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thoughtpeach:

0 Days. HIGH CRIMES is officially a real thing, no longer a figment of our collective imagination, it’s on sale and available right here.
A few things to note:
1. HIGH CRIMES is a digital-only comic from Monkeybrain Comics. It’s available exclusively thru Comixology and your 99 cents allows you to read it on your desktop, laptop, tablet or phone (where technologically applicable).
2. It’s 18 pages total, including my blathering essay and backmatter.
3. Buying with the link above (remember that?) directly from Comixology’s website sends more money our way. Buying via iTunes is fine too, though. Whatever you wanna do, we want you to do.
4. We do this book for free. The only money we stand to see from it is from sales. This is about as direct a market as you can get. No pre-orders, no running out of print, no hindrance to buying a comic from the bathroom at 3 in the morning if you feel like it.
It’s just us making our book and you buying it, sort of like the post-apocalypse economy, but without the unpleasantness of marauders.
5. If you like it, tell some people, maybe? I hear social networking is a good way to do that, if you’re into that. Also? (so pushy, I know) if you could rate it on the Comixology website, that might help too. Who knows? Basically, if you wanna help soldier the cause, we love you in advance.
Ibrahim and I met on my birthday, back in July, by a totally random set of pancake-based circumstances, and a week later we were working on the book in earnest, Ibrahim starting on character sketches while I pounded my head against a script I’d been writing in my head for the last 2 years and now had to somehow make a real thing. More than 6 months later, here we are, with No. 1 on sale the same day we’re putting No. 2 to bed. It’s been exhausting, but more than that, it’s been awesome.
I haven’t slept in like 20 hours, so hopefully that ineptly-told hard luck tale inspires you to drop 99 cents on our book, a book even I (after much freaking out and yard barfing) think is pretty good. We’re only getting better as we go.

Done deal.

0 Days. HIGH CRIMES is officially a real thing, no longer a figment of our collective imagination, it’s on sale and available right here.

A few things to note:

1. HIGH CRIMES is a digital-only comic from Monkeybrain Comics. It’s available exclusively thru Comixology and your 99 cents allows you to read it on your desktop, laptop, tablet or phone (where technologically applicable).

2. It’s 18 pages total, including my blathering essay and backmatter.

3. Buying with the link above (remember that?) directly from Comixology’s website sends more money our way. Buying via iTunes is fine too, though. Whatever you wanna do, we want you to do.

4. We do this book for free. The only money we stand to see from it is from sales. This is about as direct a market as you can get. No pre-orders, no running out of print, no hindrance to buying a comic from the bathroom at 3 in the morning if you feel like it.

It’s just us making our book and you buying it, sort of like the post-apocalypse economy, but without the unpleasantness of marauders.

5. If you like it, tell some people, maybe? I hear social networking is a good way to do that, if you’re into that. Also? (so pushy, I know) if you could rate it on the Comixology website, that might help too. Who knows? Basically, if you wanna help soldier the cause, we love you in advance.

Ibrahim and I met on my birthday, back in July, by a totally random set of pancake-based circumstances, and a week later we were working on the book in earnest, Ibrahim starting on character sketches while I pounded my head against a script I’d been writing in my head for the last 2 years and now had to somehow make a real thing. More than 6 months later, here we are, with No. 1 on sale the same day we’re putting No. 2 to bed. It’s been exhausting, but more than that, it’s been awesome.

I haven’t slept in like 20 hours, so hopefully that ineptly-told hard luck tale inspires you to drop 99 cents on our book, a book even I (after much freaking out and yard barfing) think is pretty good. We’re only getting better as we go.

Done deal.

Hank Kanalz talks DC’s Big Digital Changes [Interview]

multiversitycomics:

When DC Comics’ New 52 started, a major focus point was day-and-date digital Comixology release of all of the books in DC’s new line. This November, DC took another step forward in the digital landscape by implementing day-and-date across the rest of the major digital marketplaces.

We sat down with DC’s vice president of digital comics, Hank Kanalz, to talk about how far we’ve come and where this is going.

Click here for the interview!

Premier Pulp! #4 out now!

premierpulp:

PDF download (57MB)
CBR download (68MB)

Better late than never, eh? Our fourth issue brings you everything from government plots to a very spooky Ladybug tale to an interview with artist Colleen Coover. So hop to it and download a copy of what is probably the internet’s best free digital comics anthology with an exclamation mark in the title released this month!

To read CBR files, we recommend CDisplayEx for Windows and FFview for Mac. Make sure to leave feedback and tell your friends! You can read more about Pulp! and getting involved yourself at our website.

Cover art by Pal-El.

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powerplaycomic:

Scarlet Witch, Vision and Cyclops from AvX #10 Infinite Digital Comic.

Here’s a panel from the original digital comic by Reilly Brown, Mark Waid and Balak’s
AvX Infinite comic on sale today on Comixology! Check it out!

“It’s cool to work with Marvel on this exciting experiment in digital comics, similar to my creator-owned book POWER PLAY!” -Reilly

agentfenris:

powerplaycomic:

THE OLYMPICS ARE OVER, BUT THE GAMES HAVE JUST BEGUN!

Check out the free preview for the original digital comic series that brings superpowers to sports and brings sports to the streets!!

POWER PLAY FREE PREVIEW

And LIKE us on the Power Play FACEBOOK fan page!

This is a comic that is revolutionizing the game people! Pay attention and get in on the ground floor! More digital comics!

Post★Boy: ACCESS TO DIGITAL COMICS IS OWNERSHIP NOT RENTING »

poststarboy:

There has been debate over digital comics formats since the first pirate scanned a page and uploaded it to the Internet. Since then, we’ve had CBR files, good ol’ PDFs, and now ePub. The advent of the MP3, and its eventual ubiquity, made it seem natural to create a universal file for comics, so that consumers could download them to their computers and later devices.

Since the emergence of digital comic distributors, users have had applications to collect their purchases, but for whatever reason this has sparked the notion that comics through these services are “rented” and not “owned.” The former line of thought is because files are not easily accessible to the user.

So what?

Since iTunes became the premier digital media store, has anyone tried moving their music to another device? Apple still uses AAC format, but my guess is most users don’t care because it works on their iPhone. ePub is a universal format, but are there really many people trying to move files from their iPad to their Kindle Fire? I am going to be pointedly smug and go with, “No.” Who has time for that? It is on your device and it is working, which is all the majority of consumers care about.

I get it, some users must have options. An argument is that if a digital comics distributor suddenly folded, what would happen to all those purchases? The most plausible scenario for that would be a company offering to mirror purchases from another company’s service. Also, with a huge and growing userbase for digital comics, the likely event would just be a larger company buying the digital distributor out and integrating it into their broader service offering.

We have leapt off the precipice of cloud computing. We access our documents are with Google, our music is with Spotify and we all have iTunes accounts that are a record of everything we’ve ever purchased just in case our MacBook dies. When you buy a digital comic on Comixology, you can read it on your computer, iPhone, iPad, Kindle Fire, Android phones, and Nook. If that is a rental experience, it is a heck of a lot easier than the Average Joe trying to move those files across devices by themselves.

Note: Files actually are downloaded to your device from Comixology, so buy your hacker friends lunch if you really, really need to rip files and swim around in them like Scrooge McDuck.

What digital comics readers should really be worried about is a Minority Report future where your entire identity is tied to the Internet. Too late? Get those new eyeballs ready, Anderton.

Nighty night! Keep your passwords tight!

poststarboy:

I’ve uploaded a presentation regarding comics optimization across platforms. It is something I dubbed, modular comics. If you’re wondering where Modular Comics 1.0 is, the results of my first theories on the matter are here.

PS. I love slideshare, but wish it had all the neat transitions I created in Keynote. Please download it for all that cool stuff.

OMG I LOVE YOU! THANK YOU FOR PUTTING THIS TOGETHER!

Work In Progress: Why Infinite Comics Are Good »

ronperazza:

There is an article on ROBOT 6 by Carla Hoffman that I think brilliantly and succinctly sums up the feelings about digital comics expressed my many die-hard print comic fans.

“I considered you gimmicky and fake.”

The word “fake” jumped out at me. As if comics that exist in any…

This dynamic page design could be the future of digital comics »

Look at it in landscape and then look again in portrait mode. Keep an eye on the word balloons and where the individual frames are placed. Did you notice how they shift slightly? That is what I thought was so shiny.

SXSW 12 Marvel Presents: Infinite Comics

video thanks to Twinfinite