Google Play offers free comics and new comics-reading features
Google dips a toe back into the digital comics game with a new scrolling viewing method and upgraded storefront for Google Play...oh and some free comics!
Scribd goes subscription only
According to a letter sent to content providers earlier this week, Scribd, an online ebook service, is retiring its retail store in favor of...
E-book sales slipping, paper still popular but beware the phone
As many have noted of late, e-book sales are slipping, and Publishers Weekly's Jim Milliot has a report on how slowing e-book sales hit...
Digital comics: Where do tablets go from here?
By Bruce Lidl
The digital comics landscape has settled down significantly in recent months. Since Amazon’s acquisition of ComiXology in April 2014, it has become...
Farrago, the free comics app, is having a cosplay contest
We first wrote about Farrago Comics app for free comics in January, when they announced their deal with IDW.
Since then they've been adding more books to the app each month, including their first original comic SHRINKAGE, an 8-part comedic sci-fi action tale about how the most unknowable battleground we face is the one within our own craniums, written by Emmy Award winning writer Rob Kutner ("The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," "Conan") and illustrated by John Lucas (X-Men, Deadpool)
Now Farrago is running a Cosplay Contest, which launched at NYCC, along with chapter 3 of Shrinkage, which also just launched on the app
31 Days of Halloween: Sequential’s Halloween Sale
What could be spookier than discounts between 50 and 85% hacked off the print price of books from Dark Horse and Fantagraphics to SelfMadeHero and Improper Books all available via the Sequential app for tablet. We've been telling you about Sequential for a while now -- it aims to be the highness app for graphic novels only, with a fine selection of top books from the finest graphic novel publishers.
David Lloyd and Aces Weekly–the new frontier of comics
by Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson
David Lloyd is known for his innovative creativity drawing V for Vendetta along with writer Alan Moore. David’s use of the Guy Fawkes mask...
Dark Horse digital single issues now available on five new platforms
After years of releasing their digital comics via through their own app, Dark Horse has finally announced that all their comics will be available on Comixology, as well as four other platforms, including Kindle, Google Play, iBooks, and the Nook.
It's an expansive expansion and marks a very smart move for Dark Horse: there is really no upside to limiting digital distribution these days, and the multi=platform war was won long ago. All releases will be released simultaneously in print and digital. In June Dark Horse made its graphic novel line-up available via Comxiology and according to publisher Mike Richardson, “the sales have been incredible.”
LINE Webtoon launches the New Brooklyn comics line
We've been reporting various activities by LINE Webtoon, a line of digital comics available via an app for iOS and Google Play. Here's their...
And now D&Q is available on Comixology and Kindle
Well, D&Q was just about the last digital holdout among prestige comics publishers, but today they have joined the throngs with a full selection...
Weekly Shonen Jump and Kodansha join Comixology
Digital manga—more available than ever before. Both Weekly Shonen Jump and Kodansha have just joined Comixology and the Kindle store.
The digital Weekly Shonen...
Garbage Pail Kids Painter Programs His Computer to Create Comics!
Last month, Wired posted an update about John Pound, the co-creator of the Garbage Pail Kids trading cards, and how he uses somewhat archaic...













