Artifacts #33
This issue of Top Cow Productions’ Artifacts series was the result of winning the 2012 Top Cow Talent Hunt. Matt Hawkins, the President of Top Cow Productions, read through over a thousand submissions for artists and writers looking for new talent to work on their Witchblade tie-in series.
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| Artifacts #33 - Written by Kenny Porter with Art by -Rom |
Issue Premise:
“THE TEACHER AND THE PREACHER”
Top Cow publishes its first team of winners from the 2012 Talent Hunt! Rapture bearer and defrocked priest Tom Judge and the nueromancer Tilly Grimes are hot on the heels of a prolific serial killer. But even if Tom is able to save the next intended victim, is he already too late to save her soul?
Ink Ribbon (One-Shot)
Ink Ribbon was my first independently written and produced comic book that was picked up by Visionary Comics and published digitally. I collaborated with artist Aly K. Sasagawa on this crime noir story about an art thief and his last, big job.
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| Ink Ribbon - Written by Kenny Porter with Art by Aly K. Sasagawa |
Issue Premise:
Michael Green is a thief who has spent his entire life looking out of number one and trusting himself alone. When the opportunity arrives for him to retire after one last job, he plans to pull the heist off solo. But Michael learns the high price he has to pay for his lone wolf attitude, with his life.
“Breakdown” - Third Place in Fiction 2010 LAND Creative Writing Contest
“Breakdown” is a short story I entered in the 2010 LAND Writing Contest where I won first place at my regional school (Muskegon Community College) and took third place overall.
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| Excerpt from "Breakdown" on the 2010 LAND Creative Writing Contest website http://www.landconference.org/journals/2010-creative/index.html |
Judge's Comments:
Like Hemingway's famous "Hills Like White Elephants," "Breakdown" is written predominantly in dialogue. Fred Wood and John Mayfall contend with the broken-down car in which they're supposed to be driving toward Fred's wedding, but are they talking about Fred's old Volvo, with which John may have tinkered, or Fred's fiancée, with whom John may have dallied? The soothsayer-of-a-tow-truck-driver serves to pose the ultimate question: fix the old clunker or trade her in? --Thisbe Nissen
