Marvel takes the day and date plunge with IRON MAN
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet It’s coming fast, kids. IDW recently announced a four-week window for digital comics releases, and Marvel today announced their first day-and-date release of a comic, the INVINCIBLE IRON MAN ANNUAL #1 by Matt Fraction and Carmine Di Giandomenico. While the story concerns the origin of the Mandarin, in future days, this [...]
Continue ReadingBye Bye Bye
Yesterday was the final moving day at the old Publishers Weekly office. One last day to shovel everything into a box. Every move comes with a purge purge purge mandate, and since we're moving to a smaller office, the need to travel light was particularly urgent.
Continue ReadingPublishers band together to shut down pirate site
Via Colleen Doran comes word that htmlcomics.com has been shut down by the FBI. The site was a very popular online library of unauthorized comics scans, with hundreds of thousands of issues available at the click of a mouse:
Continue ReadingiPad sells estimated 600,000-700,000 units opening day; Marvel a hit
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet According to one estimate, between 600,000-700,000 total Apple freaks were diddling on their iPads yesterday. That’s a bit more than the very conservative estimate of 200,000-300,000 sold. Other estimates were between 300,000-500,000 units, including pre-orders. Several locations, including Palo Alto and Santa Clara CA, Portland OR and Lancaster PA, were already sold [...]
Continue ReadingDay before iPad news roundup
Share this link on Facebook!TweetAs the Future of All Media approaches tomorrow with the launch of the iPad, it’s becoming clear that plenty of comics apps will be at the railing waving back to the mainland as the ship sets sail. Here’s what we’ve seen so far. (Click for larger versions of screenshots so you [...]
Continue ReadingEven FoxTrot cannot escape the coming of the iPad
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet This Sunday’s FoxTrot by Bill Amend takes on the coming revolution. The person who sent me this link wondered if the iPad will have any effect on comic strips…we wonder the same thing. What do you think? PS: How funny is it to see a cartoonist’s Twitter feed included in the gutter [...]
Continue ReadingInterview: Rantz Hoseley on the LongBox Launch at Emerald City
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet[It's been a long march for LongBox, the ambitious downloadable comics application for multiple platforms that is ready to go public this weekend. Even as downloadable comics and e-publishing are establishing themselves as a new foundation of comics publishing, LongBox CEO Rantz Hoseley took a moment to peek under the [...]
Continue ReadingWatch WATCHMEN on iTunes
Share this link on Facebook!TweetBack blogging at Newsarama, Paul Levitz runs down DC’s digital strategy, “Motion Comics” — which takes comics art and animates it. First up: WATCHMEN. Last summer, I traveled to London with Warner Premiere President Diane Nelson to show Dave Gibbons a first test of a new digital format. Diane’s team and [...]
Continue ReadingMore Wowio news
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe Wowio/Platinum news is coming thick and fast, as founder William Lidwell has sent the following email to all Wowio publishers: I am pleased to finally and officially announce that WOWIO has been acquired by Platinum Studios, Inc. The process took longer than any of us desired (you can make lawyers work [...]
Continue ReadingWho's buying Wowio? Platinum
Share this link on Facebook!TweetHm, curiouser and curiouser. Platinum Studios Announces It Is in Negotiations to Acquire WOWIO, LLC. Notice this is not an announcement that Platinum is BUYING Wowio, just an announcement that they are talking about doing it. Given the state of Platinum’s cash flow these days (as shown by the SEC filings) [...]
Continue ReadingWOWIO sold
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet WOWIO, the ebook distribution site, has gone offline and word is going around that the company has been sold. Wowio offered FREE digital distribution of various comics publishers including Lone Star Press, Steve Rude, Digital Webbing and many others. We’d been hearing rumbles that the company was behind slow [...]
Continue ReadingOnline Graphic Novels Make Great Reads, Cost You Nothing
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThat’s the title of a feature from Wired.com which gleefully states: I’m a huge fan of free things, especially free entertainment — really, who isn’t? Daily Bits has combed through the web, turning up a treasure trove of 17 graphic novels, all available for download. We’re sure every comic book retailer [...]
Continue ReadingCrossGen– what might have been
Share this link on Facebook!TweetOur recap of the Z-Cult affair for PWCW yesterday had this quote from Todd Allen: “There is a very real possibility that torrents, effectively advertising in this case, have been a factor in sales spikes. People will want a physical copy of an inherent physical product. Crossgen did the research on this [...]
Continue ReadingWhat comics can learn from the music biz, part XLVIII
Share this link on Facebook!TweetAs the Z-Cult story continues to evolve, many are pointing to the recent ups and downs of the music industry as a reference for where comics stand in the new digital landscape. This Wired interview with Universal Music head Doug Morris has been widely quoted this week, and it even contains [...]
Continue ReadingMore memories from Glenn Hauman
Share this link on Facebook!TweetComicMix’s Glenn Hauman posts his memories meetings with MARVEl people SIX YEARS AGO: –which leads into yet another story of how I was brought in to discuss digital strategies with comic companies. This time I was brought in to meet with Gui Karyo, at the time the CIO of Marvel, in March [...]
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