Press Release Marvel is proud to announce that every issue of the hotly-anticipated DEATH OF SPIDER-MAN will be available day & date on the Marvel Comics app, available via iTunes for the iPad, iPhone & iPod touch. Superstar creators Brian Michael Bendis, Mark Millar, Leinil Yu and Mark Bagley bring you the most controversial comic book story of the century!
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Leaping ahead in the world of digital books, IDW Publishing is proud to announce its line of digital graphic novels, now available exclusively for the iPad. Digital Graphic Novels launched this week with six graphic novels, including Darwyn Cooke’s award-winning THE HUNTER and THE OUTFIT, and BLOOM COUNTY: THE COMPLETE LIBRARY VOLUME ONE. Each book contains all the material found in the print editions, all spectacularly formatted for full page reading on the iPad.
Press Release Pulse of Power is going “E” on February 14, 2011. Catch the E-Book version of Anne Elizabeth’s debut graphic novel at your favorite online source. From iTunes to Graphic.ly, everything is more fun on the computer. In a field dominated by men, Anne Elizabeth (AE) is one of only a handful of female series writer-creators and Pulse of Power is the first installment, which is drawn by Marcio Fiorito, in an eight-part series. Dynamite released the paperback version in the Fall 2010.
Dark Horse Comics has announced it will launch its own digital comics app in 2011 for the iPad and iPhone so fans of the comic company can download and read digital comics. Dark Horse caused a stir a month or so ago when it announced its single issue titles would sell for $1.49 per issue, instead of the more common $1.99 per issue. And if you don’t have an iPad? Readers can head over to Digital.DarkHorse.com and read digital comics on any computer connected to the Intardwebz. This is very similar to what ComiXology, Marvel, and DC already do with…
When it comes to digital comics and online purchasing comiXology created a great way to wrap a publisher’s brand and offerings around their engine. DC Comics announced the launch of the DC Digital Comics Store today, that runs off the comiXology engine. The online store allows readers to buy only DC comics through their comiXology account, which means you can read DC books on any computer with web access. While the announcement of the store isn’t that big of a deal, the bigger item that many comic book readers are not aware of, is the fact that you can purchase…
Digital distribution is changing the ways in which data can be disseminated. Accessing unauthorized digital copies of comics carries the label of “piracy” or the more politically correct terminology, “filesharing.” There are thousands of websites, forums and blogs that offer unauthorized publications, including comics. Some publishers have been aggressive in …issuing cease and desist orders and asking for their products, current and future, to be removed. Marvel Comics, the #1 publisher in the industry has been the most proactive in aggressively tackling unauthorized distribution of their material.
There’s a lot of talk about digital comics at the New York Comic Con, and Dark Horse Comics has a few ideas on what they plan on doing in market space. First up is word that Dark Horse is pricing its digital comics at $1.49 instead of the $1.99 price point that seems to have become the standard for many companies. That’s good news for fans of any of the Dark Horse titles, as the extra 50-cents can add up. The cost savings mean someone could buy four Dark Horse titles instead of three. The second tid-bit of information comes…
The final Boom! Studios digital comics announcements for the day finds the company’s digital comics on their way to the Sony PlayStation Portable via iVerse media. Later this month, select Boom! titles will find their way to the gaming system, and the company has committed to getting their entire catalog on the device in the coming months. “Making our comics available on the SONY PSP shows our commitment to making sure comic fans everywhere can experience all the great comics we publish here at BOOM! Studios,” said Marketing Director Chip Mosher. “Working with iVerse Media, we are exstatic about reaching…
Press Release Today BOOM! Studios premiered their entire collection of FARSCAPE comics on the BOOM! Studios Comics App, powered by the comiXology platform. FARSCAPE makes its digital debut with over 40 issues, including recent releases from the two ongoing series: FARSCAPE and FARSCAPE: SCORPIUS. The entire library of BOOM! Studios’ FARSCAPE comics will be available exclusively on the BOOM! Studios Comics App for the next 30 days. Widely recognized as one of the greatest sci-fi series in television history, the multi-award-winning FARSCAPE made its comic book debut from BOOM! Studios in the winter of 2008. The FARSCAPE comic series have…
BOOM! Studios has just announced that comic book fans can now have another outlet to obtain their digital comics from the company. MyDigitalComics (www.mydigitalcomics.com) will now offer BOOM! Studios’ comics online for Mac or PC readers. MyDigitalComics launches its partnership with BOOM! today with some of BOOM!’s most recent top-selling comics, such as 28 DAYS LATER, DIE HARD, the Eisner Award-nominated graphic translation of Philip K. Dick’s DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?, as well as BOOM!’s bestselling original Mark Waid penned Eisner and Harvey Award-nominated IRREDEEMABLE, companion series INCORRUPTIBLE, and supernatural thriller THE UNKNOWN among a host of others.…
Top Cow may have tapped into the one thing that will get people to accept digital comics; the company plans to give away a free digital copy of Witchblade #144 with each physical copy sold. Retailers will receive the download codes to distribute whenever they sell a copy of the fifteenth anniversary issue of the company’s main title. “An anniversary like this one was something that we wanted to throw the kitchen sink at,” exclaimed the Director of Sales and Marketing Atom! Freeman. “So, not only have we put together a special anniversary issue with origin story, pinups and more,…
Today is the day that I will stop buying print editions of Robert Kirkman’s Walking Dead. It isn’t because of the story; those who think this series is destined for a happy ending need a reality check, and it isn’t because I’m fed up with the same ol’ same ol’ that seems to be the nature of the series. The decision to drop the print edition is one that regular Spoilerites have probably already guessed – I own an iPad.
It may surprise many of you that I believe Microsoft may have been ahead of the game when it introduced the Zune and the Welcome to the Social campaign a few years ago. Granted, back then no one knew what the hell the software giant was talking about, but today, with digital comics about to bust wide open in a big way, applications like Comics by ComiXology, and companies like BOOM! Studios, DC Entertainment, and Marvel might want to revisit the Zune.
Cover Girl, a series by Kevin Church, Andrew Cosby, Mateus Santolouco and Rafael Albuquerque is available today on the ComiXology app for iPad, iPod Touch, and iPhone, and via the ComiXology site for reading on your computer. Why is this a big deal for me? When it was originally released, I actually missed an issue or two, thus throwing off my interest for the series. Before you jump up and scream, “BACK ISSUE BIN MUTHER-EFFER!” I did try to find the back issues, but as BOOM! Studios titles were not high on many shops lists of must have titles at…