MANIFESTATIONS COMING TO DIGITAL

Top Cow's first digital graphic novel, by EPIC KILL creator

As announced at San Diego Comic Con, Image Comics and Top Cow Productions will release their first-ever exclusively-digital graphic novel, MANIFESTATIONS this August through comiXology.

MANIFESTATIONS, created, written and drawn by critically acclaimed author Raffaele Ienco (DEVOID OF LIFE, EPIC KILL), is a self-contained full color supernatural thriller.

Alice Rackham is a quiet shy girl of ten who, within her tiny frame, holds a powerful secret... if she concentrates hard enough she can reach into "the dark place" and return the spirits she finds there back to the land of the living. Sometimes, it's a recently passed loved one or pet she finds... but other times it's something horrible... something that doesn't belong among the living. Something that wants to take Alice and her mother to the darkness of the grave... forever!

"I'm a big fan of supernatural thrillers like The Sixth Sense, so I really wanted to create a graphic novel with great twists and turns that keeps the reader guessing, where you don't want to put the book down because you just want to read one more page,” said creator Ienco.

In addition to the digital comic, Top Cow and Content House are currently co-developing MANIFESTATIONS as a feature film.

"What I love about Raff's work on Manifestations is that he has created these great characters that I truly care about and then he constantly puts them in situations where I have no idea how they are going to survive,”  said Josh Morris of Content House.

"With Manifestations Raffaele tells a dark tale but it unravels in an inspiring, hopeful way," added Top Cow President Matt Hawkins. "I'm a huge fan of Ienco's work on Epic Kill and am really excited to be working with the guys at Content House on this project."

MANIFESTATIONS is a 126-page full color OGN for $4.99 and will be exclusively sold online exclusively at comiXology, starting on August 29.

ABOUT IMAGE COMICS
Image Comics is a comic book and graphic novel publisher founded in 1992 by a collective of best-selling artists. Image has since gone on to become one of the largest comics publishers in the United States. Image currently has five partners: Robert Kirkman, Erik Larsen, Todd McFarlane, Marc Silvestri and Jim Valentino. It consists of five major houses: Todd McFarlane Productions, Top Cow Productions, Shadowline, Skybound and Image Central. Image publishes comics and graphic novels in nearly every genre, sub-genre, and style imaginable. It offers science fiction, romance, horror, crime fiction, historical fiction, humor and more by the finest artists and writers working in the medium today. For more information, visit www.imagecomics.com.

ABOUT TOP COW PRODUCTIONS INC.
Top Cow Productions, Inc. (www.topcow.com), a Los Angeles-based entertainment company, was founded in December of 1992 by artist Marc Silvestri, who also co-founded Image Comics earlier that same year. Top Cow currently publishes its line of comic books in 21 languages in over 55 different countries. The company has launched 20 franchises (18 original and two licensed), including its flagship franchises WITCHBLADE, THE DARKNESS, and WANTED, in the industry's Top 10, seven at #1, a feat accomplished by no other publisher in the last two decades. Top Cow has also successfully licensed and merchandised its franchises into toys, films, statues, clothing, video games and roleplaying games.

ABOUT CONTENT HOUSE
Content House is management and production company founded in 2004, representing best-selling authors, screenwriters as well as the top names in comic books, video games and web comics. Spearheaded by partners Mark Saffian and Josh Morris, Content House currently has a slate of projects and transmedia franchises that range from an adaptation of the Dan Simmons novel THE CROOK FACTORY, with Johnny Depp's production company Infinitum Nihil at Warner Brothers to a film and videogame based on the post-apocalyptic New York Times best-seller ONE SECOND AFTER by William Forstchen. Most recently Content House announced the development of two feature film properties based on the hit comics EPIC KILL and DEVOID OF LIFE, and earlier this year Comedy Central announced an animated series for their 2012 development slate based on Content House's client and immensely popular web comic Cyanide and Happiness (www.explosm.com).