We’re a week gone from the Supreme Court’s historic ruling on Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, which declared that video games should enjoy the same protections as other forms of art. Like the ruling in the 1952 Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson case did for film, the Brown decision moves video games from being categorized [...]
If you remember falling to sleep while one of your parents read Goodnight Moon at your bedside, and if you also remember the first time you read Dune and found yourself wide awake late into the night with thoughts of ornithopters, sandworms, and spice – well, Goodnight Dune is going to be right up your [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tom Hanks is no stranger to technological advances in entertainment, having provided voices for Pixar’s Toy Story movies and Robert Zemeckis’ creepy CGI Polar Express, but his new project sounds like a whole ‘nother thing altogether. Deadline Hollywood is reporting that Hanks’ Playtone production company is working on something called Electric City, described as a [...]
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).
ComiXology is celebrating one year of digital comic distribution today in a way that offers its users many happy returns.
So, you’re so excited about the Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World movie that you spent yesterday downloading both the soundtrack and score (My recommendation: Make sure you grab the Sex Bob-Omb tracks, at least), and playing the videogame, but you haven’t actually read Bryan Lee O’Malley’s original graphic novels yet? Fear not, late adopter; there’s an app for that.
Here’s something for the comics conspiracy theorists amongst you: DC Comics’ iPhone/iPad app no longer offers any titles from the Vertigo line, although they’re still available on ComiXology’s own app.
Can’t wait until Friday’s release of Christopher Nolan’s Inception to finally learn what’s going on in the enigmatic dreamworld thriller? Yahoo Movies have made sure that you don’t have to – well, kind of – with a special full-length preview comic, Inception: The Cobol Job.
The downsizing/closure of DC Comics’ webcomic imprint Zuda Comics last week caught many by surprise – Not least of whom, many creators who suddenly found that their strips had disappeared along with the Zuda website. Now, digital comics company Graphic.ly and online art community deviantArt are teaming up to offer an alternative outlet for those creators.
