Tag: Digital Comics

Just in case you were at your mountain retreat over the weekend, the big news was that the new Amazon/Comixology moved swiftly to disable...

With Comixology's acquisition by Amazon, the number 1 digital comics app is now but a pawn in the larger Kaiju battle of Amazon, Apple,...

Over at Thrillbent, the webcomics portal he devised two years ago, Mark Waid has announcedThrillbent 3.0, which includes an iPad app that will allow users to sync their website purchases, see where theyleft off, and other up-to-date functions. In addition to the free comics Thrillbent has always offered, Waid is adding what he calls a “Hulu Plus” level that includes new content for a monthly subscription of $3.99, which is, as Waid points out, is the price of one comic. For this you get:

There's a pretty lively discussion of Comixology's Submit program going on in the comments of this post. And while SUbmit seems to be...

The excited combustion of the Amazon/Comixology announcement has cooled off and now people are just wondering when the first effects of this blockbuster deal will be seen. While many people have been fretting about the survival of Comixology Submit—their upload it yourself, share the profits platform for indie comics—it doesn't seem like the kind of thing that Amazon would be averse to since they are also big on upload it yourself portals. When I first wrote about his deal, I linked to Ryan Estrada's take on Submit, which was that it wasn't ahuge money maker for him. However I received an alternate view of Submit from Graham Johnson, co-creator of Of Stars and Sword (above)and a member of Serious Turtle Studios.

People are STILL talking about Amazon's announced plans to acquire Comixology, although it has settled into the wait and see mode for now, as...

The great digital hope has been acquired by one of the giant fire breathing kaiju of the digital era. Will they trample tiny cottages beneath their feet or become a lovable behemoth? Ask me in a year. In the meantime... First off, will you be able to read your comics? A story at the Guardian indicates yes...but...

The Beat just participated in a conference call with Comixology CEO David Steinberger and Amazon's vp of digital content David Naggar, and while details...

It's common wisdom that reading short bursts of information online subtly changes the way you process paper-based written information, but here's a nice comforting...

Every so often a comic arrests you on the spot, and you're drawn wholly into a new world, style, and story. It happens sometimes...

It might be all well and good for Harry Potter and his inherited money and fancy scholarship-based schooling in a Scottish castle, but stories...

Marvel announced some improvements to its AR app at SWSXi yesterday, including finally adding the audio components it talked about last year. It also has improved the panel flow and the AR extras will now be available in all digital comics. They also announced an Ultimate Spider-Man Infinite comic, to be aimed at younger readers. Ultimate Infinite Spider-Man -- that sounds pretty indestructible.