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Posts Tagged ‘Comics’
Wired.com’s Underwire blog takes a look at the upcoming digital comics service from Dark Horse Comics, which will include an iPad/iPhone app. The important thing to note here is that unlike the other big comic publishers that often have their own apps but based on the Comixology platform, Dark Horse is producing its own app. [...]
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This article was posted on December 12, 2010 under the category Comics, News, and covers the following topics: App, Apple, Comics, Comixology, Dark Horse Comics, Digital Comics, iPad, iPhone, Pricing
Comics Alliance reports that print sales of comics and graphic novels are down: 5.6% decline over last year, singles down 10%, and no single title selling over 100,000 copies. Compare this to digital comics sales that are up a whopping 1000% over the same period! (Although yes, this is compared to a time before tablets [...]
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This article was posted on December 9, 2010 under the category Comics, and covers the following topics: Comics, Diamond Comics Distributors
Comics Alliance posts a comprehensive look at the current state of digital comics, or as they better describe it, “seven points of conversation we need to be having about digital comics.”
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This article was posted on November 23, 2010 under the category Comics, and covers the following topics: App, Comics, Comics Alliance, Digital Comics, iPad, Technology
This is something I posted over at SNOW Magazine a couple of weeks back, and forgot to mention here, even though I think it’s important to note in the context of all the digital publishing talk I cover here. It’s a new piece of software called ComiPo, a “manga sequencer,” and the idea is that [...]
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This article was posted on October 26, 2010 under the category Uncategorized, and covers the following topics: Comics, ComiPo, Manga, Manga Sequencer, Patrick Macias, Technology
Can someone please explain to me what the hell DC Comics is thinking when it comes to the promotion of its Vertigo imprint? Vertigo is the home for creator-owned mature series over at DC, and its currently on a roll with a good number of great regular series (DMZ, iZombie, Northlanders, Sweet Tooth), as well [...]
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This article was posted on September 27, 2010 under the category Comics, and covers the following topics: Comics, Comixology, DC Comics, Technology, The Unwritten, Vertigo, Yuko Shimizu
Some more interesting musings by Warren Ellis in regards to digital comics, this time using the success of his free-to-read online web comic FREAKANGELS as an example. Now combine this with iPad delivery, and you have a strong case for comic creators making the move to digital-mostly, with maybe the additions of printed collections for [...]
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This article was posted on September 27, 2010 under the category Uncategorized, and covers the following topics: Books, Comics, Comixology, Digital Comics, FREAKANGELS, Image Comics, iPad, Technology, The Walking Dead, Warren Ellis
Another follow-up post, this time to what I mentioned at the end of my look at the new Graphic.ly comic reader, and what I’d like to see happen with digital comics. Warren Ellis adds a few more thoughts on what could really make these work for indie creators. When creators who matter to me start [...]
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This article was posted on September 17, 2010 under the category Comics, and covers the following topics: Comics, Digital Comics, Graphic.ly, Technology, Warren Ellis
So far your main option for buying and reading comics on the iPad as been the Comixology app, and its suite of publisher-specific spinoffs (Marvel, DC, BOOM! Studios, Image Comics, etc.) As Warren Ellis pointed out yesterday, there’s a new challenger out — something we definitely need, competition is good — in the form of [...]
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This article was posted on September 15, 2010 under the category Comics, Reviews, and covers the following topics: App, Comics, Comixology, Graphic.ly, iPad, Technology, Warren Ellis