Digital Comics

Marvel collected editions are already available on iVerse, and some other digital platforms, and now, Kobo, the Canadian-based device that also offers apps for Mac, Android, and desktop. Marvel periodicals continues to be exclusive at Comixology and their own Marvel Unlimited All-you-can-ead service, but the GNs are everywhere. What did we tell you about attempts to diversify digital distribution?

  We all know that Amazon’s acquisition of Comixology changed the digital comics landscape. While the benefits that Amazon can bring for Comixology are evident,...

The latest comics themed Humble Bundle is Valiant Comics themed and it has SIX DAYS to go. The bundle includes some 120 comics and charity proceeds on the pay-what-you-want model go to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the Hero Initiative, and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF). For a mere $15 you can get entirely caught up on Valiant's excellent offerings here is the chance.

This infographic is also an ad for WEBTOONS, a portal short serialized digital comics that are native on mobile platforms. The site is run by NAVER, the Google of South Korea. Despite the proprietary nature there is still some interesting info on the graph including projected worldwide size of the digital comics market...no idea where that came from, but webtoons are an established entertainment format in South Korea, seemingly more than in the US.

Dynamite is launching their own digital comics store today.  The comics will DRM-Free, which makes DRM-free the new (and welcome) trend in digital.  And...

It begins. We've been hearing a ton o' rumors about comics companies jumping aboard iVerse—probably the second largest dedicated digital comics platform—in the wake of...

If you look at the history of digital music, the combination of a standardized format, moderate pricing (compared to CDs) and DRM-free files were...

With a line up of publishers yet unknown, Comixology has announced that from now on publishers will be able to choose a DRM-free option...

Is Diamond going to be selling DC's digital comics?  It certainly looks that way.  As you may recall, Diamond entered into a new digital...

Milton Griepp has run his annual analysis of digital comics sales and the numbers are up again. He reports that digital was at...

Sales Charts! You love them, I love them, and here's one I haven't linked to before. Publishers Weekly (my other job) is running category best sellers lists for Apple's iBooks portal and here's the line for the last week of June. I'm pubbing the whole list this time just to get you sale chart analysts ginned up, but in the future a link will do. Note these books are iBooks format and not via Comixology.

I've been waiting all weekend to recommend this to you, but Jamie Smart's all-ages digital comic Moose Kid Comics hit the internet last Friday....