Deal with Disney brings four original series, starting in 2015.
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South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive: Talking Digital Comics With ComiXology’s David Steinberger
ComiXology is changing how comics are read — and is now accepting submissions from independent writers and artists.
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Google’s Little Nemo Tribute: Maybe the Best Google Doodle Ever
Winsor McCay (1869-1934) was one of the first important creators of both comic strips and animation, and a pretty fair political cartoonist to boot. His masterwork was the Sunday comic Little Nemo in Slumberland, about a little …
New York Comic Con: Dim Sum Warriors iPad Comic Gives a Taste of Chinese Culture
The sold-out New York Comic Con, which claims to be the largest pop culture event on the East Coast, starts today at New York City’s Javits Center and runs through October 14. Attendees will include Kevin Bacon, Carrie Fisher, …
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Madefire’s Digital Comics Come to the iPhone
Among many other things, the iPad is one of the best ways ever devised to read comics. And one of the more interesting ways to read them on an iPad is with Madefire, an app which lets you download “motion books” — serialized …
9 Examples of Improbable Superhero Technology
Batman gets by on science, not superpowers. Some superhero gadgets, however, are a little less believable than others.
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America’s Army: The Game, the Graphic Novel and Now the Tablet App
If you’d told me a couple of weeks ago that I’d be meeting with representatives of the U.S. Army here at Comic-Con, I’d probably have been really, really confused. But I did, and it all made sense: They were there promoting new …
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You’re on the iPad, Charlie Brown!
I write to you from the San Diego, where I’m attending the overwhelming, nutty and ultimately rewarding media mega frenzy known as Comic-Con International. On Saturday night, I’ll be moderating a panel on the future of graphic …
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Going to Comic-Con? Come to My Panel on the Future of Graphic Novels
I’ve been going to Comic-Con in San Diego off and on–but mostly on–since 1988. Back then, 8000 people turned out, and it seemed like an awful lot at the time. This year, something in the neighborhood of 125,000 will attend from …
First Kindle Fire Exclusive: Superman and His Amazing Friends
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 …
DC Comics to Relaunch Entire Line, Including Day-and-Date Digital
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.
The reboot begins on August …
Emanata: Chester Brown Pays for Sex
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 …