Including web comics and titles release for tablets.
Marc Jackson joins the still-swelling ranks of comic creators delivering strips for David Lloyd‘s excellent digital anthoogy Aces Weekly next month. “The comic is about the adventures of a young guy, called Duckless and his friends,” says Marc. “Duckless draws the… Read More ›
ITV Studios Global Entertainment and Pukeko Pictures have teamed up with digital company BeyondTheStory to produce new digital content for an app designed to support the upcoming Thunderbirds Are Go TV series, which debuts in the UK in April…. Read More ›
SEQUENTIAL, the iPad app for digital graphic novels, has announced a Valentine treat for everyone with the news that it is to release an exclusive enhanced edition of the first ever British graphic novel True Love by Posy Simmonds, the acclaimed author of Gemma… Read More ›
Dark Horse Comics has announced that its graphic novels will be included in the SEQUENTIAL iPad app, with the first tranche of titles available now. The move makes SEQUENTIAL the first third-party digital comics app to distribute a full… Read More ›
Last year, I chatted to Calum Laird, Editor of Commando, for an article about “Charley’s War” – the seminal comic strip created by Pat Mills and Joe Colquhoun that ran in Battle Picture Weekly from 1979 until 1985. We… Read More ›
SEQUENTIAL and British independent comics and zines publisher Avery Hill Publishing have just announced the launch of a number of Avery Hill comics and graphic novels as digital editions, exclusively available via the SEQUENTIAL app for iPad, a platform which is… Read More ›
Here’s a quick round up of short comics news items that have caught our eye on Twitter and other social media over the past few days… • The Hemel Gazette reports that veteran artist Fred Jefferies, 85, a cartoonist since 1962, has created… Read More ›
2000AD has announced that its app for phones and tablets is now available on Android devices! This week the legendary British anthology comic unveiled the app, available to download through the Google Play store, which means that 2000AD, Judge Dredd Megazine,… Read More ›
The Beano has launched its first fully interactive story app Dennis & Gnasher Adventures!, voiced by Chris Johnson from hit CBBC show Dennis & Gnasher. Developed in partnership with LivoBooks, the Dennis & Gnasher Adventures! app the app is available across… Read More ›
There was some good news for comic creators who sell e-comics via their web sites over the Christmas period thanks to the EU VAT Action Group. As a result of their sustained and hard fought campaigning, HMRC has agreed that, for… Read More ›
Digital comics distributor SEQUENTIAL will be a huge winter sale right now, with 50 – 80 per cent off the print RRP on books… A perfect way to populate the iBooks section of your shiny new (or spruced… Read More ›
Issue 7 of the digital anthology 100% Biodegradable – edited by Dave Hailwood and John Kirkham – is now available to buy on Comicsy or Drivethru for just 69p/$0.99. Along with your usual smattering of brain munching goblins, boneheaded barbarians and… Read More ›
The Charlotte Corday adventure London Calling, published by Timebomb Comics, has just been added to the ROK Comics digital app for iPad, taking its place alongside Iron Moon, which was previously published in print by Print Media. Written by… Read More ›
Wolverhampton-based audio comics publisher ROK Comics has revamped its ‘aggregator’ app, which brings together all its ROK Comics – and titles from a number of independent publishers – in one place for iPad and iPhone users. The app is the… Read More ›
SEQUENTIAL, the boutique graphic novel app for iPad, has announced the digital release of Metronome, the 64-page experimental graphic novel by comics legend Bryan Talbot. Metronome was created by Bryan in 2008 under the pseudonym of Véronique Tanaka. It… Read More ›
Writer Stu Perrins (Prime) and artist Nick Gonzo (The Tree) have a new comic out via DriveThru Comics: When The Circus Comes To Town, a horror comic starring their super spy Harvey Spig. In the dark dank cruel part of… Read More ›
The Psychedelic Journal of Time Travel – Volume 4 Edited by Owen Watts and Geoffrey Crescent Cover Art by Alex Ronald Released at the Melksham Comics Festiaval earlier this year the latest The Psychedelic Journal of Time Travel is an… Read More ›
Touchpress and Hodder Books have just released the second trailer for their new grahic novel-style app Think Like Churchill, which features some impressive art work from Jamie Huxtable. The trailer, narrated by Boris Johnson, reveals more about how the app… Read More ›
Limited to a run of only 500 copies, a small number of the special Electricomics booklet, originally produced for the team’s appearance at Thought Bubble Festival 2014 in Leeds, are now on sale online, along with a set of seven Electricomics… Read More ›
Digital web comics platform Tapastic – which hosts web comics by some British comic creators, including myself, as well as many more from around the globe – has announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Webtoon Live, a grassroots… Read More ›