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Swipe Down, For The Men And Women Of Stēla

It has been repeatedly teased over the last year, but this week the big press releases for new digital comic book publisher Stēla went live, joining the likes of ComiXology, Dark Horse Digital, scribd, Kindle, Madefire, Electricomics, Sequential, Line WebToons and more.

Pronounced "steeler" is an all-you-can-eat subscription service with designed-for-phones layout of vertically stacked panels that can be scrolled through in a attempt to mirror how people read social media feeds.

From Editor In Chief, Ryan Yount, Chief Product Officer Sam Lu, Senior Editor Jim Gibbons, Stēla is free to download on iOS to sample, and costs $4.99 or £3.99 a month for further chapters. That's 160 pages each month. Stēla only publishes original works, releasing new chapters Monday to Friday.

The launch titles are Rome West by Brian Wood, Justin Giampaoli and Andrea Mutti, Teach by Stuart Moore and Greg Scott, Inheritance by Ryan Yount, Kidman Chan and YumikiHong, Out with a Bang by Stuart Moore, Tony Talbert, John Heebink, Chris Marrinan and Marissa Louise and Afrina and the Glass Coffin by Irene Koh, Crystal Fighters by Jen and Tyler Bartel, The Dark Divide by Haden Blackman and Michael Stribling, International Property Police by Victor Santos, 442 by Koji Stepen Saki, Phinneas Kiyomura and Rob Sato, GratNin by Ronald Wimberley, Calla Cthulhu by Evan Dorkin, Sarah Dyer and Emin Humistan. Other upcoming creative teams include Louise Simonson and an all female team.

The strips also have comments and "likes" for readers to express their opinions. That can only end well.

I feel a big review feature coming on very soon…

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