• Busy racing between secret locations in an effort to find an internet connection that worked, we missed out on wishing Garen Ewing, creator of The Rainbow Orchid, a happy birthday yesterday (4th June) but there’s still time to enter… Read More ›
Digital Comics
Including web comics and titles release for tablets.
Tales from the Mindverse
Comic creator and Temple APA member Paul Eldridge has recently compiled a collection of the strips that he originally created on mobile comic creation service ROK Comics. Tales from my Mindverse contains strips created using the ROK Comics creator tool… Read More ›
Future Shocks Re-Worked for iPhones
For the first time ever, a selection of Alan Moore’s earliest comic-strip creations Future Shocks from 2000AD are now available globally via the Apple iTunes App Store. Alan cut his teeth writing comics for Marvel UK and on this series… Read More ›
Original Artwork Competition from Stref
Stephen ‘Stref’ White, creator of the upcoming graphic novel Milk is offering his fans the chance to own an original piece of signed artwork from the book. Join the Milk fan group on Facebook then follow the links there to… Read More ›
Paul Grist’s Big Cosmic Comic
(with thanks to “The Cap): Paul Grist, whose other credits include the fabulous Jack Staff comic, has begun to run his Big Cosmic Comic, subtitled “The Continuing Adventures of the Eternal Warrior”, as a blog. The strip is a homage,… Read More ›
Something Useful from the European Union…
— Well, sort of… it’s in beta at present but the European Union is assembling a huge online digital resource, which includes imagery from publishers as well as museums at: www.europeana. eu/portal You can search for subjects etc and results… Read More ›
Monkeying about with Young Gods!
Ground-breaking British indie publisher Orang Utan Comics Studio have released the first part of their Young Gods Online Graphic Novel onto an unsuspecting world this week, aiming to bring the title to comics fans in new — and free —… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: 21 January 2009
• Comics Bulletin have run the first review of Thunderbolts #128, writen by Andy Diggle and drawn by Roberto de la Torre, on sale today in the US, which sees Black Widow and Ant-Man engaged in covert ops aboard Air… Read More ›
Bostin Heroes seek an Artist
A British webcomic team is urgently seeking a new artist as it looks to begin its second story. “I’ve recently been writing a webcomic set in the West Midlands called Bostin Heroes,” Shropshire-based writer and small-press creator Matthew Craig tells… Read More ›
Simon Mackie’s Christmas Credit Crunch!
Tis the season for Christmas e-cards, and this one from cartoonist and illustrator Simon Mackie, creator of the Flick and Jube web comic, is one of my favourites so far… not only funny but summing up the mood of the… Read More ›
Starscape Comic Turns Magazine
For the past seven or so years, Chris Smillie’s Starscape has been a comic then a webcomic, inspired by the idea of the evolution of traditional British comics, such as 2000AD, Mighty World of Marvel, Eagle and the Victor, taking… Read More ›
New art team tackles villains for BVC’s Shades
British online comics publisher Broken Voice Comics has just published Chapters 9 and 10 of its flagship title Shades on its website (www.brokenvoice.co.uk). Written by David A J Berner, the new chapters of the comic continue BVC’s timely examination of… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: 21 November 2008
• King Features Syndicate, the world’s premier distributor of comics (including Hagar the Horrible, Popeye and more), columns, editorial cartoons, puzzles and games to newspapers worldwide, is launching Comics Kingdom, a first-of-its-kind digital platform it says provides a revenue-driving business… Read More ›
Marvel Reveals some Digital Costs
The Paid Content website recently reported that Marvel Comics plans on investing upwards of $10 million in the digital media aspect of their company, including digital comics. Despite the initial investment’s affect on their current profit loss, Marvel forecasts a… Read More ›
Peanuts for Free
(with thanks to Norman Boyd): Web site Drawn! reports United Features’ website has gone free to view, including 50 years of Peanuts. Taking a nod from the webcomics world and in response to the declining sales of newspapers the syndicate… Read More ›
Young Gods Joins the Digital Revolution
British indie publisher Orang Utan Comics Studio have made their move into the realm of digital publishing with the launch of their highly anticipated sci-fi action/adventure series Young Gods for free online. The Young Gods series, which sees a team… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: 28 October 2008
• Voting is now open for the 2008 podcast awards (www.podcastawards.com) and comics podcast Geek Syndicate has been nominated in the best entertainment category, which is great nes — the team there have done a brilliant job of promoting British… Read More ›
Temple Digital Showcase launched
The first edition of British Amateur Press Association group The Temple’s digital showcase is now available online from their web site to download as a free PDF. The 36 page magazine contains contributions from 10 members, including the likes of… Read More ›
Holden and Ewing’s Eye Candy Project Now on Sale
Paul Holden and Al Ewing’s Eye Candy comic – the world’s first comic for kids for the iphone (mentioned earlier this week) – is now on sale from the Apple Store. The first issue of the digital comic features the… Read More ›
EyeCandy iPhone Kids Comic
… an idea which speaks for itself from Paul J. Holden after his content problems with Murderdrome, so let’s let him do the talking about his new iphone app, EyeCandy, available from the iApps Store soon for 99 cents. •… Read More ›