Digital Comics

A quick update from Emerald City Comic Con, a convention which you can only access by jumping into your nearest hot air balloon and...

iVerse's "ComicsPlus: Library Edition" app just got a big boost.  They've added Viz to their roster. Manga isn't the primary mover in the Direct Market...

Are you one of those people who's miffed at the reshuffling that Vertigo is undergoing?  Mad about Hellblazer going mainstream?  I might have something...

In a move that is the opposite of a shock, some of the titles from the digital-first Monkeybrain imprint are coming to print at IDW, starting in June. The line will kick off with founder Chris Roberson's EDISON REX and continuing with AMELIA COLE AND THE UNKNOWN WORLD, RED LIGHT PROPERTIES and more.

In the wake of disappointing holiday sales, Barnes & Noble is rethinking its Nook strategy, the NY times reports, citing anonymous sources. As physical bookstores have become a beloved, adorable but untenable endangered species, kind of like the panda bear, since 2009 B&N has smartly attempted to move its core business into the digital segment. Their Nook e-reader is widely though of as a competitive (maybe even superior) platform to the Kindle, but recents sales have been down, proving making a cool gadget is no panacea, and maintaining your cool gadget is an ultra competitive field.

I just don't think Diamond gets digital.  They're trying, but they keep throwing some really odd things out there.  This latest bit has me...

Archaia's stellar line-up of fantasy, children and licensed comics—from Eisner Award-winning Mouse Guard and Return of the Dapper Men; fan-favorite series such as Rust, Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal, and Fraggle Rock; and new releases such as Cursed Pirate Girl and Iron: Or, the War After—will soon be available via iVerse's Comics Plus app, starting in March.

The other day we were joking about 80s comics weirdos/iconoclasts/content creators like Bob Burden and Steve Lafler -- post-underground cartoonists who turned out sizable, notable bodies of work that appeared mostly in serial form, mostly based around very strong characters. It's a format that has all but vanished. But here's another near legendary practitioner of the same, Canadian legend David Boswell, creator of Reid Fleming, World's Toughest Milkman. Boswell has just put all of Fleming's adventures online in a pay-what-you-wish format, which most people will take to be free, but be a good sport and drop a few bucks, won't you?

I'll hold my hands up and admit I'm not a digital reader at all- there are a few web-comics which I love and keep...

Monkeybrain Comics, the digital comics imprint, has been rolling along since its launch last July, and they have a new book debuting on ComiXology today: Phabula #1 by Dalton Rose (Sacrifice, Theremin)

As always, Amazon’s best seller lists are only rolling snapshots, but it’s always interesting to peek into what’s selling. The Kindle isn’t known as an ideal comics reading platform, but the top 20 free and paid comics has both the usual suspects and some surprises. The paid list has the warhorses—Walking Dead, Big Nate, Geoff Johns—but the free list is a total mishmosh.

Speaking of the Angoulêeme comics festival, Comixology is there and making news. Earlier in the week it was the announcement of an office...