Digital Comics

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.”

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...

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...

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...

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...

LINE Webtoon is a popular digital comics platform, based in Korea, that came to the US last year. As previously announced, they're bringing Marc Silvestri's Cyber Force to the platform, starting today, with free downloads. . Cyber Force was one of the original Image Comics titles, and follows a group of cybernetically enhanced do gooders who have adventures while being rendered in Silvestri's fine line style.

  Add Blask Mask to the list of publishers who will be available on both ComiXology  and Amazon’s Kindle Store. Starting today you can read...

Comics business has generally been on an upward trajectory of late, but there are several signs that's things are slowing down a bit. No...

The Comixology-Delcourt team-up to bring some of the finest French language comics to the English speaking world via digital is just the start. Europe...

And another new business venture for SDCC Week: LINE Webtoon is a digital comics service, powered by NAVER, Korea's biggest search engine. They have a pretty huge library of Korean content, and have been in tyhe us for about a year—but now they are adding original English language materials, starting with a digital relaunch of CYBERFORCE by Marc Silvestri and Matt Hawkins, and a new comic written by YouTube fashion and beauty maven Michelle Phan. The Enchantress is a 26-chapter story "delving into a near-future world of oppression, where elemental magic and ancient alchemy in the hands of one hero may save humanity. " Random quotes from PR:

First big announcement of the week: Delcourt, the biggest independent comics publisher in France, will release a line of their book in English for...

The Beat's head is beginning to spin a little bit from the flurry of digital comics announcements that are flying fast and furious in...