This March, ComiXology dominates SXSW Interactive with a whole host of activities including: sponsoring the SXSW Geek Stage; a special panel; happy hour;
free comics offered throughout the event; and handing out $ 150,000 worth of $ 5 Amazon Appstore credits toward comiXology content at comiXology's SXSW Gaming Expo booth # 125 & 127.
Not exact matches
May 2, 2014 • Our
comics blogger, Glen Weldon, tees up all 57 of the
offerings for this year's
Free Comic Book Day and tells you which ones to try to lay your paws upon.
Amazon is also on the news, with their new venture into eCommerce with an arch-rival and Kindle Japan now
offering free previews on manga and
comics.
Marvel Unlimited, Marvel's digital
comics subscription service, is
offering a
FREE MONTH of reading for new monthly members!
Marvel Unlimited is welcoming the Star Wars Legends universe of digital
comic books and to celebrate this, for a limited time, Marvel Unlimited is
offering new and returning subscribers their first month
free.
John Jakala compares Marvel's
Free Comic Book Day
offering Avengers: Age of Ultron Point One with its original incarnation as Avengers 12.1 and discovers a key difference: in the original version, Spider - Woman is naked.
While single - issue
comics are priced at the industry - low $ 1.49, Dark Horse will also
offer an extensive list of
free introductory # 1 issues.
To celebrate, the Archie folks are slashing prices on Kevin Keller
comics in their digital store,
offering Kevin Keller # 1 for
free and the other issues for 99 cents.
Graphicly, a former digital
comics distributor that now
offers a similar self - publishing service, will publish for
free on the web (and take 30 % of sales as its share) but charges $ 150 to make the
comic into an ebook and $ 500 to create an app.
Except when they are
free: You can't get a digital
comic by itself for
free, but 18 of the 30 campaigns
offered a print / digital bundle and only two charged more for that than for the print
comic alone.
In addition to running his
comics on the site, he beats the pirates to the punch by
offering free downloads, and he also sells them via comiXology.
Graphicly, a former digital
comics distributor that now
offers a similar self - publishing service, will publish for
free on the web (and take 30 % of sales as their share) but charges $ 150 to make the
comic into an ebook and $ 500 to create an app.
It's sort of amazing, given what the rights to the Beatles» music must cost, that ROK can
offer this
comic for
free, but there is one opportunity for them to make a bit of money: One of the video clips must be purchased for $ 1.99.
The
free -
comics offer lasts through Sunday, May 5, so you have time to go to the
comics store as well.
Nonetheless, those handfuls add up, and
Comic Bin is
offering 700
free comics altogether (hmm, that number seems familiar) so this is the time to get in there and see if it matches your tastes.
The app is
free and
offers a good selection of
free comics to non-subscribers.
There are many
comics available to listen for
free, so people can get a sense of the type of content they
offer.
To commemorate this historic event, Marvel is
offering select titles
free for a limited time, such as New Avengers # 1, which launched a new era for super hero
comics; Captain America # 1, Invincible Iron Man # 1 & Thor # 1, the perfect place for new readers to discover the titular heroes; and Super Hero Squad # 1, suited for fans of all ages, especially our youngest ones.
To celebrate the four Eisner Award nominations for Paul Tobin and Colleen Cover's Bandette — Best New Series, Best Digital
Comic, Best Penciler / Inker and Best Coloring — Monkeybrain Comics is
offering the first issue for
free on comiXology through the entire voting period.
In addition to its function as a reader for users» existing collections, ComicZeal also
offers a huge number of public domain Golden Age
comics for
free, and they make for a handy way of demonstrating the application.
Also in May
Free Comic Book Day happens, and, in the CBLDF
offering, we will have an exclusive two - page «Amelia» story.
ComicZeal
offers free Golden Age
comics and the ability to store your existing digital
comics collection on the iPhone or iPod touch
Free Comic Book Day 2014 is still quite some time away, but Marvel Comics has already begun releasing details about its May 3, 2014
offering.
ComiXology and Marvel are once again
offering digital
comic book fans access to the «700
free issues» promotion, Comixology announced today.
Right now, Marvel is
offering a selection of
free comics through the app to give you an idea of what it can do.
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).
Google Play Books has unveiled
comics - specific improvements, and it's celebrating by
offering more than 40
free comics.
Madefire
offers a competitive salary and equity package, comprehensive medical benefits (including dental and vision), career development budget (books, courses, conferences, etc.),
free digital
comics, family lunch every Monday and fresh bagels every Tuesday.
The original
offer — which was to run through 11 p.m. ET on Tuesday, March 12, featured a
free downloads of hundreds of first - issue
comic books through its mobile apps for Android and iOS or online
comic store.
The difference between the current promotion and other
free download
offers from Marvel is that the current promotion
offers a Hulk - sized amount of
comic reading for
free all at once.
New Kindle Store
offers over 2 million eBooks sold in Mexican Pesos, including the most Spanish language best sellers, more than 1,500
free books in Spanish, and hundreds of thousands of exclusive titles, including works from authors like José Emilio Pacheco, Elena Poniatowska, Sergio Pitol and Carlos Monsivais, as well as
comic books from Mafalda and Familia Burrón
Digital Comics: Artist Alley Comics doesn't exactly exist yet, but they
offered a
free downloadable comic on Free Comic Book Day (and it's still there on their si
free downloadable
comic on Free Comic Book Day (and it's still there on their s
comic on
Free Comic Book Day (and it's still there on their si
Free Comic Book Day (and it's still there on their s
Comic Book Day (and it's still there on their site).
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.
While many of us spent Monday barbecuing, watching X-Men: Days of Future Past or otherwise enjoying the day off from work, comiXology got a jump on the season with the launch of its «Summer Reading List,»
offering one
free digital
comic a day for 20 days.
The VIZ Media 2014
Free Comic Book Day VIZ Signature manga sampler is aimed at older teen and adult readers and will
offer excerpts from the new ALL YOU NEED IS KILL official graphic novel adaptation and the forthcoming manga series, TERRA FORMARS.
On the first Saturday of May,
comic book stores around the world
offer just what the name would suggest:
free comics!
Last week at
Comic - Con in San Diego Comixology announced that they will now
offer DRM -
free downloads of
comics purchased from Comixology.
Dark Horse
Comics iPad app does many things right — there are tons of
free comics and even content from Dynamite Entertainment (publishers of The Boys and Game of Thrones)-- but its sluggish performance will make you wish that Dark Horse would simply abandon the app in favor of using Comixology's
offering (which currently lacks Dark Horse
Comics» books).
The two companies also announced that the «
free digital copy» Marvel has been
offering on some of its physical issue
comics will now be available on Comixology.
For Halloween, Amazon's Kindle Store is
offering a funny
free comic book that looks at Batman when he was a child — as part of D.C. Comics special series, Li» l Gotham.
To celebrate the announcement of the Dark Horse Bookshelf app, Dark Horse Comics is
offering eight of its current digital
comic apps completely
free throughout the weekend.
Steinberger
offered more info on the company's transition to HD for the new iPad, noting that anyone who bought
comics previously will be able to upgrade to the new HD versions for
free.
While single - issue
comics will be available at the low price point of $ 1.49, Dark Horse will also
offer an extensive list of
free introductory # 1 issues.
Previously on Midlife Crisis Crossover: on May 5th I once again had the pleasure of once again observing
Free Comic Book Day, the least fake holiday of them all, that annual celebration when comic shops nationwide offer no - strings - attached goodies as a form of community outreach in honor of that time - honored medium where words and pictures dance in unison on the printed page, whether in the form of super-heroes, monsters, cartoon all - stars, licensed merchandise, or entertaining ordinary
Comic Book Day, the least fake holiday of them all, that annual celebration when
comic shops nationwide offer no - strings - attached goodies as a form of community outreach in honor of that time - honored medium where words and pictures dance in unison on the printed page, whether in the form of super-heroes, monsters, cartoon all - stars, licensed merchandise, or entertaining ordinary
comic shops nationwide
offer no - strings - attached goodies as a form of community outreach in honor of that time - honored medium where words and pictures dance in unison on the printed page, whether in the form of super-heroes, monsters, cartoon all - stars, licensed merchandise, or entertaining ordinary folk.
Comic strips Cartoonist Brad Guigar is offering his daily comic Evil Inc. free to college newspa
Comic strips Cartoonist Brad Guigar is
offering his daily
comic Evil Inc. free to college newspa
comic Evil Inc.
free to college newspapers.
Digital
comics Here's today's news article on Crunchyroll's new digital manga service, which
offers same - day releases of 12 Kodansha manga titles for
free and an all - you - can - eat service for $ 4.99 a month.
I've used them to download
free samples of
comics they were
offering (sampling Jersey Gods on the iPhone, for example, led to me purchasing the trades).
Each day through Dec. 22, the company will
offer a digital
comic for
free, beginning today with The Wake # 1 by Scott Snyder and Sean Murphy (it may be a holiday tradition for Snyder as well, as last year's event kicked off with Batman # 13).
These last two
offer comics the way readers say they want them, as DRM -
free PDFs.
Digital
comics The Japanese mobile platform LINE has added a digital
comics service for iOS and Android that launched with more than 30,000 volumes; key publishers such as Kodansha, Shogakukan, and Shueisha are on board from the beginning, and the service
offers free previews of most
comics.