Digital Comics

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....

After a long wooing period, Viz has finally joined Comixology. Viz has its own ebook portal for manga and so was no stranger to...

The graphic novel adaptation of Hugh Howey's WOOL is now available in a serialized digital format via comiXology and Amazon.com. The adaptation, by Jimmy...

By Matt O'Keefe Over ten years in the making, Mark Waid and Barry Kitson's Empire is finally back. Volume 2 just debuted as on Thrillbent...