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Zenescope Goes 30-Day-Digital On Entire Comics Line
Zenescope, already quite prominent in the digital comics landscape, have announced that they will move to a 30-day-after-print digital model for their entire  line by the summer, and will make their back catalogue available too along with digital-only content. This will include licenced books like Charmed, creator owned work like Fly and the Fables-with-tits books like[...]
Marvel Asks Its Customers "Are You A Pirate?"
Marvel Digital Comics Universe subscribers have been asked to participate in a survey of their comic book buying habits Along the way, this confidential survey asks people if they are comics pirates, how they would like to read Marvel comics digitally and points to the way to a number of devices and means of reading[...]
DC Joins ComiXology's Retailer Website Programme
When Comixology unveiled their Digital Storefront programme in January with ICV2, placing digital comics for sale on retailer's websites, they were notable missing the Big Two, Marvel and DC, although ComiXology has a relationship with both publishers. Diamond Distribution then also presented their own similar proposal, Diamond Digital, but again without named support from the big[...]
Come Play With Dark Horse's Shiny New Toy At C2E2
And see if, in any way, it is different from all the other bloody apps around. Dark Horse will also be selling digital comics on their website  Digital.DarkHorse.com with Android and others to follow soon. 3DS Someone think about making comics on the 3DS. Don't forget, IDW will be launching Doctor Who digital comics at C2E2 too[...]
IDW Announce Announcement For C2E2
IDW are teasing the following pics for a C2E2 announcement. Any chance of 3D comics on a 3DS? Okay, okay, that;s probably a bit far. But anything less
Savage Dragon Goes Day-And-Date Digital, $3.99 Now, $1.99 Later
Savage Dragon, by Erik Larsen, one of the longest running comic books on the stands, costs $3.50. But when it went day-and-date digital last week, they discovered that Apple abhors a 50 cent piece, and only allows a 99c piece So the book would have to be $1.99, $2.99 or $3.99 Erik Larsen decided that $2.99 or[...]
Marvel Comics Hit The Android
ComiXology created the Marvel and DC Apps and getting all sorts of exclusive content, while iVerse signs up with Diamond for a digital retail solution for comics But what of the British startup that suddenly went all American on us? It seems they have just launched a comics reading App – and the first one to[...]
Top Ten Digital Comics Chart – January 2011
This is the first attempt at a digital comic book chart covering the English-speaking comics industry It is flawed – self selecting, based on recall, but it does cover Marvel, DC and IDW apps, ComiXology, iVerse, Graphic.Ly, even PDFs, anywhere you can pay to download a comic book This is the top ten (okay, top[...]
So You Want To Digitally Distribute Marvel Comics
So you're a digital comics distributor How do you get to distribute Marvel comics? Well, there are rules This is a major brand, one of the biggest in comics You need to commit. 1) First, you get what content you're given, you don't get to ask for specific comics Even if your rival has them You[...]
Ultimate Comics To Go Day And Date Digital With Death Of Spider-Man
Marvel have already announced that both Ultimate Comics Captain America and Ultimate Comics Thor will be day-and-date digital comics, made available digitally on the morning the comic sees print, ET time, and the day before the UK (although that's to change in a coupel of weeks.) Well it looks like all the Ultimate books will soon[...]
Marvel Comics Give One Year's Free Digital Comics To Veterans
The Iraq And Afghanistan Veterans Of America have announced a new reward, a year's subscription to the Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited service It's free to Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who sign up here Requests are valid until the 6th of January. The Iraq And Afghanistan Veterans Of America have announced a new reward, a year's[...]
Digital Dump – Viva Marvel!
HorseDump: Dark Horse outlines January's digital launch offerings as a Bookshelf App and a digital bookstore Wot, no Buffy? Here are the basics: Launching in January 2011, download the Dark Horse Bookshelf app from the Apple app store for your iPhone or iPad or go to digital.darkhorse.com to read comics from your laptop or home[...]
DC's Blackest Friday and Making Sense Of Marvel – Digital Dump Special
BlackestDump: DC Comics is running a Blackest Night/Black Friday special with the Blackest Night series and crossovers at knockdown digital price Blackest Night #0 can be read online for free, with all other books priced at that magical 99c price point, down from $1.99.  Of course even at that price, to get the entire 79[...]
Simon Pegg Graphic Novel Wallpaper
The Simon Pegg graphic novel (scooped here, previewed here) The Adventures Of Simon Pegg And Canterbury And The Mystery Of The Scarlet Panther And The Star Of Nefertiti And The Tablet Of Amonhotep IV, adapted by Random House from sections of Pegg's autobiography Nerd Do Well and illustrated by Gaz Roberts from[...]
Ultimate Comics Captain America Goes Day-And-Date Digital
The upcoming $3.99 four issue Ultimate Comics Captain America, will be made available digitally on the Marvel App the day the comic ships in print in the USA and the day before it ships in the UK (just for the first issue, the UK catches up with the US in 2011) It joins Ulimate Comics Thor[...]
Preview: Simon Pegg's Digital Graphic Novel
Bleeding Cool revealed the existence of this project, The Adventures Of Simon Pegg And Canterbury And The Mystery Of The Scarlet Panther And The Star Of Nefertiti And The Tablet Of Amonhotep IV, a digital graphic novel based upon the story that Simon Pegg weaves through his recent autobiography, Nerd Do Well Adapted by[...]
ComiXology To Provide Guided Reading To All Publishers And Creators
While the iPad may have introduced man to full screen digtal comics reading, as Jim Lee pointed out, many still enjoy the guided reading experience, zooming in on panels and making the story flow, that was popular on mobile phone readers. Well, ComiXology is announcing a new program to bring that experience to all digital comics,[...]
Digital Dump – Time To Pizza The Pilots!
So, who's going to be organising voting pizza parties then? StoreDump: A step-by-step guide to how peint comics and comic stores should prosper as comics go digital. Print publishers could also follow this tactic by releasing more specially-packaged material which would be attractive to collectors- and this doesn't mean foil covers or multiple covers for[...]
DC Digital Gets Its Own Website
Woo. Okay, okay, they've used this occasion to launch Dark Knight Returns, Identity Crisis, 100 Bullets, The Invisibles, Authority, Transmetropolitan and
Steve Lieber And The Cellmate Test
Mike McLarty writes for Bleeding Cool; Steve Lieber recently found himself making news by simply being a nice guy. In an article that Bleeding Cool
Rob Liefeld's Zombie Jesus Debuts
This is not a hoax. This is not a gag. This is not an imaginary story. The comic book currently being worked on by Rob Liefeld is called Zombie Jesus.
Uncanny Valleygirl by Alex De Campi #9: Valentine Sales, ePub How-To And iPad
And because you've read all the way to the bottom of this motherf*ng long column, have a free mixtape made by an awesomely talented friend of mine. Alex De Campi writes comics, publishes digital comics, and directs music videos for people you might actually have heard of. * Thanks to Canadian cartoonist superstar @VonAllen and the nice[...]
Uncanny Valleygirl by Alex De Campi #5: Be My Guinea Pigs!
I spent days experimenting with this, using Adobe Digital Editions (free – and 100% necessary if you're doing epub work) to download and check the Smashwords versions as it has no preview function While I'm sure Smashwords is a wonderful service for text, and does the best it can to be a one-size-fits-all solution, it[...]