Tag: Digital Comics

Fans of Vertigo Comics and Image Comics recent turn to intelligent SF, here's another comic you should be checking out: The Solar Grid by Ganzeer. Ganzeer is an Egyptian muralist and graphic designer who...

LINE Webtoon's series of theme months continues with July's "Superheroes" launch. The mobile-based comics platform is rolling out several series including the second comic in the New Brooklyn superhero universe, the return of Heroine Chic, and the debut of The Badguys, winner of the Stan Lee/POW! Entertainment Superhero Comics Contest.

UPDATE: A little friend pointed us to this tweet by Mark Waid referring to a story on CBR about Yount's departure: https://twitter.com/MarkWaid/status/747666530754830336 So...sounds like a LOT of changes are happening that are not what was promised...

There's still life that thar "Netflix of Comics" race, as ComicBlitz has just expanded from an iOS app to a desktop site. An Android app is in the works as well. It's also expanded...

For years we've been wondering when a streaming comics model would be introduced that really opened up comics to the popular Netflix model of reading. There have been many attempts, but Comixology just...

Writer Mark Waid launched the digital comics site Thrillbent four years ago as a proof of concept for digital comics and since then it's run some mighty fine content, including experimental comics, Tim Gibson/s...

As we've been mentioning, it seems everyone is working on something for the new comics app Stela which launched last week with a line-up of free preview comics. Eventually, all the new chapters of...

Mobile comics platform LINE Webtoon is huge in Korea and getting bigger here, and they are no slouches in the diversity department. According to a release, 42% of LINE WEbstoon's creators are female, 48% of its comics feature female leads, and 50% of its over 6 million daily readers are women. Impressive, if not surprising statistics. And they'll discuss them more at a “Women in Digital Comics” panel to be held at SXSW on Friday, March 18^th. Participants include moderator Tom Akel, LINE Webtoon's director of content, and 2 Broke Girls’ star Beth Behrs (Dents), digital star Michelle Phan (Helios : Femina), LINE Webtoon creators Kaitlyn Narvaza (Where Tangents Meet, Siren’s Lament) and Susanna Nousiainen (ShootAround), and one of the winners of LINE Webtoon’s recent Superhero Comics Contest, Sandra Diaz (Supersonic Girl).

Back in the long ago days of the TokyoPop original English manga explosion, one of my favorites was a book called I Luv Halloween by Keith Giffen and Benjamin Roman, a world building comedy...

As you may recall, several companies out there are trying to become the "Netflix of Comics" with a streaming service that offers tons of comics to read. One such as ComicBlitz, which launched last...

Brian K. Vaughan, Marcos Martin and friends made a big splash with their digital-first, pay-what-you-want series The Private Eye. But they always intended for the publisher they created, Panel Syndicate, to house more than...

Boutique apps for digital comics aren't the big thing they once were, but they are still out there. Comicker, a website that was introduced earlier this year with five comics series, just launched...