Sentences with phrase «about every comics app»

One thing that takes getting used to is that unlike just about every comics app, this reader doesn't turn the page with a swipe — you have to use the arrows.

Not exact matches

Teach and get taught — If you're equipped with stories about the comic strip heroes, or even have the latest iPhone app, then that attracts the young mind of the cougar.

In this interview from Print magazine's Imprint blog, Kim Munson talks about an iOS and Android app she developed called Comix Classics: Underground Comics based on Underground Classics: The Transformation of Comics into Comix, a book and exhibition on the history of underground comic - book art.

The day they released the Marvel app for the iPad, they sent out a mass email explaining that retailers shouldn't worry about the digital comics cutting into their business.

You still need to buy a comic book to get the enhanced experience, and you need the digital app on your device (powered by Aurasma) to see the panels jump off the page, strip the art down to the original penciled layouts, or hear the creators talk about key plot points through video or audio clips.

After thanking their Patron - sponsored books of The Ten - Year Turnaround, Removed, and How to Drive Your Next Car Deal, Sheridan and Jim discussed news about a new app making waves in Croatia, a surge in creativity for digital comics, changes in Amazon's pre-order policy, how KU free runs may not be as lucrative as you think, and why rented books could become a big deal.

While there's certainly a lot to be excited about with regards to the current crop of iPad comics apps by companies like Comixology and iVerse (who both have their own self - branded apps as well as ones developed alongside companies like Marvel, IDW, and Archie), the future of sequential art on the iPad — if there is indeed one — will likely lie in the ability for artists and publishers to craft works designed specifically to play toward the device's strengths.

If you check out ANN's thread about the Ipad App, Ed Chavez from Vertical steps in and explains the difficulties involved with getting digital releases on multiple devices - every device has it's own coding / programming / delivery system [so you can't just plunk in your high - res PDF for your print edition], which can sometimes be time consuming or restrictive depending on their policites [the Playstation Network one was rather icky by the sounds of it - they only want chapters, not full books, and they want the comics cut up into a panel by panel slideshow].

The app does away with some of the complaints that people had about the original service: You don't have to sit in front of your computer to read the comics (the one digital comics experience that is universally loathed), and while Marvel Unlimited on your computer is streaming - only, the app allows the user to download up to six comics to read offline.

Jason Horn's Ninjasaur is a standalone iOS app that includes a short comic about a ninja dinosaur and a little video game where you control the main character as he throws shuriken at his enemies.

Rebellion, the folks behind the British sci - fi comics anthology 2000AD, have been pretty aggressive about marketing their weekly comic digitally, with both an iOS app and direct downloads via their website.

The list starts with weekly digital Infinite Comics, featuring four 13 - issue story arcs over the course of the next year; the release of 700 free first issues for a short time; Project Gamma, technology that will enhance comics with sound; online videos about the company, including documentaries on their history; and the previously announced Marvel Unlimited iOS app.

Then they reviewed those comics and put about half of them back, but that still leaves 1,500 titles that aren't in the app any more.

At this point, almost every comics publisher has some sort of digital component, so it almost doesn't make sense to separate out digital comics, but every con can be counted on to have a few pioneering digital - first comics and apps, and hopefully there will be some boasting about sales numbers as well.

Scrollon includes a limited selection of comics, all of which are designed specifically for the app, which already makes for a smoother reading experience, but the point about the fixed width is well taken.

«When we started talking about the direction digital comics have been going — with comics being locked into apps in order to do anything innovative, or to be tied to a third - party plugin like Flash — it just seems like it is very daunting to creators.»

GoodeReader talked to David Hedgecock, CEO of Ape Entertainment, about the comic line, the game app itself, and what's in store for the pygmies of Pocket God.

In addition to the comic app, the Squids game has a free update that includes a mini-comic about Clint and Sammo, the same two characters who star in the comic, which makes for a nice little crossover.

So, if you'd like more indie comic book apps, tell your friends about Ninjasaur!

CBR News spoke with George Chen, CEO of digital comics app Emanata, to talk about the company's updating publishing apps for the ipad and iphone, designed for independent comic creators.

Did the Kobo Vox have other comic book reader apps or are you talking about comic book content acquired through the Kobo app?

There was some buzz about this last week, but now it's official: Writer Matt Fraction revealed on Twitter yesterday that Apple will not carry the second issue of his comic, Sex Criminals, and he quoted Apple's stated reason why: «We found that one or more of your In - App Purchases contains content that many audiences would find objectionable, which is not in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines.»

In our previous post about comics readers, we looked at apps that let you load comics from your own collection and from publishers who make DRM - free versions of their titles.

With the improvements to digital reading that came about with the widespread development of full - color tablets, interactive children's book apps and digital comics apps have taken off.

And the content may start to flow the other way, as Madefire is talking about bringing comics by DeviantArt artists to its iOS apps.

Viz is the largest U.S. manga publisher, and when it came time to think about digital comics, they decided to go it alone, developing first an iPad app, then a website, then apps for the iPhone, Android devices, and Kindle Fire.

It's a ubiquitous device and people are discovering comic books on the iPad in a way that they probably haven't before. Maybe we're talking about lapsed readers, people who fell out of the habit of going to comic book stores for whatever reason, and they've stumbled upon the comiXology app and got back into the habit of reading comics. And some of those people who were lapsed readers have migrated back to the print versions as well.»

There are some Nook - specific apps and publishers (Dark Horse has partnered up with them), and iTunes is aggressively trying to break in by offering a free New Avengers comic, but on the whole we're talking about Mac platforms and comiXology products.

... and it's a good one: When creators who matter to me start really thinking about the in - app or cliented digital comics form of Comixology or graphic.ly, and start doing,...

Digital comics Michael Cavna reports that Apple CEO Steve Jobs essentially accused cartoonist Mark Fiore of lying about the rejection of his iPhone app, telling attendees at a tech...

«We put out a top ten list for our Comics By comiXology App as a promotional thing, and it got blown into this whole huge thing about how independents are ruling digital comic books.

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Apple has taken an unusual approach to teaching developers about how the App Store reviews submissions, by creating a digital comic book.

About 30 % of the Kodansha comics that Voyager adapted into iPhone apps were rejected by the iTunes Store.

I hit the Marvel app just shortly after the comics became available and had about 150 of them in my download queue before I put my iPad down, but it looks like only about 50 of them actually downloaded.

So my advice would be to do this all by yourself: Publish your comic either as an app or as a ebook (Amazon Kindle store, iBook store,...) and you will pay at the most 30 %, and this 30 % means you won't have to worry about handling credit cards, doing paybacks, distributing your comic, etc., and you get very good exposure as well.

The move comes on the heels of waves of discussion online about whether or not readers who purchase their comics through apps that store the final materials on their own servers are actually buying their books or only purchasing access to a company's system.

For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, as of yesterday, Comixology removed the storefront from its digital reading app for comics on the iPad and iPhone.

First of all, I just want to clarify — usually when people talk about digital comics these days they're referring to the app - based comics such as those provided by Comixology or Graphicly, as opposed to web comics, which are internet web site based comics such as Penny Arcade or PVP.

My iPad is cluttered with single - publisher apps, and I have enough to think about already without remembering which comics are in Comics + and which are only in the IDW or Archie apps.

Conventions Calvin Reid surveys the comics scene at the Frankfurt Book Fair and comes up with some gems, such as a short interview with NBM Publisher Terry Nantier about comics he was hoping to acquire that week, and the news that comiXology is the top iPad book app in France, and among the top five in several other countries, despite having no foreign - language content.

Digital comics Hank Kanalz, DC Entertainment senior vice president of digital, talks about DC's decision to offer its single - issue comics on a variety of platforms, including Kindle, Nook, and iTunes, rather than exclusively through comiXology and its branded apps (which run on the comiXology platform): «It's not a move [away from comiXology], it's an expansion.

The app faces a similar problem to traditional comic - book stores: Consumers who don't read comics on a regular basis — but who might be interested in a specific franchise property, like Doctor Who, or a comic written by an author they enjoy, like Anne Rice — are less likely to know about their availability, since they're no more likely to download the comics apps than they are to visit a comic - book store.

Ron Marz writes about this week's «The Protectors» from Athlitacomics, and his experience translating comic pages into Madefire's Motion Books app.

Mitch Jenkins later continued to lay out the schema of things by saying that the end goal is to produce a platform called «Electricosmos» which will be the open - access platform for using tools to create interactive digital comics, in which creators will be presented with quite a few choices about what interactive elements they'd like to include, and then there will also be Electricomics proper, the app which will contain the comics created by this pilot team of writers and artists, initially, with hopefully more to come after the first wave of «example» like releases.

Andrew Bayer is a friend of mine, and he had a few things to say about digital comics pricing, specifically with regard to Marvel's iPad app.

Digital comics I talked to Beth Kawasaki, Viz Media's senior editorial director, children's publishing, about the company's new kids» comics app sticky DOT comics, which carries Pokemon manga and a variety of other licensed content.

We first wrote about Farrago Comics app for free comics in January, when they announced their deal with IDW.

Since then they've been adding more books to the app each month, including their first original comic SHRINKAGE, an 8 - part comedic sci - fi action tale about how the most unknowable battleground we face is the one within our own craniums, written by Emmy Award winning writer Rob Kutner («The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,» «Conan») and illustrated by John Lucas (X-Men, Deadpool)

If you want to see what Marvel Puzzle Quest is all about (yeah, I know it doesn't cost money unless you want to make in - game purchases, but phone storage space is an issue for a lot of people, myself included — I'm not going to download any app if it means I have to delete my collection of»80s and»90s one - hit wonders), there will be a Marvel Puzzle Quest booth (# 347) at next weekend's New York Comic Con, where the game will available to try out on tablets and PCs (though without Lady Thor, I'd imagine, as she's not being added until the Friday after).