SD10: The Piracy panel
by special correspondent Bruce Lidl Techland Presents: Comics and Digital Piracy A “hastily thrown together” panel on the last day of the Con made for some lively discussion about the realities and moralities of pirated comics. Moderator Douglas Wolk from Techland.com, a long time music critic, is concerned that the comics industry will fall into the self-destructive [...]
Continue ReadingSD10: Digital comics now!
by special Beat correspondent Bruce Lidl Late Thursday afternoon, as Comic-Con began to really hit its stride, as the shift from panel and show floor to party mode started to occur, the second annual “Digital Comics Now!” panel, hosted by Chip Mosher of BOOM! Studios got underway. In some ways the panel is a barometer for [...]
Continue ReadingTonight to do: Digital Panel: Abs & Apps @ Meltdown Comics… – Eventbrite
If you are not going to the Big Show or want to get a head start on the activities, here’s an interesting-sounding event, Meltdown’s Digital LA – Digital Panel: Abs & Apps . A ticket is $25 but includes networking and schmooze time. The speaker lineup alone is impressive: Scheduled speakers include: - Marvel, TBD @Marvel (previously [...]
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 ReadingTokyopop teams with Zinio for digital
Another digital comics deal, as Toykopop has signed with digital newsstand Zinio to sell a selection of their GNs. The line-up includes mostly OEL, such as Earthlight, The Dreaming and Van Von Hunter, and manhwa -- The Tarot Cafe -- although a few manga titles will be available soon. Books will sell for $5.99, cheaper than the print version but more than a comic book. Zinio is a virtual newsstand which sells proprietary downloads for Macs and PCs. According to Caleb Goellner, they use flash, which might be problematic for Apple devices.
Continue ReadingThe week in digital: HOLY CRAP
While 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 their own iPad/iPhone comics [...]
Continue ReadingThought for the day: digital publishing
The “Big Two” are dominant in the print world, but they’re also burdened by the weight of their respective (and convoluted) histories. They are both large, public companies with multiple layers of corporate management, plus sister companies with overlapping and/or competing interests. Because of their success and dominant positions, change is an understandably slow and costly process.
Continue ReadingiPad sells estimated 600,000-700,000 units opening day; Marvel a hit
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 out. Judging by our [...]
Continue ReadingDoctorow’s iPad dissent
While most people are counting the seconds to getting their hands on an iPad the way Peter Griffin counts the seconds to his next beer, SF author and Boing Boing blogger Cory Doctorow fires a shot across the bows with Why I won’t buy an iPad (and think you shouldn’t, either): Danny O’Brien does a [...]
Continue ReadingDay before iPad news roundup
As 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 can go over every [...]
Continue ReadingIDW’s Ted Adams talking comics and digital at ICv2
Innovative IDW head Ted Adams is interviewed at ICv2:Part 1 -Part 2, Part 3 On the comic book front, we’ve got in development literary projects with beloved, best-selling writers like James Patterson, Peter S. Beagle, Robert Bloch, and Mario Acevedo, as well as a second Richard Stark project by Darwyn Cooke. We’re working on a [...]
Continue ReadingDigital comics news and notes; comics on iPhone, Wowio
§ An iPhone ad running throughout the UK includes the comics app Comixology right there on TV. We can’t embed the ad, but it is another sign that comics are a key part of the Apple experience. § Speaking of Apple, they’ve been cracking down on some of the more sexually provocative iPhone apps, [...]
Continue ReadingGraphic.ly acquires iFanboy
Graphic.ly, a fairly new but bold player in the digital comics distribution field, has announced the acquisition of iFanboy, the popular comics news and information community. PR below: Graphic.ly, the cutting-edge community and digital content delivery platform for comics and other forms of publishing, has acquired iFanboy, one of the leading communities, news and audio & [...]
Continue ReadingErik Larsen on the iPad
The Image founder lays down somecommon sense: The thing is–the comic book industry has seen this wave coming toward us for years and has known it was coming for years and has been absolutely baffled as to how to deal with it. Creators and publishers want to make a living, after all–and thus far most of [...]
Continue ReadingFor now, the iPad rolls over and goes to sleep
Whether you’re basking in the afterglow or fretting unfulfilled, the tumultuous excitement of the iPad announcement has come…and gone. The reactions seem evenly mixed between the rapture and the crapture, with tech site grumbles loud and clear. Annaleen Newitz at io9 has a well thought out complaint: The iPad promises to be just as revolutionary as [...]
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