Posted by Brigid on Nov 19th, 2007
You weren’t planning on doing any work today, were you? Because thanks in part to the Marvel thing, the internet is abuzz with news and commentary about digital comics.
Item: CNet says that Amazon will be debuting its e-reader today. According to the advance hype, it has a WiFi connection so you can get books on [...]
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Posted by daku on Nov 18th, 2007
After two weeks of the most frustrating experience with a DSL modem in 5 years I am finally back online. This means a flood of news from yours truely and the first piece to get off my chest is the newly released Kid’s Book Project from Michael Rouse-Deane. This guy might actually be in second [...]
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Posted by Brigid on Nov 18th, 2007
Anime News Network reports that sales of electronic manga in Japan totaled 10.6 billion yen, or about $95.7 million, in 2006. That’s a respectable increase over the 3.4 million yen spent in 2005. One aspect that is being watched on this side of the Pacific is how much is going to cell phones rather than [...]
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Posted by Brigid on Nov 17th, 2007
In this week’s PWCW, Ed Chavez unwraps the new service Manganovel. The Toshiba-owned site allows readers to download manga and upload their own translations. At the always NSFW Icarus Blog, publisher Simon Jones comments:
[Manganovel] promises to one day grind the bones of print manga publishers into powder, mix them with the puréed hearts of professional [...]
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Posted by Brigid on Nov 14th, 2007
Of course, it was inevitable that the Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited site would crash on its first day. Less predictable is the fact that Marvel would give the new intiative the acronym DCU, which caused audible snickers all over the internet.
Props to ICv2, which asks Marvel’s Dan Buckley, with a straight face, “Can you [...]
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Posted by Brigid on Nov 13th, 2007
OK, the magic hour has passed and the news is official: Marvel will be putting 2,500 comics online, for a price.
Here’s the deal: you pay $9.99 a month, or $4.99 a month if you’re willing to commit for a year, and you get unlimited access to the archive. Plus they’re keeping 250 comics online for [...]
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Posted by Brigid on Nov 12th, 2007
Newsarama posted a news item today stating that Marvel would unveil a subscription digital comics site tomorrow, then as I was writing this post, they took it all back, stating that the original story was inaccurate. According to a commenter, the news was supposed to be embargoed until midnight tonight, which may explain this anomaly. [...]
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Posted by daku on Nov 12th, 2007
If Family Feud were to round up all the webcomic artists and ask them what they’re top 10 wishes were getting their comic in print form would easily be on the list. Thus we are ecstatic to announce the long time awaited news of DS being released through IndyPlanet. You can now take your favorite [...]
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Posted by Brigid on Nov 11th, 2007
The New York Times Magazine has discovered Platinum studios. Writer Ben Ehrenreich seems to be fascinated by the fact that Platinum’s Scott Rosenberg made a movie deal for Cowboys & Aliens based on a few slim threads of a story—basically, no more than the title and a few character sketches, if the magazine is to [...]
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Posted by DS on Nov 5th, 2007
Digital Strips : Show 126
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We’re back and getting on schedule. It has been 3 months since I real life started interfering but this review should make up for it. We have for you perhaps one of the top ten biggest comics. That’s Perry Bible Fellowship for those of us who keep up with webcomics [...]
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