Tag: Digital Comics

More activity and announcements on the digital side of things leading up to NYCC. First off, iVerse has another exclusive publisher in Ape Entertainment, specifically...

Launched on Sunday, Aces Weekly is a new anthology series created by David Lloyd, which seeks to bring back the spirit of traditional British...

At the start of the year, comiXology had recorded 50 million downloads. And in 9 months they're barreling towards 100 million. That would be...

By Steve Morris IDW announced today that the second story set in the universe of Chris Roberson and Rich Ellis' Memorial series is to be released...

Welcome to the Tuesday afternoon edition of the new Beat feature, Monday Morning Funnies. This week features the YouTube tween cartoon sensation, Pubertina. Sorry...

Early in, early out. Sony's PSP-based digital comics shop is officially closing at the end of the month. Comics will be unavailable to purchase...

Kill Shakespeare Artist, Andy Bellanger, and former Marvel/DC Digital Comics Editor, Kwanza Johnson launch social media comic series, Insta★COP, across across Instagram, Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter starting today.

Earlier this week, it was Penguin finally getting into the graphic novel business, years after every other other book publisher did so. And now Amazon Studios, Amazon the etailer's content development division, is also getting into the graphic novel game with BLACKBURN BURROW, a Civil War horror tale by Ron Marz and Matthew Dow Smith . The tale is based on a screenplay by screenwriter Jay Levy, and if that rings a chime that this is part of the "comics-to-movie" business model, your ears should be ringing. But as an added bonus—if you read the book on their site and leave feedback...they will give you a $5 Amazon gift card. Now this business model we could get to like!

By Steve Morris We've reported on a comic becoming a show, now here's a show becoming a comic. The Insider reports that Jane Espenson and...

Meanwhile, digital manga is coming on a more timely basis, as Japanese publishers wise up to the fact that piracy thrives on the immediacy and availability. Brigid Alverson rounds up the news on JManga, a daily spin-off of the still-getting-up-to-speed JManga site.

Oh no, Naoki! Not you too!

My new logline on all things comics is that in two or three years (probably two) original digital comics will be where comiXology is now—a major player in the game. Over at Publishers Weekly, Matt White provides a foundational, publisher-by-publisher look at what is going on in the digital-first arena, and it's a LOT.