Russell Willis – Publisher of Panel Nine I’ve known Russell Willis since the 1980s, first encountering him at the Fast Fiction stall run by Paul Gravett and Peter Stanbury at the now-legendary Westminster Comic Marts when he was publishing INFINITY,… Read More ›
Digital Comics
Including web comics and titles release for tablets.
SEQUENTIAL gets set to launch
SEQUENTIAL, the free digital graphic novel storefront app for the iPad created by Panel Nine, is launching next Wednesday in the UK, bringing you loads of great titles from the likes of Hunt Emerson, Gilbert Shelton, Alan Moore, Krent Able… Read More ›
Comic Creator Ian Sharman pirates his own title
Not sure if you want to pre-order Marksosia’s Hero: 9 to 5 – Quietus because you haven’t read the first book? You want to read the first book but for any one of a million perfectly legitimate reasons you can’t… Read More ›
Neil Gaiman’s Keynote at the London Book Fair – Video
Here’s Neil Gaiman‘s keynote speech at this year’s London Book Fair, in which he talks about the need to experiment with new media and pretty much sums up what we’re all thinking -no-one knows what is really going to work… Read More ›
Panel Nine’s SEQUENTIAL project backs upcoming Comica Festival
Digital comics publisher Panel Nine‘s new SEQUENTIAL is the main sponsor of the Spring Comica Festival, taking place at The Platform Theatre, Central St. Martins College of Art and Design in London this coming weekend, where, amongst other things the… Read More ›
Aces Weekly Volume 4 now online
Aces Weekly, published by David Lloyd, stuffed with creator-owned strips is now running its first week of the fourth collection of their great, exclusively digital, online comic art series which is appropriately called – Aces Weekly Volume Four! “It’s our… Read More ›
ROK Comics teams with escape artist ‘Master Merlini’ for latest audio title
Lancaster-based ROK Comics, publisher of audio comics for a range of mobile devices, have announced the release of Master Merlini, its latest interactive title featuring an all-new incarnation of the real-life, world famous escape artist David Merlini.Escape artist, crime fighter,… Read More ›
Dandy App promo video released… and here it is!
Britain’s longest-running comic has been dishing up anarchic fun since 1937 but went solely digital eaerlier this year. The Dandy app for iPad and other devices is now being relaunched and includes a regular Dandy digital comic you collect on… Read More ›
Madefire and deviantART To Launch "Motion Books" to Worldwide Audience
Digital comics makers Madefire and the art-focused social network deviantART have announced they have formed a strategic partnership to provide unprecedented access through deviantART’s creators and audience to the making and distribution of digital Motion Books ™ published with Madefire’s… Read More ›
Panel Nine releases Terry Wiley’s VerityFair on iPad
Panel Nine, digital publishers of Eddie Campbell’s Dapper John and The Certified Hunt Emerson, and has just released their iPad edition of “unheralded star” Terry Wiley‘s VerityFair. A slightly twisted soap opera with the merest dash of X-Files, VerityFair tells… Read More ›
CDComics releases ‘Robin Hood 2020’
Sheffield-based indie publisher CDComics has just launched Robin Hood 2020 – a political action thriller offering a modern take on the classic outlaw legend. How would Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men respond to the current political and… Read More ›
Great War online newspaper archive announced
In preparation for the centenary of the outbreak of World War One, UK Press Online has announced it will be launching a multi-title Great war archive later this year. They are currently compiling the list of titles and will be… Read More ›
Phoenix launches digital edition on first birthday
If you haven’t sampled The Phoenix – the lively weekly childrens comic aimed at 8-12 year olds that sprang from the ashes of The DFC – then those of you who have or were given shiny iPads for Christmas are… Read More ›
Doctor Who Adventures arrives on iPad, iPhone
(Updated, #300 info corrected): Immediate Media has just released Doctor Who Adventures for iPad and iPhone, bringing the junior Who comic magazine to digital devices. The title reaches its landmark 300th issue this week. Described as “the ultimate magazine for… Read More ›
SelfMadeHero’s HP Lovecraft titles get Kindle-fied
Fancy a slice of the macabre alongside your Christmas turkey this year? Just in time for the Yuletide festivities, SelfMadeHero – a quirky British independent publishing house committed to producing ground-breaking work in the graphic novel medium – has announced… Read More ›
Photo Review: Dandy Day At Dundee University, 2012
Announced at very short notice, the University Of Dundee held an official opening event for their new exhibition of original artwork 75 Years Of The Dandy on Saturday 8th December with the added bonus of getting five of the men… Read More ›
Digital Strip Magazine #7 on sale now
The digital edition of Print Media Productions STRIP Magazine #7 for iPad is on sale now from iTunes. Diamond UK have confirmed the print edition of STRIP Magazine #7 will be on sale in UK comic shops from Wednesday 19th… Read More ›
Hudnall, Mayverik deliver ‘Blue Cat’ for Aces Weekly
This stunning promo piece by Val Mayerik is for a new strip, Blue Cat by James Hudnall, appearing in the next issue of the digital comic Aces Weekly (acesweekly.co.uk) this month (December). In the story, Cindy Sparks is a 16… Read More ›
Egmont expands its digital collections with Misty, Battle and Scream stories
Egmont UK’s Classic Comics imprint was created to re-publish the wealth of classic comics in their archive. Four volumes of Roy the Rovers kicked off their e-comic publishing in June this year – and now they have announced the launch… Read More ›
Egmont adds Charley’s War to its digital comic collections
Egmont UK’s Classic Comics imprint was created to re-publish the wealth of classic comics in their archive. Four volumes of Roy the Rovers kicked off their e-comic publishing in June this year – and now they have announced the launch… Read More ›