Digital Comics

UPDATE: A little friend pointed us to this tweet by Mark Waid referring to a story on CBR about Yount's departure: https://twitter.com/MarkWaid/status/747666530754830336 So...sounds like a LOT...

There's still life that thar "Netflix of Comics" race, as ComicBlitz has just expanded from an iOS app to a desktop site. An Android...

If you're ready to take a breather from the comic book culture wars, a couple of articles this week examined various vital aspects of...

"Black Death in America" is an Eisner nominated short story that originally appeared in the Vertigo CMYK: Black issue. Written by Tom King with...

If you've been reading the Beat regularly – and I know you have - you may have noticed that Dynamite is the King of...

For years we've been wondering when a streaming comics model would be introduced that really opened up comics to the popular Netflix model of...

Writer Mark Waid launched the digital comics site Thrillbent four years ago as a proof of concept for digital comics and since then it's...

As we've been mentioning, it seems everyone is working on something for the new comics app Stela which launched last week with a line-up...

Mobile comics platform LINE Webtoon is huge in Korea and getting bigger here, and they are no slouches in the diversity department. According to a release, 42% of LINE WEbstoon's creators are female, 48% of its comics feature female leads, and 50% of its over 6 million daily readers are women. Impressive, if not surprising statistics. And they'll discuss them more at a “Women in Digital Comics” panel to be held at SXSW on Friday, March 18^th. Participants include moderator Tom Akel, LINE Webtoon's director of content, and 2 Broke Girls’ star Beth Behrs (Dents), digital star Michelle Phan (Helios : Femina), LINE Webtoon creators Kaitlyn Narvaza (Where Tangents Meet, Siren’s Lament) and Susanna Nousiainen (ShootAround), and one of the winners of LINE Webtoon’s recent Superhero Comics Contest, Sandra Diaz (Supersonic Girl).

A few months ago we told you about Stela, a new line of mobile based comics. The companyhas strong comics-makers behind it - editor Jim...

Back in the long ago days of the TokyoPop original English manga explosion, one of my favorites was a book called I Luv Halloween...

As you may recall, several companies out there are trying to become the "Netflix of Comics" with a streaming service that offers tons of...