Tag: Digital Comics
What comics sell best on the Kindle?
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.
Comixology goes to France and comes back with Delcourt
Speaking of the Angoulêeme comics festival, Comixology is there and making news. Earlier in the week it was the announcement of an office...
Review: Unfair from Monkeybrain Comics
Written by Vance Sumner, drawn by Sandy Jarrell. Published by Monkeybrain Comics.
A one-off short story about family, Unfair is a decent, if flawed, issue....
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits: Make comics the Oily Way
Lots of stuff so let's get to it!
§ Sometime Beat contributor Laura Sneddon looks at 2013 in Comics and even though this list is mostly front of the Diamond catalog, there's a lot to be excited about.
Random Online Search of Comics Shops Shows Opportunities for Exploitation, Dominance
Ever since Diamond announced their Diamond Digital initiative, allowing comics shops to sell digital comics to customers, I've been wondering about the future of...
INTERVIEW: Ron Perazza’s Think Tank!
Ron Perazza has been at the forefront of new digital comic projects for years, with his work at Zuda and ComiXology helping to pave...
Phoenix Weekly goes digital with a special deal
The Phoenix Weekly is a UK comics magazine for kids—somewhat in the tradition of the ancient Beano and the departed Dandy—but a little more...
Mark Waid on the true cost of digital
As part of their fourth anniversary special, Robot 6 interviews Mark Waid on Thrillbent and got some interesting updates on every aspect, including the...
INTERVIEW: Allison Baker on Year One of Monkeybrain Comics
2012 was the year we saw Marvel relaunch, DC reboot, Image rise, and Valiant return. And yet perhaps one of the biggest success stories...
Kirkman: digital has not cannibalized print sales
This quote from Robert Kirkman has been making the rounds, but it's well worth circulating some more: as digital WALKING DEAD sales rise, print...
Comic Chameleon is the app for webcomics
About 10 years ago, when someone first proposed the idea of comics on mobile phones to us, we suggested putting webcomics on the phones....
More on comiXology
ComiXology has released a statement on their #1 ranking in the iPad app grossing list, as well as the fact that they have made...
