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Mad Cave Studios Announces the 2025 Talent Search Winners!

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The wait is over! Mad Cave Studios has announced the winners of the 2025 Mad Cave Studios Talent Search, now in its eighth year of spotlighting bold, emerging voices in comics. Each year, the program invites aspiring writers, artists, colorists, and letterers from around the world to showcase their craft for a chance to collaborate professionally with Mad Cave’s editorial team—a testament to the publisher’s commitment to discovering and nurturing new talent.

First announced in June 2025, this year’s Talent Search welcomed creators to develop stories within one of four eligible Mad Cave universes, including Exit City, Dark Pyramid, Endless Night, and Sanction. And after an incredible showing of talent from around the world, the publisher is thrilled to introduce eight emerging creators chosen to join its ranks, continuing the publisher’s mission to champion fresh, diverse voices in comics. 

1st Place: Writer Jennifer Liao, a filmmaker and TV director (FROM, Two Sentence Horror Stories, Murdoch Mysteries); Artist Algus Calcagno, a Buenos Aires–based illustrator and educator with over twenty years of experience in sequential art; Colorist Pedro Estouco, a Brazilian comic book creator who discovered the world of comic book coloring in October 2023 and began working professionally full-time in April 2024; and Letterer Marina Leon, a graphic designer and comic letterer based in Argentina.

2nd Place: Writer Devon L. White, a Baltimore-based dystopian-noir writer whose work explores bureaucratic systems and marginalized voices; Artist Gabriele Falzone, an Italian illustrator and graduate of Scuola del Fumetto in Milan whose credits include Distorted (Scout Comics); Colorist Edson Jimenez, a visual storyteller from Cuernavaca, Mexico, focused on creating vibrant, atmospheric worlds; and Letterer Chase Snyder, a New Jersey–based letterer and frequent collaborator on independent comics and anthologies.

Scout Comics’ Metal Monday Returns with Distorted #1 Metal Cover

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Scout Comics is making a limited supply of Distorted #1 available today as part of Scout Metal! Only 100 copies were made and they are all individually numbered. Details are below!  Grab it now before they are gone for good!

Distorted is written by Salvatore Vivenzio with art by Gabriele Falzone. Somewhere in the world, there is someone who feels different/special/cursed, who is losing their mind right now. You’re not alone. Take James for example. He would like to run away from his parents and from a life that doesn’t belong to him. On the other hand, Tom is forced to face his past and hunt down his own kind, like a hound on the leash of an unknown master. Brennar is on the hunt for money and a peace he can’t find anywhere. They are three people whose superpowers are more like a burden. In this world, there are no superheroes.

The Distorted #1 Metal Cover is available for $69.99 and available to order now.

The Distorted #1 Metal Cover

Top Cow Announces the 2019 Talent Hunt Winners

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Top Cow Productions has announced the winners and runners-up for the 2019 Talent Hunt. The semi-annual competition continues Top Cow’s tradition of giving aspiring creatives a hand up, paid work, and the opportunity to work on some of the most iconic characters like The Darkness.

This year’s competition garnered over 500 submissions, Top Cow Talent hunt judge Ryan Cady returned to help Matt and Marc pick the finalists.

The winners and runners-up will join the ranks of industry juggernauts that have reached critical acclaim like Isaac Goodhart (Catwoman), Tini Howard (X-Men), and Stephanie Phillips (A Man Among Ye).

The Top Cow Talent Hunt winners and runner-up in the artist category:

Artist Winner: Gabriele Falzone

About: Gabriele Falzone is a 24-year-old Italian illustrator from Siracusa. He attends the Scuola del Fumetto in Milan. He started his career in 2017 with Gamble, published by ALT!—and illustrated La Rabbia in 2018 through Shockdom.

“I’m truly honored to have been chosen among so many artists from around the world. Thanks to all the Top Cow team for this is a great opportunity!”

Artist Runner-up: Farid Karami

About: Farid is a 26-year-old artist who has worked in animation with the aspirations to work in the comic book industry.

“I still can’t believe it. Thanks to the Top Cow Production team for this opportunity and great honor. I am forever grateful.”

The Top Cow Talent Hunt winners and runner-up in the writing category:

Writer Winner: Adam Breen

About: Adam is a writer from Dublin, Ireland. He has a degree in English and Film. As a writer, he has an ever-increasing pile of comics to read that threatens to consume his home. He enjoys movies and using his bio to say hi to his wife, Hey Sharon!

“I am deeply honored to be one of the winners in this years’ Top Cow Talent Hunt! It was a massive shock that I’m still recovering from! I’m very excited to work with so many talented people and I cannot wait to collaborate with them and help bring the story to life.”

Writer Runner-up: Rob Pilkington

About: Rob Pilkington is an LA-based writer whose comic work is featured in Cloudscape Comics’ Life Finds A Way anthology, Red Stylo Media’s What Fresh Hell Is This? anthology, and a yet-to-be-announced project with TKO Studios. His screenwriting has been recognized in the Academy’s Nicholl Fellowship semifinals and in Hollywood’s annual survey of buzzy unproduced genre screenplays, The Blood List.

“Even as a starry-eyed 90s kid in my local comic shop, Top Cow was always a boss-level presence. I’m beyond excited to be the Talent Hunt Runner-up and contribute a tiny part to the Top Cow Universe.”

Get Distorted this Winter from Salvatore Vivenzio, Gabriele Falzone, and Scout Comics

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The Distorted are different from us, or at least that’s how they feel.

Tom is one of them. He works as a PI and is contacted by Elisa, the president of a shadowy, quasi-government organization, to track down the “Distorted”. Brennar is hunting them down as well. The two will chase them like predators but never meet, like parallel lines, until one fateful moment. James is a young adult who does not know what he wants from life. He is trying to find himself, but he is forced to deal with his powers… and his flaws. When he meets someone like him, he decides to commit a robbery and start a new life. Hunting him down is Mason, a “Distorted” serial killer who believes killing other Distorted will make him stronger. It is him that will bring Tom and Brennar together and force them to confront each other.

Distorted is a brand-new comic series from writer Salvatore Vivenzio, artist Gabriele Falzone and published by Scout Comics. It comes to shops this Winter.