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 [...]
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 announcement this week that comiXology would be offering brick-and-mortar comic book stores an opportunity to become its “digital storefront affiliates” is probably not actually that big a deal. Digital storefronts are not often particularly useful, or well-trafficked, unless they offer something that’s unavailable elsewhere. That’s why the equivalent strategy hasn’t caught on for bookstores [...]
ComiXology, the company behind both its own digital comic store and the technology that powers similar stores for publishers like Marvel Comics and DC Comics, has solved a dilemma for loyal fans wanting to step into the future: Thanks to their just-announced Digital Storefront Affiliate program, no longer will fans have to choose between buying [...]
It’s Wednesday, which means New Comics Day in both the real and virtual worlds. But for DC Comics, their big release isn’t the final physical issue of Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne or even the digital release of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (Although, come on, that’s pretty great), but instead the launch of [...]
Well, this is definitely one way of dealing with internet piracy: Co-opt the pirates. Digital Manga Guild has announced that it is looking for “groups and individuals” to help it bring hundreds of previously officially untranslated manga to online readers. According to the newly-launched website, the online publisher is looking for translators, editors and letterers [...]
Yesterday afternoon, DC Comics sent out a press release announcing that, as of January, most of their ongoing print-comics series that had crept up to $3.99 an issue will be retreating to a $2.99 price point. An hour or so later, at the ICv2 “Comics and Digital” conference (an industry-only event preceding New York Comic-Con), [...]
Looks like Dark Horse Comics will be pushing their licensed comics hard next year. Bleeding Cool is reporting that the publisher will be significantly increasing both their Buffy and Star Wars lines in 2011, with the latter launching a new series every month for the entire year (This report has been denied by Dark Horse’s [...]
Here’s something potentially interesting: iFanboy has noticed that the most recent issue of Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead was released on the same day, at the same price point, in both digital and print versions. Not surprisingly, that leads to the question, is this a new ongoing thing, or a mistake?
Comic creator and Boom! Studios CEO Mark Waid’s keynote address at last weekend’s Harvey Awards ceremony on the subject of how the digital world impacts print publishing may have provoked an argument with Mad magazine great Sergio Aragones and curiosity from those who weren’t there to hear it, but it deserves so much more. Unhappy with the delivery of the speech itself – he calls it “I just listened to a partial recording, and while it was probably a solid double and not nearly as botched as I want to remember, to my ears, that speech was an absolute train wreck” – Waid has reconstructed the speech and shared it online.
Following Marvel Comics, DC Comics and Scott Pilgrim, Image Comics have teamed with ComiXology to launch an iPhone/iPad app for their titles, including Savage Dragon, Youngblood, John Layman’s wonderful Chew and Robert Kirkman and Todd MacFarlane’s Haunt (Kirkman’s The Walking Dead has been available through ComiXology’s own app for some time).
