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The Art of the Darkness Top Cow Productions, Inc

The Art of the Darkness Top Cow Productions, Inc

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The Art of The Darkness

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The Art of The Darkness

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The Darkness created by: , and

for Top Cow Productions, Inc. Marc Silvestri -chief executive officer Matt Hawkins -president and chief operating officer Rob Levin -vice president-editorial Filip Sablik -vice president-marketing & sales Chaz Riggs -production manager Phil Smith -managing editor Zach Matheny -production ¨ Adrian Nicita -webmaster

for Image for more info check out: www.topcow.com Publisher to purchase more books from Top Cow check out: Eric Stephenson www.topcowstore.com Executive Director

special thanks to: Roozbeh Ashtyani (2K games) and Eric “ebas” Basaldua (art collector) for their assistance in the collection of images for this book.

this editon Edited and Designed by: Phil Smith

The Art of The Darkness Art Collection, 2007 - FIRST PRINTING. ISBN-10: 1-58240-649-9 ISBN-13: 978-1-58240-649-7 SamplePublished by Inc. Office of Publication: 1942 University Ave., file Suite 305 Berkeley, CA 94704. $14.99 US, $17.61 CAN. The Darkness. © 2007 Top Cow Productions, Inc. All rights reserved. "The Darkness," the Darkness logos, and the likenesses of all featured characters are trademarks of To find the comics shop Top Cow Productions, Inc. The characters, events and stories in this publication are entirely fictional. With the exception of artwork used for review purposes, nearest you call none of the contents of this book may be reprinted in any form without the 1-888-COMICBOOK express written consent of Top Cow Productions, Inc. PRINTED IN CANADA.

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Artist Galleries

Marc Silvestri...... pg. 6

Dale Keown...... pg. 26 ...... pg. 40 Keu Cha...... pg. 46 Eric “ebas” Basaldua ...... pg. 50 Contents Steve Firchow...... pg. 56 Stjepan Sù ejic of ...... pg.« 60

Snapshot Gallery Svetlin Velinov...... pg. 68

This collection features commentaries from: lassic over David Wohl C C Gallery Steve Firchow ...... pg. 70 and Svetlin Velinov

Starbreeze Design

Showcase...... pg. 80

Series Gallery Sample...... pg. file 86

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Artist Gallery: Marc Silvestri -The Darkness co-creator, Image Comics co-founder, Founder Top Cow Productions, Inc.

“When it comes to a whole body of work, I have to give the nod to Marc of course. He created the look and feel of The Darkness and has done so many incredible images, nobody comes close!” –David Wohl co-creator of The Darkness

On the following pages:

The Darkness issue #7, art by: Marc Silvestri, Matt “Batt” Banning and Steve Firchow...... pg. 7

The Darkness E3 reprint, art by: Marc Silvestri and Stjepan Sejic...... pg.8 and 9

The Darkness issue #11-4, art by: Marc Silvestri, D-Tron and ...... pg. 10

The Darkness issue #11-1, art by: Marc Silvestri, Matt “Batt” Banning and JD Smith...... pg. 11

The Darkness issue #12, art by: Marc Silvestri, Joe Weems V. and Steve Firchow...... pg. 12

The Darkness issue #38, art by: Marc Silvestri, Matt “Batt” Banning and Steve Firchow...... pg. 13

Tales of The Darkness issue #1/2 2nd printing cover art and pencils...... pg. 14

Tales of The Darkness issue #1/2 art by: Marc Silvestri, Joe Weems V. and ..pg. 15

The Darkness: Coming of Age 2nd printing cover art by: Marc Silvestri, Matt “Batt” Banning and Steve Firchow...... pg. 16

The Darkness collected edition slipcase art by: Marc Silvestri, Matt “Batt” Banning and Peter Steigerwald...... pg. 17

The Darkness collected edition vol. 2 art by: Marc Silvestri, Matt “Batt” Banning and Steve Firchow...... pg. 18

The Darkness vol. 2 issue #1 Holofoil variant cover art by: Marc Silvestri, Matt “Batt” Banning and Steve Firchow...... pg. 19

The Darkness Play Magazine volume 5, issue #10, cover pencils and art art by: Marc Silvestri and Stjepan Sejic...... pg. 20 and 21

The Darkness Wizard Magazine cover 2006 art by: Marc Silvestri, Joe Weems V and Frank D’Armata...... pg. 22 and 23

Marc Silvestri country: web: www.marcsilvestriart.com Samplewww.topcow.com file

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