Top Cow Productions has announced artist Zul Fadhli Kamarrudin as the winner of the 2026 Top Cow Talent Hunt, selected from more than 1,200 entries from around the world.

After Top Cow reviewed the submissions and narrowed the field, Top Cow founder Marc Silvestri personally selected Kamarrudin as the 2026 winner.

The 2026 Talent Hunt challenged previously unpublished artists to demonstrate their sequential storytelling skills using scripts featuring the current incarnations of Witchblade and The Darkness. The competition was designed to find one artist ready to make the leap into professional comics and give them their first opportunity to produce published work for Top Cow.

Kamarrudin was selected for his dynamic sequential storytelling and ability to balance large-scale action with character, pacing, composition, and clear visual storytelling. His submission demonstrated an ability to handle everything from complex action sequences and environments to quieter character moments, the skills required to tell a complete story rather than simply produce striking individual images.

As winner of the 2026 Talent Hunt, Kamarrudin will receive a paid assignment to illustrate a 20-page Top Cow story, marking his professional debut with the publisher. The Talent Hunt rules provide the winner with a paid assignment, which Top Cow will select.