Marc Silvestri

Marc Silvestri (Palm Beach, March 29, 1959) is an American cartoonist and publisher. He is currently the CEO of Top Cow.

Silvestri began drawing books for DC Comics and First Comics, but emerged as a talent at Marvel Comics, most notably as artist on Uncanny X-men between 1987 and 1990. He later worked for two years on the Wolverine spin-off .

In 1992, Silvestri became one of seven artists - with Jim Lee, Whilce Portacio, Rob Liefeld, Erik Larsen, Todd McFarlane and Jim Valentino - who broke away from the big publishing companies and founded Image Comics. Silvestri's stable of titles began with Cyberforce, under the Top Cow label. The demands of the role of editor meant that time spent on the drawing board was drastically reduced. Many of Silvestr's stories were scripted by his brother Eric.

Disputes among Image's founders led to his temporary departure from the publishing house in 1996; after the split between Rob Liefeld and Image, Silvestri rejoined the company.

Under his aegis, Top Cow still publishes successful titles such as Witchblade, Darkness and Fathom today.

 In 2004 Silvestri made a fleeting return to Marvel to draw some episodes of the X-men scripted by Grant Morrison and some covers. That same year he launched a new title for Top Cow, Hunter-Killer, written by Mark Waid.

In 2009 he contributed to the Image United celebration event, where he had the opportunity to draw all the characters he created for Image.