The Year in (P)Review: 2011
So, as happens frequently in America, we treat History like a Cassandra, reading and studying, but choosing not to believe or remember the lessons it teaches us. I know Cassandra's fate, and thus the dangers of saying "I told you so". So instead, I'll quote Gene Wilder in " Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory": Oh, you should never ever doubt what nobody is sure about. So, what can we expect in 2011?
Continue ReadingNice app: Sad Comics
Hm, a free iPad app full of cute indie comic? Sad Comics. Perhaps worth a peek. Via Scott McCloud, who also updates his health in the link.
Continue ReadingDoran launches valiant, probably futile piracy counterattack
Has the pirate menace changed the creative business model for good? Most would say so, but some people are still fighting back. Up on The Hill, Colleen Doran launches a spirited counter attack on piracy:
Continue ReadingDC launches Digital Comics Store
Digital comics continue to evolve quickly into a significant revenue stream for publishers, and they are increasingly moving forward without worrying about other sales outlets. To wit, today's announcement that DC has installed a standalone comics store on their site. Co-publisher Jim Lee, who has led the charge on this, made the announcement on the Source blog:
Continue ReadingDigital Watch: Disney goes deep, manga goes bootleg, 4chan lends a hand
§ Have you ever wondered what it would be like to read an interview with a publishing executive talking about his digital plans WITHOUT worrying about direct sales retailers taking his every word as a call to arms? Well, take a gander at ICv2's talk with Disney's Dario Di Zanni:
Continue ReadingICv2 Comics & Digital Conference Audio: Where we are and where we’re going
Another audio file of the first panel at the ICv2 digital comics conference. This one brought together almost all of the emerging industry's major players for a fascinating conversation. As opposed to previous panels where there seemed to be questions over whether this was even a viable business model, these are smart people doing smart business moves in a dynamic art form. This is where we're going.
Continue ReadingGraphic.ly and Marvel offer desktop downloads
Yet another step towards complete digital distribution as Marvel and Graphic.ly announced a deal to sell Marvel Comics via graphic-ky's desktop application. Single issues will be available via both digital download to desktop and some mobile devices, including such titles as Iron Man; Kick Ass; Amazing Spider Man; Captain America, and Astonishing X-Men. While comics have been getting establish on handheld devices, selling them via a stand-alone desktop client has been having a harder time getting off the ground; this should change that. Desktop downloads have the advantage of being readable when offline of benig able to be shared among devices.
Continue ReadingSD10: All the Top Cow news we are now allowed to print
Embargoed until the Top Cow panel happening right about now, we can now share all the latest Top Cow news. Top Cow is reviving Minotaur Press as an imprint for its more "independent-styled series". Upcoming Minotaur projects are ECHOES by Joshua Hale Fialkov and artist Rahsan Ekedal
Continue ReadingNews: Larson/Pantoja, Anime Expo, more Marvel digital, Humanoids
Hope and Tintin, Anime Expo's diminished manga presence, and what is Marvel thinking of NEXT for their digital publishing?
Continue ReadingDC digital fallout: Royalty war
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Lots of reaction and ripples from yesterday’s announcement that DC was at long last joining the digital world with their DC Comics apps for iPad, iPhone and PSP. One of the more amusing developments came from the news that DC was definitely including creator royalties for digital sales, as announced in [...]
Continue ReadingIf the new DC Comics app keeps crashing your device…
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Try downloading the DC Comics via the regular comiXology app. ComiXology’s David Steinberger promises an update via Twitter: we’re updating the app with apple now, we have found a bug with early iPods and iPhones.
Continue ReadingDC Comics launches iPad/iPhone app — with day-and-date — UPDATED
Quietly in the night, with no fanfare, coming in on little cat feet, DC Comics has launched an application for iPhone and iPad. The app was developed by ComiXology, which also launched the Marvel and Boom comics apps, and the DC version has a similar interface. Initial offerings include free comics: several stories from Batman Black & White, including one by Ted McKeever, Bayou from Zuda, and a preview of today's Superman #700. Paid offerings -- priced at the Marvel standard of $1.99 -- include the first issues of Sandman, Unwritten, Fables and The Losers, issues of Fringe, and a bunch DCU issues, including all four issues of Justice League: Generation Lost -- the first three issues are priced at $1.99, while issues 4 -- arriving in stores today -- is priced at cover price of $2.99.
Continue ReadingOops, one more digital link: THEY ARE ALL AROUND US
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Brian Hibbs has another retail-focused take on digital which begins: I had kind of hoped I was done talking about digital, for at least a little while, but I think there are still bits that people are confused enough about that staying on the topic for another month might make some sense. Bad [...]
Continue ReadingThe week in digital: HOLY CRAP
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWhile we’ve been ranting and complaining and what not it has been an epochal week in digital comics publishing with so much crap going on, we are just going to link like crazy. The week started off, of course with BOOM! Studios making two big announcements. First, they joined Marvel with [...]
Continue ReadingJoe Q sheds more light on digital delivery
Share this link on Facebook!TweetYesterday’s installment of Cup O’ Joe was an especially timely one, with Marvel’s new Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada explaining a few things. For instance, of his new title, he reminded us that Avi Arad, the film exec much responsible for improving Marvel’s film profile in Hollywood, was the previous holder [...]
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