Don’t Miss the Devastator’s Hilarious Story Bundle
Bundling is now as popular as it was in Colonial times—even if it meant something a bit different then. Anyway, nowadays it means putting together "bundles" of ebooks or videogames and letting you pay...
Graphicly Folds – Will Creators be Paid What They’re Owed?
This week saw digital comic publisher Graphicly announce that they have been acquired by Blurb, a book publisher who will be subsequently folding the comics section of Graphicly. The question, however, is if the...
Bandette’s Coover and Tobin Talk about Digital Comics Going into Print [Interview]
One of the real breakout comics of 2013 was Bandette, from the husband and wife team Colleen Coover and Paul Tobin. A digital comic that is creator-owned and sold by Monkeybrain for only 99¢,...
Top Shelf’s Chris Ross on DRM-Free Graphic Novels and Print-Digital Bundles [Interview]
By Bruce Lidl
Indie comics publisher Top Shelf announced yesterday that they will be selling a selection of their digital titles, without any DRM copy protection technology. Joining Image in the trend away from DRM...
Kindle and WB team up for legal, profitable fanfic
Well my inbox this morning was stuffed with people telling me how big an announcement this is: Basically, Amazon has licensed Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars and Vampire Diaries from WB's Alloy division, and...
Spotlight on the comiXology Submit Experience with W. Maxwell Prince
ComiXology Submit lauched on March 6, 2013, as a platform for independent comics creators to upload their comics, wait for approval, and if accepted, market their comics directly through ComiXology at a 50% profit...
INTERVIEW: Larry Hama is a Historian of Horror in THE STRANGER
Sitting down to describe Larry Hama’s career it a pretty overwhelming task. Do you talk about his start in comics at the age of 16, his service in Vietnam, his work as a penciller...
New Devices and the Digital Comics Landscape
by Bruce Lidl
The last few weeks have seen a number of big developments in the digital comics realm, from the highs of Marvel’s big announcements at SXSW to the lows of JManga’s imminent closure. Comixology continues to distance...
ComiXology’s game-changing Submit portal has opened
Well, digitally publishing your comic for mobile and tablets just got as easy as an upload. ComiXology has unveiled its Submit portal, which allows creators to upload their comics and have them transformed to...
ECCC: Monkeybrain Announce Free Comic: Frost
A quick update from Emerald City Comic Con, a convention which you can only access by jumping into your nearest hot air balloon and flying directly into a cyclone. Monkeybrain's Allison Baker is at...
INTERVIEW: Ron Perazza’s Think Tank!
Ron Perazza has been at the forefront of new digital comic projects for years, with his work at Zuda and ComiXology helping to pave the way for digital comics as we now know them....
INTERVIEW: Allison Baker on Year One of Monkeybrain Comics
2012 was the year we saw Marvel relaunch, DC reboot, Image rise, and Valiant return. And yet perhaps one of the biggest success stories of the year was the founding of Monkeybrain Comics by...
