Tag E-Publishing
How almost to: Embedding comics
Gareth Hinds is a very accomplished artist (and former Xeric winner) whose comics adaptations of classic literature have found a home at Candlewick Press. His full color Odyssey adaptation just came out, and there's a nice story about it in today's PW.
While we were looking [read more]
ICv2 Digital & Comics Conference audio: Print vs Digital
Another jam packed and fascinating discussion among people who have a lot to say. NYC participants:
Print vs. Digital–War, Co-existence, or Collaboration
Publishers, retailers, and others on how the digital revolution will impact on print sales.
- Ted Adams, CEO of IDW Publishing
- Eric Beaulieu, Vice President Premedia, Transcontinental Transmedia
- Dave Bowen, Director [read more]
ICv2 Digital & Comics Conference Audio: Creativity and Digital
This is easily one of the most interesting panels I have ever participated in. [read more]
ICv2 Comics & Digital Conference Audio: Where we are and where we’re going
Another audio file of the first panel at the ICv2 digital comics conference. This one brought together almost all of the emerging industry's major players for a fascinating conversation. As opposed to previous panels where there seemed to be questions over whether this was even a viable business [read more]
NYCC: Disney Publishing announces digital plans
Kind of lost in the scrum at New York Comic Con, even Disney was getting in on the digital comics bandwagon. At the ICv2 Comics and Digital conference, Dario Di Zanni had some pretty confidant things to say about the future of ebooks. Disney has been doing [read more]
Digital News: LongBox launches on ADAM; goes to v. 1.1
LongBox, the long brewing desktop app for purchasing digital comics, has just gone to version 1.1 and announced that it will be bundled with Norton Ink's upcoming ADAM tablet, which features a Pixel Qi screen which enables it to be red in even bright sunlight. PR on the [read more]
Dark Horse announces $1.49 comics via new app
At yesterday's Dark Horse panel, more details of their digital initiative were announced. It will be proprietary, available on every web browser, and sold for iPad and iTunes. (However, Apple only accepts prices that end in .99 -- one of the controlling things that folks were [read more]
Dark Horse offers in-store digital downloads
Announced only via tweet from retailer Chris Butcher at this morning's Diamond retailer's breakfast. Dark Horse is announcing exclusive in-store downloads for those buying their digital comics, which will be priced at $1.49, according to Milton Griepp yesterday. [read more]
ICv2 conferees happily go digital
Moving forward with digital was the theme of today's ICv2 Comics and Digital conference, which kicked off New York Comic Con with an afternoon of panels and idea sharing. And for those who are moving, they are doing so with zeal and purpose. As opposed to previous such industry gatherings, [read more]
Report: Millennials rely on Wi-Fi to mate
Not Comics, but it does shed some light on behavior. While we're rounding up some scientific jargon, GigaOM reports that millennials need Wi-Fi the way previous generations needed fresh air and vitamin C. (Millennials are here defined as 17-29 year-olds.) [read more]
One self-publisher’s digital survival plan
Filipino comics artist/self-publisher Gerry Alanguilan (Elmer), was supposed to deliver an address at a symposium called "Future of the Book" but he was forced to bow out, so instead he posted his speech for all of us to read. While reading the whole thing is the best [read more]
Mark Waid: What he meant to say about the digital reality
Mark Waid has reconstructed his controversial Harvey night speech and made what he was getting at much clearer:
[read more]“Yes, Professor Waid, you hippie freak, sharing is all well and good, but how does that pay my bills?”
ICv2 Digital Comics Conference announced for New York Comic-Con
Everyone’s talking digital comics, and they’re going to get a thorough investigation in October as part of a one-day ICv2 Comics & Digital Conference, to be held Thursday, October 7, right before this year’s New York Comic-Con. In previous years, ICv2 has sponsored graphic novel conferences before NYCC and also [read more]
Image launches digital comics app via comiXology
ComiXology app for iPads, iPhones and Ipods. IDW has a bunch of storefronts via iVerse, while Dark Horse mostly sells comics through their own standalone apps. New Image comics are selling for $1.99, which is about industry standard. Initial offerings include CHEW, YOUNGBLOOD, and SAVAGE DRAGON. In case [read more]
ROBOT 13 hits 100K downloads mark
ROBOT 13, the stylish steampunk fantasy comic by Thomas Hall and Daniel Bradford, has just become one of the first independently produced comics to push past the 100,000 download mark on iTunes and Android, according to a press release from e-distributor Robot Comics.
The app is [read more]
Archaia goes exclusive with Graphic.ly for digital
Studios and the digital comics provider Graphic.ly have announced an exclusive agreement, Graphic.ly's Micah Baldwin explains in a newsletter:
We are excited that Archaia has decided to work with us exclusively! Over the past couple of months, PJ and I have had a lot of conversations about the benefits of presenting [read more]
SD10: The Piracy panel
by special correspondent Bruce Lidl
Techland Presents: Comics and Digital Piracy
A “hastily thrown together” panel on the last day of the Con made for some lively discussion about the realities and moralities of pirated comics.
Moderator Douglas Wolk from Techland.com, a long time music critic, is concerned that the comics industry [read more]
SD10: Digital comics now!
by special Beat correspondent Bruce Lidl
Late Thursday afternoon, as Comic-Con began to really hit its stride, as the shift from panel and show floor to party mode started to occur, the second annual “Digital Comics Now!” panel, hosted by Chip Mosher of BOOM! Studios got underway. In some ways the [read more]
Tonight to do: Digital Panel: Abs & Apps @ Meltdown Comics… – Eventbrite
If you are not going to the Big Show or want to get a head start on the activities, here’s an interesting-sounding event, Meltdown’s Digital LA – Digital Panel: Abs & Apps . A ticket is $25 but includes networking and schmooze time. The speaker lineup alone is impressive:
Scheduled speakers [read more]
News: Larson/Pantoja, Anime Expo, more Marvel digital, Humanoids
Hope and Tintin, Anime Expo's diminished manga presence, and what is Marvel thinking of NEXT for their digital publishing? [read more]