Did you ever collect comic books as a kid? If so, when did you stop collecting? Maybe it has to do with the cover prices increasing. Cost increase of comic books Anthony’s Notes lists the price of comics, along with and without inflation: 1990 is about the year when I waned off collecting comics. As …
No more in-app purchases for Comixology? At first I didn’t care, because I always purchsed my Comixology comics through my local comic book store’s website (that way a local shop gets a cut of my purchase). But there is bad news behind Amazon killing in-app purchases on the popular comics reading app. It signals that …
Today Amazon bought the #1 digital comic book seller, ComiXology. Last year Jeff Bezos, owner of Amazon, bought the 7th largest newspaper The Washington Post. Hmm. Digital comics. Digital newspaper. Bezos should totally do a mashup with ComiXology and The Washington Post. While I wouldn’t want to read the Washington Post in my Comixology app, …
This is the most hilarious thing all month! I think it might take the cake for funniest thing I’ve seen so far all of 2013! The 80s-style story of two gangs fighting it out also provides such a great backdrop to this gag. This is sorta like the music video for Michael Jackson’s Thriller. I …
It seems slightly redundant that DC comics would have their own app developed by comiXology. Why not just read your comics on the original ComiXology app? They state: An entirely new design and interface Easier search functionality that allows readers to find their favorite comics and characters much faster New ways to search and receive …
Comic Book Resources touched on a few new and ongoing digital comics projects in their article, CCI: New frontiers for iVerse’s digital comics. Comics Accelerator The Comics Accelerator sounds cool for how you can buy a comics in kickstarter-style, AND there is no DRM. However, the site looks WAY too much like Kickstarter. I’d imagine …
Over on my spudart.org blog, I featured 14 free graphic novels. Here’s a couple: Mr. T Pulp! Magazine Check out all 14.
As @brewsterrockit tweets, I’m very happy that one of my favorite comic strips is now in the Boston Herald. I’ve done marketing work with Brewster Rockit and creator Tim Rickard from the very start. It’s great to see it getting into more media. (note, I said “more media,” not “more newspapers). News story “‘Brewster Rockit’ …