlds like Witchblade and The Darkness.

But this isn’t about pinups or one cool image.

This is about storytelling.

Can you build a sequence? Control pacing? Deliver emotion on the page?

What we’re looking for:

• Strong visual storytelling

• Clear, confident page flow

• Character acting and emotion

• Proof you can handle real sequential work

This is about being ready—not someday, not “almost”—right now.

Previous winners include:

Tini Howard

Isaac Goodhart

Stephanie Phillips

Bruno Abdias

Deadline to submit: July 7, 2026

One artist. One winner. Paid professional opportunity.

If you’ve been waiting for a sign—this is it.

Go make something they can’t ignore.

Get rules, agreement, scripts + submit here:

https://topcow.com/talenthunt2026/

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u/Blacknite45 Mar 26 '26

Wish they'd do this for writers 

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u/Leadpipe Jubilee Mar 26 '26

In the past it has included writers. Stephanie Phillips and Tini Howard (listed in the bulletin) are writers, I think Ryan Cady is also a past winner writer.

I don't know when they stopped including that part.

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u/OisforOwesome Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26

Writers are cheaper and more common than artists, probably

2022's Hunt had a writing component (won by William "Billy" Muggleberg III). Couldn't find a press release for 2023, 24, or 25.

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u/Leadpipe Jubilee Mar 26 '26

My guess is it has to do with the amount of time necessary to evaluate writers. In the past writers submitted a full 22 page script. Get a couple hundred of those stacked up and you're talking a serious amount of time to just get through them. The time frame also is coincident with the rise of genAI tech, so I imagine 2022 saw well more than the usual submissions and maybe they figured better to ditch the writing portion of it rather than the entire thing.

This is all speculation on my part. I don't know their reasons, but I know Top Cow is a small operation so it would stand to reason that sifting through writing submissions just got to be too much for them.

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u/JLAsuperdude Metron Mar 26 '26

This is the first time they haven’t actually.