Paul Dini Signing @ Meltdown Comics

[ENGLISH] Top Cow tells us: LOS ANGELES, Calif., December 15, 2008 – Top Cow Productions, Inc. announced today that superstar creator Paul Dini will make an appearance on Friday, Dec. 19, 2008 from 7 – 10 p.m. at Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles, Calif. for a Jingle Belle holiday party to sign copies of the recently released holiday special JINGLE BELLE: SANTA CLAUS VS. FRANKENSTEIN and copies of the MADAME MIRAGE trade paperback.

Dini will also be available for a Q&A to talk about these projects and his other works. Holiday cookies and egg nog will also be available for attendees.

After a successful run of the first “season” of MADAME MIRAGE at Top Cow, Dini then announced he would bring his entire Dinicartoons universe to the publisher. The JINGLE BELLE holiday special is the first book in that line.

Meltdown Comics is located at 7522 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90046. They can be reached at (323) 851-7223 and found on the web at meltcomics.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) in the industry’s Top 10, seven at #1, a feat accomplished by no other publisher in the last two decades. Its flagship franchise, WITCHBLADE, was TNT’s #1 original film of 2000 and the subsequent TV series was released on DVD on July 29, 2008. A feature film, co-produced by Platinum Studios, Inc. and Arclight Films, is slated to begin production in Australia with director Michael Rymer. WITCHBLADE is also the first American property to be fully adapted in Japan as an original anime and manga by Studio GONZO in 2006. Top Cow’s other flagship property, THE DARKNESS, was developed into a major next-generation video game release by Starbreeze and 2K Games and achieved platinum sales status. WANTED, an Eisner-nominated miniseries published by Top Cow from 2003-2005, is now a major motion picture from Universal Pictures starring Angelina Jolie, James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman. Virtually all of Top Cow’s other properties are in development as feature films, live-action television, animation or video games. Top Cow has also successfully licensed and merchandised its franchises into toys, statues, clothing, lithographs, puppets, posters, magnets, shot glasses, lighters, lunch pails, wall scrolls, mouse pads, die-cast cars, calendars, Christmas ornaments, Halloween masks, trading cards, standees, video games and roleplaying games.