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Kick-Ass goes digital
Marvel has made single issues of “Kick-Ass,” by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr., available for download on the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch via the Comixology, Iverse and Panefly applications. PSP...
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C2E2: SpongeBob Squarepants, Archie to join Comics4Kids app for iPad, iPhone,...
Archie Comics on the iPad At the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2), comiXology announced a Comics4Kids app for the iPhone, iPad and other mobile devices. Designed for children 9 and...
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Will iPad lead fans back to printed comic books?
Marvel Comics' iPad app. Iron Man, Spider-Man and the X-Men have become movie stars in the past decade, but their original home was comic books. While comics showed growth in the direct-sales market of...
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ComiXology launches beta of Web-based comics app
comiXology has announced it is extending its popular mobile comics-reading application, Comics by comiXology, to the web. Fans will be able to view comics bought in the original app online. Using...
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DC Comics goes digital with comiXology, PlayStation Network
DC Comics has announced a digital platform, kicking off today, on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, as well as a second app for the PlayStation Network. “Today’s launch provides an additional...
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War of the Supermen 0 available via comixology
DC Comics has released “War of the Supermen” No. 0, this year’s Free Comic Book Day book, on the comiXology platform. It’s available via iPhone or iPad, or on comixology’s Web browser. Written by...
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Noir, Old West meet in “Red Plains” comic
WORD BALLOONS Writer Caryn A. Tate takes a noir-inspired trek through the Old West in “Red Plains,” a Web comic available via Graphic.ly and MyDigitalComics.com. Tate aims for her Western to have an...
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Get the best-selling comic of all time, X-Men 1, digitally — provided you...
Marvel Comics has added “X-Men” 1, from 1991, to its digital comic app. Written by Chris Claremont and drawn by Jim Lee, this comic – which was released with 5 different covers – shattered all sales...
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Diamond Comics Distributors, iVerse team up for digital comics plan for comic...
DALLAS — The 2011 ComicsPRO annual members meeting has yet to officially begin, and already the first announcements that will affect comic book retailers are beginning to hit. The first is the...
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ComicsPRO Annual Meeting 2011 first thoughts
DALLAS — Despite the abnormally frigid temperatures in Dallas today, this year’s ComicsPRO Annual Members Meeting looks to be the best-attended yet. Prior to the preview night, several retailers met...
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Valiant Comics to return in 2012; former Marvel CEO is chairman
A news release from Valiant Entertainment announces the company’s plans to return with print and digital comics in 2012. Former Marvel CEO Peter Cuneo has become chairman of Valiant. Gavin Cuneo,...
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Justice League 1 will be published in combo pack format, which includes...
The comic book news continues to come fast today. DC Comics has announced, via its DC Source blog, that Justice League 1, by Geoff Johns and Jim Lee, will be released in a new “combo pack” format....
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Retailers react to planned Valiant Comics relaunch
Valiant Entertainment, publishers of characters including “Archer and Armstrong” and “X-O Manowar,” have announced plans to return with print and digital comics in 2012. Oklahoma comic-book retailers...
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SLG Publishing celebrates 25th anniversary, starts new digital initiative
San Jose, Calif.-based comics publisher SLG Publishing celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2011. SLG has published diverse works from “Milk and Cheese” to “Halo and Sprocket” to “Johnny the Homicidal...
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ComiXology adds IDW
IDW and ComiXology have teamed up to bring the IDW library to the comiXology app. Titles including Transformers, Star Trek, and Locke & Key will be available. Click past the cut for the full...
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ComiXology tops iPad apps top-grossing list for six Wednesdays
Comics by comiXology has topped the iPad charts for six Wednesdays in a row, according to a news release from comiXology. “When have comic books, not comic book movies, not comic book merchandise, but...
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Kindle Fire demo; Avengers poster; Conan giveaway and Roy Thomas interview
Matt and Kyle take a look at the Kindle Fire’s options for comics; the Avengers release new posters; and Roy Thomas talks about Conan the Barbarian in this week’s comics podcast. FIRE AWAY The Kindle...
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Marvel Comics inks deal with comiXology on digital single issues
Marvel Comics and comiXology have announced that English-language single-issue digital editions of their comics will go on sale exclusively through comiXology. Marvel’s characters include the...
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“Classics Illustrated” comes to iPad
Trajectory, Inc. announced in a news release that more than 120 digital graphic novels from the “Classics Illustrated” comic and graphic novel series have been released via the Apple iBookstore....
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‘Men in Black’ creator returns with ‘Jack Ooze’
A scene from the "Jack Ooze" comic book. The creator of the comic-book property “Men in Black,” which inspired three hit movies, has returned to comics with a new project, “Jack Ooze.” “Men in Black,”...
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