Sentences with phrase «comics publishers»

The two biggest comics publishers, Marvel and DC, are not part of ComiXology Unlimited, but the service will continue to sell individual comics issues from both companies.

Well, D&Q was just about the last digital holdout among prestige comics publishers, but today they have joined the throngs with a full selection of books available both via Comixology and in the Kindle store.

Amazon buys its products from comics publishers for the same rate regardless of how much they sell it for.

The only publicly traded comics publishers are Marvel, DC and IDW.]

Small comics publishers have been jumping onto the digital bandwagon in droves, and the latest to come aboard is Arcana Comics, publisher of 100 Girls, Helen Killer, and Clockwork Girl,...

While the beauty of print remains a priority for many comics publishers, the audience building opportunities of digital are a tool that more and more are opening up to.

Awards Reminder: The deadline for the Glyph Comics Awards, which honor black comics publishers, creators and characters, is Thursday.

Books and manga are still the better way to reach a female audience, though comics publishers may finally be seeing the light.

Creators Colorist Clydene Nee talks about the early days of digital coloring and the nuts and bolts of how it's done, as well as her dealings with comics publishers over the years.

It's time for comics publishers and app developers to devote some serious thought to the question of how readers are going to find comics on their mobile devices.

To this day, the major comics publishers still produce these issues — though they cost $ 3 or $ 4 now instead of the 25 cents I (okay, my mom) paid for my first comic.

He's trying to explain to the interviewer (and readers) how Image Comics (and American comics publishers in general) can use diverse content to cultivate a broader, more diverse audience for their books, which will increase both the demand for and supply of creators with a wide range of backgrounds.

He has worked for all the major comics publishers in the United States, including Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Image and Dark Horse on properties as varied as Spider - Man, Supergirl, and Star Wars.

A long time ago, comics publishers realized that many readers preferred to buy longer, more expensive trade - paperback editions of comics.

Even so, comics publishers still aren't selling their wares in the form in which that audience has made it clear they want them.

«There's more plot, more character, and more high - concept craziness here in this first issue than you'll find in any three or four collected trade paperbacks from the big two comics publishers.

Red 5 was one of the first comics publishers to jump into digital distribution, and Atomic Robo is one of the first digital success stories, so when Red 5 founder...

The direct market is deep, but in order to survive and thrive, comics publishers need to go wide.

Creators Christopher Farnsworth, author of the new vampire novel Blood Oath, reveals that he's in talking with comics publishers about potential projects: «I hope to do something with one of the comic companies, and I'm talking to them.

Kiel Phegley: No clearer example of the massive divide between print comics publishers and web comicers exists than Zuda and its reception.

Companies like Graphitti Designs contracted with movie studios and comics publishers to create shirts with our favorite characters and sold them up on the walls of comic book stores and through mail - order.

Official Press Release Image Comics, one of the largest comics publishers in the United States, and comiXology, the world's largest digital comics platform, announced today the newly upgraded Image Comics...

To launch the program, Comixology is partnering with two independent comics publishers, Boom!

You can be 100 % sure that the digital comics the publishers want to sell you will be there on comiXology's site.

Heidi MacDonald talks to a number of comics publishers about their reasons for going to the convention year after year — and to one who has chosen not to.

When Amazon and Comixology first announced Unlimited last year, two of the biggest comics publishers around were conspicuously absent from the list of comics available in the read - what - you - want service: Marvel and DC.

But look at small presses and comics publishers and self - publishers and those of us simply setting up to work cheap to we can do it right and you'll find that it ain't over yet.

The new deals bolster hoopla's impressive comics catalogue of more than 10,000 comics titles from an upwards of 70 comics publishers including DC Comics, Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Valiant Comics and more.

Unlike most other comics publishers, Viz decided to go it alone, using its own branded app rather than joining comiXology; currently, the Viz app is available for iOS,... [Read more...]

Unlike most other comics publishers, Viz decided to go it alone, using its own branded app rather than joining comiXology; currently, the Viz app is available for iOS, Android, and Kindle Fire as well as on the web, and Viz manga can be purchased separately for the Nook via Barnes and Noble.

Initially, it was publishing original comics by an array of creators, including Watchmen artist Dave Gibbons, but earlier this year it announced partnerships with several comics publishers, including IDW and BOOM!

Please seek another outlet if you have a vindictive axe to grind with current or former comics publishers, editors, writers, artists, the staff of other websites, or comics bloggers.

Will comics publishers adopt that new format to avoid the monopoly now owned by Amazon?

It is well - settled that there is a growing female demographic in the comics audience, and that this demographic will become increasingly important to comics publishers in the years ahead.

Image has since gone on to become one of the largest comics publishers in the United States.

If those names sound familiar, it's because this is the second coming of Valiant, which was founded in 1988 by former Marvel editor - in - chief Jim Shooter and became one of the leading comics publishers, second only to Marvel and DC.

At the same time, a heap of comics publishers, biggie and petite, has gone digital in parallel with print — and the rest are probably planning something app-wise or thinking about it.

Dark Horse, which is currently offering 50 # 1 issues as a free download, is unique among comics publishers in that they have their own digital service; they don't sell their comics via the multi-comic platforms comiXology or iVerse's ComicsPlus (although they do make their books available via e-book platforms such as Kindle).

So far only a handful of smaller comics publishers, such as Arcana and Seven Seas Manga, have signed on formally, but Elder told LJ that iVerse has «handshake deals» with several larger names which it hopes to finalize and announce in the next few weeks.

Over the next year, Allen said upcoming releases include HB's first manga bundle, an LGBTQ bundle for Pride Month (in June), and the debut of several new comics publishers, including Aspen Comics and a yet - to - be-named «biggie.»

It was thus the first graphic novel publisher to have a full understanding and intimate working knowledge of the general book trade, even amongst the biggest of comics publishers.

As we start the New Year, we have seen a number of new series launch from independent comics publishers.

Good E-Reader: Most comics publishers have a branded app in addition to distributing their digital comics via comiXology's Comics app.

Tis the week before Comic - Con, and comics publishers are busy churning out press releases and finalizing last - minute plans.

Comics based on games draw in new readers: Games and comics have a lot in common, but the audience for games is much larger, so it makes sense for comics publishers to tap into it.

The official announcement says that «Dark Horse is now one of the most widely distributed comics publishers digitally.»

If branding and direct engagement with readers, two things many comics publishers do very well, is truly the holy grail for traditional publishers, does the comics industry offer any lessons, positive or negative, to learn from?

While some comics publishers have had success expanding beyond the limited -LSB-...]

A book can be available everywhere, but if there are no marketing resources behind it — something most comics publishers are notoriously lacking in — you're depending solely on serendipity, and that's even tougher in the digital world than it is in the physical.

Trautmann: I'm not sure it's «especially» suited to «Frost,» honestly, other than our «book» is not something that traditional comics publishers would pick up.