As the tables are cleared away and the volunteers, artists, writers and local traders head off for a post-convention tipple, we look back at how Glasgow Comic Con 2015 fared… Organised by Black Hearted Press and spread over three sites,… Read More ›
Digital Comics
Including web comics and titles release for tablets.
Beano becomes first comic to join hotel-focused digital download service
Gold Key Media has announced the addition of their first children’s comic, The Beano, to their innovative Media Box, a digital download service offered in hotels across the globe – meaning fans of the weekly comic won’t miss out on… Read More ›
British Comic Fanzines Digital Archive in the works
For several months now, British comics fan David Hathaway-Price had been gathering and scanning every British comics fanzine that he’s been able to buy or had loaned to him. His aim is to create a Fanzine archive / repository, celebrating… Read More ›
Marvel strikes new digital distribution deal with Comixology, Kindle editions announced
Marvel, comiXology and Amazon have announced an expanded and renewed exclusive relationship to distribute and sell Marvel’s digital comic books across the comiXology, Amazon and Marvel Comics platforms. This newly expanded relationship will continue Marvel’s single issue digital comic books… Read More ›
SEQUENTIAL re-offer free TCAF digital anthology featuring Hunt Emerson, Kristyna Baczynski and more
Digital comics publisher SEQUENTIAL are making this year’s Toronto Comic Art Festival anthology free again for a limited time, featuring great British comic creators like Hunt Emerson and Kristyna Baczynski. Earlier this year, the SEQUENTIAL digital graphic novel app for iPad and The Toronto… Read More ›
Lakes Festival’s “Lost in Space” anthology winners announced at Lancaster Comics Day
Last year, the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, in conjunction with Titan Comics, ran a competition to find undiscovered talent with a “Lost in Space” theme – and the winners were announced today at Lancaster Comics Day by the… Read More ›
Lew Stringer’s Combat Colin Returns in Aces Weekly
Aces Weekly – the multi-award-winning, exclusively digital comic art magazine published by David Lloyd – is out now, complete with an all-new Combat Colin story by Lew Stringer. The welcome return of the crazy gun-toting hero, first published by Marvel… Read More ›
IDW relaunches digital comics offering in partnership with Madefire
IDW Publishing, a pioneer in digital comics, has launched its next-generation of comic apps for Apple iOS. These new apps were produced in partnership with the premier iOS app developer, Madefire, the company established by a group of creatives that… Read More ›
SEQUENTIAL releases Free Freak Brothers Guide
SEQUENTIAL, the digital graphic novel app for iPad, is celebrating the 75th birthday of Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers creator Gilbert Shelton with a free digital guide. For those of you unaware (a doubtful idea!) The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers is a series… Read More ›
Webcomic Spotlight: Vanguard by Dan Butcher
Written by Dan Butcher & Gary Cohen Drawn and created by Dan Butcher View it at: www.VanguardComic.com The Story: Vanguard is the story of a team of genetically enhanced meta-humans employed by the British government to protect… Read More ›
Panel Borders: TorsoBear, Cogs & Claws
Continuing a month of shows about creators whose work sits in the middle ground between ‘mainstream’ and independent comics on Britain’s only over the air regular show about comics, Alex Fitch talks to creator Brett Uren about his graphic novel series TorsoBear, a… Read More ›
2000AD artist Gary Crutchley joins 100% Biodegradable line-up
Comic creators Paul H. Birch and 2000AD‘s Gary Crutchley join the line up of the quarterly digital anthology 100% Biodegradable next issue, the title edited by Dave Hailwood and John Kirkham that also features the ongoing WarWorldz Universe story “Death… Read More ›
SEQUENTIAL’s free Toronto Comic Art Festival anthology still available
The official Toronto Comic Art Festival 2015 Digital Comics Anthology is completely FREE to download, and exclusive to SEQUENTIAL… but it’s only available until Monday 11th May 2015! Offering over 50 pages of free, brand new comics from… Read More ›
2000AD goes DRM-free for digital comic fans
You can now read 2000AD – in DRM-free digital – wherever you are! 2000AD is giving its readers DRM-free copies of graphic novels and comics, even if they buy them through the legendary comic’s iOS and Android apps. All digital purchases (both… Read More ›
British Comic Shop Releases (22nd April 2015) – Time for some Lovelace and Babbage!
Here’s our list of both British and US comics on sale this week in comic shops (from Wednesday 22nd April 2015), complementing our monthly list of British graphic novel releases (April 2015 release list here). Top pick this week has… Read More ›
Webcomic Review – World of Grey
Written by Bobby Lucenti Art by Brian Vander Webcomic available for free at www.worldofgreycomic.com The Story: Waking in a world far advanced than the one he remembers and bound with a highly advanced exoskin of unknown origins and seemingly… Read More ›
Is Anyone Reading Digital Comics? London Book Fair aims to find out…
In the UK, the impact of digital migration on the graphic novel market has been less pronounced than in other areas of the book industry. This is often attributed to graphic novel readers’ attachment to print: nothing, you’ll hear… Read More ›
Free British comic anthology OFF LIFE seeks new blood
The latest issue of the free street comic OFF LIFE (Issue 11) may have only come out a month ago, but the editorial team have already opened submissions for their next issue (due out July) and we’re more than happy to… Read More ›
Sneak Peek: Spies Versus Satan! Markosia debuts debuts “DIS”, a digital thriller
With a release date set for All Fools Day, 1st April 21015, Markosia Enterprises have announced the digital publication of DIS, a five-issue satanic conspiracy thriller set in the 1970s London created by UK-based writer Kevin Gunstone and featuring stylish,… Read More ›
Is Print Still King in a Digital World?
Across the globe, millions of us now read comics, newspapers, catch up on the latest bestselling novels, or research work or school assignments on digital devices. Reading onscreen has many virtues. It can be convenient, save money, and enable… Read More ›