With abject apologies to my old friend, artist Liam Sharp who is integral part of the project team (it’s been a busy old month), the launch of the Madefire Motion Book Tool to create digital comics with added animation and… Read More ›
Digital Comics
Including web comics and titles release for tablets.
Plok! From video game star to comic strip hero!
Veteran video game designers The Pickford Bros have released an eBook of the first volume of their weekly webcomic, Plok The Exploding Man, starring the hero of their 1993 SNES game. At the end of his Super Nintendo game… Read More ›
Jamie Smart’s Whubble Gets A Sponsor
There’s good news for fans of Jamie Smart‘s web office-woe-oriented comic, Whubble, this week with news that he’s secured US company WorkCompass as a sponsor for the strip. Pity poor Pete Whubble, the reluctant hero of Jamie’s strip, which he… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Sequential Birthday Competition, Doctor Who and Lenny the Lettuce!
A quick round up of short news items we think you’ll be interested in. Don’t forget I also plug a lot of British comic happenings as they come in on Twitter as well as here… • In case you’ve been… Read More ›
Kickstarter success for latest “Widdershins” collection – in just 14 hours
Comic creator Kate Ashwin is celebrating after her latest Kickstarter to raise £3500 to fund the newest volume of her Victorian-era adventure stories, Widdershins, reached that goal within 14 hours of going online – even though the campaign will run until 27th August! All of the… Read More ›
Warren Ellis and Michael Allred collaborate on official “Story of Bacardí” graphic novel
Yes, we did a bit of a double take too when we heard this, but it’s true. Two of the most iconic names in the world of graphic novels – writer Warren Ellis and artist Michael Allred – have… Read More ›
Digital comic sales on the rise, reaching estimated $90 million
The market for comics and graphic novels in the United States and Canada reached $870 million at retail last year, according to a new estimate prepared jointly by comics business news site ICv2’s Milton Griepp and Comichron’s John Jackson Miller… Read More ›
32 Years in the Making! Phil Elliott releases “Tales from Gimbley” collection
After 32 years in the making, Phil Elliott, one of the first “alternative” British artists I encountered in the 1980s through the pages of Escape, has just released a complete 184-page collection of his long-running “Tales from Gimbley” comic… Read More ›
Five Alive! 100% Biodegradable is back…
Issue 5 of the brilliant 100% Biodegradable, a 30-page colour and black and white bi-monthly digital science fiction comics anthology, is bursting with self contained strips, dragged kicking and screaming from some of the most deranged minds working in the UK… Read More ›
ComicBlitz enters digital comics fray, described as A “Netflix For Comics”
Netflix. Spotify. Both have transformed the way many people consume film and music. Now, for the first time ever, claims a new digital comics distributor, comic book fans will have unlimited access to vast libraries of their favourite media for just… Read More ›
Pat Mills launches new digital comics label, Millsverse
Pat Mills, creator of 2000AD and writer of numerous successful comic series such as Charley’s War, Slaine, Accident Man, Nemesis, Marshal Law and Requiem Vampire Knight, has launched his digital label, Millsverse, on the Comixology Submit digital platform. “I’m starting with… Read More ›
Cup of O – Small Press Reviews
Before diving into some reviews I just want to give a shout out to on-going webcomic Warm Cube by the masterful Neil Ford – an absorbing and astounding weekly odyssey which is as absorbing as it is gorgeous. See the web links at… Read More ›
New writer recruited for Commando
The latest issues of DC Thomson’s Commando, on sale today, 19th June, feature a new author — Kris Roberts — to the title, and, in a strange twist, one of the reprint editions features the first outing of an… Read More ›
Gold-plated Ricky Rouse comic goes on sale from SelfMadeHero
Ricky Rouse Has A Gun, written by London-based Jorg Tittel and drawn by John Aggs, is a madcap title getting some right royal treatment from publisher SelfMadeHero in the form of a limited, gold-plated hardback UK edition only be… Read More ›
“Lion and the Unicorn” from Ash Pure wows its fans
The Lion, a forgotten war hero, the indestructible man with a death wish. The Unicorn, a gifted psychic knight, she is the girl who wants to save the world… That’s the “one line pitch” for The Lion and the… Read More ›
Jim Alexander and Mark Bloodworth’s “Ripper Legacy” re-published
Ripper Legacy, a 90-page graphic novel written by writer and publisher Jim Alexander, first published by Caliber Comics, is now available as a digital download on Drive Thru Comics. The murders begin and they’re reminiscent of the notorious Jack the Ripper… Read More ›
Jamie Smart’s “Moose Kid Comics” debuts next week
Comic creator Jamie Smart has announced his long-gestating humour project, Moose Kid Comics, will debut next week – and he’s running teasers for the taster of the digital title on Twitter over the next week. The comic itself will be… Read More ›
D-Day marked in new Commando tale
Here’s details on the latest issues of DC Thomson’s Commando, on sale from Thursday 5th June in UK newsagents and for digital devices. There’s another great-looking World War One story from Keith Page, while D-Day – which sees its 70th… Read More ›
Alan Moore backs digital comics creation app project, Electricomics
Britain’s best known modern comic book writer Alan Moore is leading a research and development project, Electricomics, to create an open source app enabling digital comics to be made by anyone, a digital comics project that will include the publication of… Read More ›
Convict Soldiers, Snipers and Viking Warriors in action in new Commandos!
Here’s the full intel on the latest issues of war comic Commando from DC Thomson, on sale today in all good newsagents and for iPad and iphone. Commando No 4707 – Target America Story: Alan Hebden Art: Manuel Benet Cover:… Read More ›