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First Clip Of Ashton Kutcher As Steve Jobs And Josh Gad As Steve Wozniak

Posted on January 24, 2013 by Brendon Connelly

The Two Steves, talking about operating systems in the Hewlett Packard parking garage.

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The Walking Dead iOS Game Based On The Comic Book

Posted on December 1, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Well isn’t that interesting? A Walking Dead iOS game… nothing unusual in that. But it’s one that’s visually and tonally based on the comic book rather than the TV series. Walking Dead: Assault plays like a decent rescource-managed action fighter …

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Patrick Stewart Gives Another X-Men Movie The Nod

Posted on September 19, 2012 by Rich Johnston

What’s ahead for Days of Future Past? A hint…

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Five Page Comic Fails To Persuade US District Judge

Posted on September 6, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Bob Kohn, a lawyer in the current e-book antitrust lawsuit, in opposition to the Justice Department’s proposed settlement was told by the U.S. District Judge Denise Cote of Manhattan to submit his argument in five pages. He did so in …

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How To Save Money On Your iPad ComiXology Comics – For You And The Publishers

Posted on August 8, 2012 by Rich Johnston

When a American customer purchases comics via the iOS Comixology app, Apple adds almost 9% sales tax onto the final price. However, making the same purchase via the Comixology website does not incur the same tax.Even if you do it …

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The 2000AD Day-And-Date Digital Experience

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Rich Johnston

For years, Americans and Brits have been trying to deal with the tricky problem, how to sell the British sci-fi weekly anthology comic 2000AD in the USA. Because, while there is a terribly efficient distribution system that gets American comics …

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Star Trek/Doctor Who Tops The Apple iBook Charts

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Rich Johnston

That’s certainly shows the power of a license. Not only is Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who: Assimilation 2 from IDW the first monthly comic to be sold singly in Apple’s iBooks on the same day it’s out in print, …

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All Star Superman On The New iPad Ads

Posted on March 10, 2012 by Rich Johnston

According to the New iPad promotional video, kids still read comics. What’s more, they’re reading Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely comics. That can’t be a bad thing can it?

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Creating A Comic Book On The iPad

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Rich Johnston

I doubt I’ll be getting an iPad 3 new iPad, when the one I have still seems as if it can do marvellous stuff. Although I haven’t even tried to attempt the following. Jonathan Woodard writes; i only have 3 …

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Amazon Getting into TV, Netflix Want to be a Cable Service

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

This imminent new Apple Television that’s just going to merge the computer and the goggle box once and for all has been a long time coming, but it’s going to land smack on the nose of the zeitgeist, it seems. …

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Apple’s iBookstore Loads Up With New Graphic Novels

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Rich Johnston

This morning, Apple opened the Comics & Graphic Novels iBookstore section. Here’s the full list in order of popularity. The free New Avengers #1 has hit the top, followed by the reworking of Interview With A Vampire from Anne Rice, …

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It’s Not Rocket Science by George Peter Gatsis – Going Digital For Less Than $200

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Rich Johnston

Getting my comic onto the AppStore. I have been producing/publishing Canada’s first computer generated comic book ( The Black Diamond Effect ) since 1990. It is also the first comic book to be produced with nearly 100% vector based graphics! …

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Cerebus To Go Digital In 2012 – If Dave Sim Can Get Some Answers

Posted on December 28, 2011 by Rich Johnston

On the new Cerebus TV episode, premiering on Bleeding Cool, Dave Sim first talks about Darwyn Cooke and his work, with a Cerebus TV interview with Darwyn, where he talks about the potential of digital comics. And, as Dave Sim …

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Judge Dredd Vs Zombies: The Game

Posted on December 3, 2011 by Rich Johnston

It got rather overshadowed the other day in terms of new App games, what with the iPad release of A Bard’s Tale. But Rebellion, the games company that bought 2000AD and Judge Dredd because they liked them, released a new …

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DC Comics Fails Over Kindle App Availability

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Rich Johnston

That’s the tweet sent out at the end of September, assuring people as the news streamed out that DC Comics were getting into bed with Amazon Kindle Fire, that they would be able to access these one hundred digital graphic …

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Preview: The Zen Of Steve Jobs

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Rich Johnston

Forbes has issued four advance pages  of a new graphic novel they are publishing with creative agency Jess3 called The Zen Of Steve Jobs. Set in the eighties after Jobs has been exiled from Apple, in the wilderness. And the …

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Will DC Comics Drop Their UK Print Prices To Match Digital?

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Rich Johnston

In the UK, there’s no real thing as a fixed price for an American comic book. Diamond UK sell comics to shops depending on the discount they qualify for and shops price accordingly, but unlike the US where you’ll pay …

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Q: Why Do Apple Premiere So Many Movie Trailers? A: It’s All About The Phantom Menace…

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Brendon Connelly

I don’t know how Quora works, really, but I’m sure I should find out. Nonetheless, there’s an interesting bit of info on there tonight that I thought was worth passing along. Here’s the Q: How did Apple.com become the de …

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