If you consider the move towards predominantly digital media to be a slow but inevitable one, recent events in the worlds of movies and comic books might make you want to reconsider that last part.
It was only yesterday that Amazon announced its new Kindle Fire, but already publishers are making announcements about products that will only be digitally available exclusively on the not-iPad tablet device. First up: DC Comics, which this morning announced 100 graphic novels and collected editions making their digital debut on Fire.
If you’ve ever been tempted to start reading comic books via digital distribution, this may have seemed like the perfect month to do so; in addition to DC Comics relaunching its superhero line with simultaneous print and digital releases throughout September, Marvel Comics has also relaunched its “Ultimate” line this month, including a simultaneous print/digital [...]
So George R.R. Martin, Patrick Rothfuss, Christopher Paolini, Scott Westerfeld, David Anthony Durham and I walk into a bar.
Unlike some (bald) people, we can’t all be at Comic-Con this year, soaking up our annual allotment of nerd sweat and “he’s-right-over-there!” celebrity sightings. As the nexus of almost al things nerd, The Con’s been a gracious host to an increasing video game presence in recent years.
The annual geekfest known as Comic-Con gets underway in San Diego!
The comic book industry may be undergoing a sea change right now—what with the second largest publisher relaunching its entire line and making them all digitally available on the day of print release—but luckily one hero is about to emerge to bring some stability to the world of four-color funnies:
It’s been rumored for months, and now it’s official: As of the beginning of September, DC Comics is relaunching its entire DC Universe line of superhero comic books with new #1 issues. The surprising part: The entire line will also be available digitally on the day of each issue’s release in comics stores.
Chester Brown’s comics memoir Paying For It came out last week, and–as it was designed to do–it’s already been raising some eyebrows. Brown’s a superb cartoonist whose earlier books include the biography Louis Riel, the autobiographical I Never Liked You and The Playboy (the latter revolving around an issue of Playboy he discovered as a [...]
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Evan Narcisse, Douglas Wolk and Graeme McMillan talk about the Strange Adventures one-shot and Kirby Genesis #0.
The end of the world has happened before, and might be happening again in a couple of months, at least in comics. It’s no big deal.
