Tag: Digital Comics
Tablets and Phablets and Digital Comics
Mobile Device Sizes Changing Rapidly
by Bruce Lidl
While the landscape for digital comics continues to develop in the post-Amazon takeover of comiXology era, the devices upon which those comics will be consumed are evolving as...
Dynamite Launches Their Own Digital Comics Store With Ten Cent DRM-Free Downloads
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 just because they can, they're launching with some $0.10 comics...
Valiant brings entire library to iVerse
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 Amazon's acquisition of Comixology. While Amazon is great at selling...
SDCC ’14: Comixology announces DRM-free backups for Image, Top Shelf, Dynamite, Monkeybran, Thrillbent
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 for their comics downloads. It's both an acknowledgement of the...
Report: Digital comics sales at $90 million in 2013
Milton Griepp has run his annual analysis of digital comics sales and the numbers are up again. He reports that digital was at $90 million in 2013, up $20 million from 2012. Although...
Sales Chart: Apple iBooks Comics Bestsellers, June 29, 2014
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.
Wombats, Beasticles, Eggs, Robots and Squinckidoodles: Moose Kid Comics is Available Free Right Now
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. A 30-odd page anthology of kids comics, the book features...
WOOL graphic novel now available on Comixology and Amazon
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 Palmiotti, Justin Gray and Jimmy Broxton, will be serialized in...
Graphicly Folds – Will Creators be Paid What They’re Owed?
This week saw digital comic publisher Graphicly announce that they have been acquired by Blurb, a book publisher who will be subsequently folding the comics section of Graphicly. The question, however, is if the...
Interview: Christian Beranek Offers ‘Validation’
Christian Beranek is the writer of Validation, a webcomic telling stories from the life of a trans girl living in the city. The series addresses the idea of her looking for a place in...
Interview: Mark Waid Talks Re-Establishing his “Empire”
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 as a comic. I spoke to Mark about transitioning the...
By the numbers: Doctor Who Humble Bundle now at more than $500k
We're not going to keep doing weekly updates on comics Humble Bundles, but since this is a new way of promoting comics—digital bundles on a pay-what-you-want model to a mostly gaming audience—is seems worth...