She’s been cited by David Steinberger of ComiXology, Mark Waid and Reilly Brown of being a digital pioneer in the new kind of digital comics now gaining popularity from the likes of Marvel and Thrillbent. And now, the ultimate accolade …
Rich Johnston The internet’s original and best-known comic book reporter, Johnston has been covering the industry since he started posting his column on rec.arts.comics in 1992. His trademark mix of hard news and salacious gossip subsequently went through a number …
DC Vertigo follow through on Bleeding Cool reports about promoting Brian Wood, with pieces on the blog and placed on IGN and CBR. Who’s next, place your bets, Comics Alliance or Newsarama? MTV or Techland? This week, Bleeding Cool was …
In this issue: Godot arrives; turning your comic into an ePub; theoretical formatting for iPad/iBook; Valentine sales figures; and further Amazon drama But first, let’s sum up what’s happened in the world of Valentine since we last spoke. We got …
In this column: our shambolic and ongoing launch, Paypal worries, and the possibility of a print-on-demand collection of Valentine Episodes 01-06. We launched last week; it went… OK. Main drama was that I didn’t get the ePub formatting done, or …
She writes weekly for Bleeding Cool about the challenges of the digital comics industry, detailing her own attempts to create and innovate and list all the options open to her. it’s become quite the textbook. But she’s also an old …
Three days to Valentine going on sale, and I’ve spent most of my time in the last week dealing with this music video edit. This is where we’ll be on Wednesday: Comixology will have Episode 01 in all languages for …
We launch Episodes 1 and 2 of Valentine in nine days. I’m up to my neck in website building, as well having two music videos in post. That’s why I vanished for a couple of weeks: hectic pre-production on a …
In which our heroine tussles with the difficulties of publishing a comic in formats that were really made for plain text, and at last sorts Valentine out for Kindle, Stanza, e-Reader and iRex. Or at least she thinks she’s sorted …
Another week of high achievement here in Valentine Towers. No, I’m joking. I spent most of this week dealing with one edition of the comic: Hebrew. Turns out that US and UK versions of Photoshop aren’t down at all with …
So what’s been occurring? Well, since the last Lying In The Gutters I’ve been to two comics conventions on two different continents. In the first a war broke out between Wizard World and Reed, and in the second a war …
That’s a shout-out to J M Ringuet, who created Stolen Suns, which he reckons was the first comic formatted specifically for iPhone. He also gives it away for free, proving he is a far nobler person than me, or possibly …
(Warning: this is a really fucking long column. But, seeing as it contains an overview of all current digital comic distributors and platforms, it kind of has to be this long.) This week has not gone as intended. Here is …
Today I will be wandering Manhattan, seeing a couple of friends, popping in a few shops then flying out tonight. I’ll basically be offline. Alex de Campi has an Uncanny ValleyGirl lined up in hour and Adi Tantimedh has a …
This is one of the many dangers of IM. Send a quick note to moan to a friend about frustrations surrounding the launch of one’s e-comic, and before you know it you’ve agreed to do a column and are batting …
