Free Comic Book Day will be held on May 4 and will give comic book fans a chance to receive free comic books including issues from series like 'Superman' and 'Walking Dead'. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers are gearing up for a strong autumn, as big new releases from the likes of Paul Merton... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Line, the popular messaging platform based in Japan, is challenging ebook vendors like Amazon and Rakuten with a new service to download and view manga, or Japanese comic books. The company has launched "Line Manga," a mobile app for Android and iOS phones. Line's initial offering consists of... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2013-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The manga market may be smaller than it was five years ago, but a substantial fanbase remains. Publishers are optimistic that the decline has come to an end, that long-awaited digital initiatives are attracting readers, and that the manga market is stabilizing at a new, sustainable level. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Barnes & Noble may have saved most of the limelight today for in-app purchasing on Nook hardware, but it's not leaving other platforms by the wayside. Its Nook 3.4 update for iOS focuses heavily on visuals, with new support for both Nook Comics as well as "HD" magazines on Retina... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Steve Jobs biography published again, this time as a manga comic...sans superpowers or one shred of lycra. Walter Isaacson's official Steve Jobs biography is a heck of a read, but if the idea of trawling through lots of dead-tree text galls your inner geek, then you'll love the fact it's now... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Frédérique Rusch transforms Mondrian’s two-dimensional primary-colored grid into a three-dimensional space, with a subtle Charles Burns reference thrown in for good measure. It’s all wonderfully meta: The first page of this comic by Frédérique Rusch is a simple grid that you may or may not... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Printed graphic storytelling is an extension of all that has been performed for centuries across Asia, where often the word and the graphic symbol are one. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-02-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Still have an old Kindle Touch sitting around? You have some new features to play with. Despite replacing it with a brighter son, Amazon is still updating its original touch sensitive e-reader -- outfitting it with a new UI, enhanced parental controls and Whispersync for Voice, which shares... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Captain Hook becomes a Nazi and Peter Pan is a freedom fighter in the series 'Peter Panzerfaust.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Titan Comics has teamed up with comics veteran Dave Elliot on a new co-publishing venture which... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
What is the future of the comic book format? Will it go all digital? Continue its slow decline? Disappear? Or is due for a nostalgic revival like so much else? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The online comics marketplace has exploded over the past year. Here, from innovative indies to blockbuster franchise extensions, some of the best from the emerging world of digital comics. 2012 was the year digital-direct comics went mainstream. Entirely bypassing the tried-and-true supply... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2012-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Comics and magazines have been two of the iPad’s bread and butter categories since the start. Symbolia combines the two. The recent folding of The Daily, News Corp’s much-ballyhooed tablet newspaper, proved one thing: a lumbering daily operation isn’t going to make sense for a news app... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2012-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
A couple of years ago, I embarked on a quixotic quest: I gave up the Internet. Surfing, emailing, YouTube-watching—it had taken over my life, eating into time I wanted to be spending with my family, my students, and my work. I documented my four-month Internet fast in a series of articles for... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2012-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
As publishing conglomerates and technology firms become the dominant forces in an increasingly digital marketplace for the book and comics industries, opportunities are opening for smaller, more nimble independent media companies like Arch Enemy Entertainment. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Graphicly abandoned their iTunes-like comic book marketplace to develop a full suite of online publishing tools for visual storytellers. As Adrian Tomine has pointed out, the one-time subculture of comics and graphic novels has migrated into the mainstream over the past decade. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2012-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
When the digital comic Dim Sum Warriors launched as an iPad app earlier this year, married co-creators Yen Yen Woo and Colin Goh (cofounders of Yumcha Studios, an independent content developer) entered another phase of their multimedia journey. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-11-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Not that there's been any lack of ways to get Batman or Supes on your chosen tablet, between Comixology and the devoted DC app, but if you happened to need on more, the publisher announced today that it will be bringing its entire line to three prominent e-bookstores. Justice League, Batman,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon is on the cusp of launching the complete Kindle line in Japan, so it's only right that the online retailer fine-tune its firmware for local reading habits. A new version 5.3.0 update for the Kindle Paperwhite puts much of that focus on Manga, introducing options to fit the stylized comics... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]