Press Release Ape Entertainment, developers of the massively popular Pocket God Comics and Cut the Rope: Comic, and independent video game developer The Game Bakers are announcing a new licensing agreement to create a series of original digital comic books and graphic novels based on The Game Bakers’ chart-topping game series, SQUIDS. Available for iOS, Android, PC, and Mac, the SQUIDS games have been downloaded by more than one million players worldwide.
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Press Release ComiXology — the revolutionary digital comics platform with over 75 million downloads to date and a selection of more than 25,000 comics and graphic novels — is kicking off this year’s Comic-Con International 2012 in style by celebrating their 5-Year Anniversary and 3-Year App-iversary with a whole host of programming, a “Tweetup,” two opportunities to win a free iPad, publishing partner promotions, and, for the first time ever, comiXology will be manning a booth (#2447) in the heart of Comic-Con!
Press Release New York Times bestselling comic book creator Chris Roberson is celebrating “Independents Day” a little differently than others this year as he and co-publisher Allison Baker launch MonkeyBrain Comics, with a slate of creator-owned titles from some of the top names in the field. MonkeyBrain Comics will debut digitally first on comiXology — the revolutionary digital comics platform with over 75 million comic and graphic novel downloads to date —through a exclusive distribution agreement between the two companies.
Press Release Heavy Metal Magazine announced today that with the June 27th comic store release of their 35th anniversary book Four Horsemen Of the Apocalypse Book 1: Helldiver (ISBN: 978-1935351-49-8)they will be changing their release policy to Day and Date for all future books. Digital copies of the book will be available for purchase at www.heavymetal.com. Fans can find a local comic store via the Heavy Metal Comic Shop locator by visiting http://www.heavymetal.com/index.php?id=1946. Is your store not listed? Email russell@rightangleinc.com with the details of your location.
Press Release Kickstarter sensation Sullivan’s Sluggers, the pending graphic novel from creators Mark Andrew Smith and James Stokoe, will debut as a series of single issues with issue #1 premiering today exclusively on comiXology — the world’s largest digital comics platform with over 75 million downloads to date. Earlier this month, Sullivan’s Sluggers took the internet by storm with a Kickstarter campaign that outperformed even the most wild expectations. Now, fans won’t have to wait one more day to experience a taste of the Sullivan’s Sluggers graphic novel with Sullivan Sluggers #1 on comiXology today.
Press Release Once upon a time, after superstar artist Mike Deodato’s first incarnation as a hot artist for Marvel Comics on The Avengers, Hulk, Elektra, and other titles, Deodato wandered off to try new things. He drew some issues of Batman and Lady Death, had a whole collection of originally-published-in-Brazil “Deodato Comics” come out from Caliber Press and, most fascinating, co-created and drew the mini-series JADE WARRIORS for Image Comics. Four total issues of JADE WARRIORS were published, and the concluding issues were never published.
Now that it has been a couple of years since digital comics can be readily accessible (thanks iPad!), a number of companies have started offering digital first series and digital exclusive titles. Arcana Comics has announced it is getting in on digital comics firsts, with a number of books available on comiXology.
Many people I know are resistent to make the switch to digital books because they want to hold, feel, and smell the material that they are reading. Part of that reasoning has now been thrown out the window thanks to Paper Passion.
Earlier this week, we told you Batman would be appearing in Smallville Season 11, a digital first series from DC Comics. We pondered who was under the mask of Robin, and now we know.
Apparently 10 seasons of the Smallville TV show wasn’t enough to get Batman to show up. Now though, after following the Buffy route, Smallville Season 11 will have Batman finally show up in issue 5. Take the jump for our first look.
How does Dracula manage to take over the world? And now that he has, who fights back? This Major Spoilers review has some answers, and more questions!
Did you get the first issue of Before Watchmen? Did you read the official Major Spoilers review? Are you looking for more Before Watchmen in your life? Looks like DC has some good news for you.
What would happen if the one-percent were vampires, and the other 99 were simply part of the food chain? Then what would happen if Dracula’s son rose up to lead the world against the vampire overlords?
Press Release LEGENDS OF THE NIGHT is setting out to reinvent horror, one story at a time and the release of the latest comic book under the LOTN banner, HORRORS OF WAR, proves just that.