Are Todd McFarlane Productions and Top Cow Productions part of Image?
Yes. Image is currently divided into three major houses: TMP – Todd McFarlane Productions, Top Cow, and Image Central. “Partner studios” is how we refer to TMP and Top Cow. This means that they are owned and fully controlled by an Image partner. As such, they are fully autonomous from Image Central and are not bound by the rules and regulations thereof (consider it like this: you do not tell your boss what to do. The partners own Image. Therefore, they are “the boss”). TMP and Top Cow are not “imprints” of Image, they are, for all intents and purposes separate publishing companies that are in partnership with Image. TMP publishes Spawn-related books including Spawn, HellSpawn, and Sam & Twitch. TMP is also the home of McFarlane Toys. Any inquiries about TMP products should be directed to Spawn.com. Marc Silvestri’s Top Cow Productions publishes Witchblade, Tomb Raider, Fathom, Joe’s Comics (Delicate Creatures, Midnight Nation, and Rising Stars), and Battle of the Planets, among others.
