DigitalComics

If you're still on the fence about paying for digital comics instead of their print counterparts, your local library could soon offer a very free workaround for reading single issue comics and graphic novels. Come July (tentatively, anyway), iVerse Media will launch Comics Plus: Library Edition, a new digital comics platform spanning HTML5 web browsers/mobile devices/tablets that participating li

With all the talk about motion comics, Infinite Comics and standard digital comics, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the idea of an animated comic was old hat. If that is your point of view, you just might change your mind once you've seen Ryan Woodward's Bottom of The Ninth, though...

Art: Colleen Coover pays homage to an almost legendary rejected '90s Marvel Comics try-out page that teamed Wolverine and Queen's Freddie Mercury. Digital: Dark Horse Digital is having a 10 percent off sale April 27-29 for fans who sign up for the publisher's newsletter by Thursday...

Each year when the Eisner Award nominations are announced, I rush to my computer to see who was nominated for the Best Digital Comic category. Just like fans of print comics, I have my favorites: creators who really rocked this year; workhorses who have turned out solid comics every week for years; innovators who are doing exciting new things with the format...

DC didn't have any official art to show when it announced its upcoming digital comic adapting DC Collectibles' series of anime style Ame-Comi statues (and Halloween costumes) by writers Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray and artists including Amanda Conner and Tony Adkins, Sanford Greene, Ted Naifeh, Mike Bowden, and Santi Casas, but thanks to a new blog post from Naifeh, fans now have a better pictu

Commercials: Just in time for The Avengers movie, J.K. Simmons (a.k.a. J. Jonah Jameson) instructs a team of insurance agents in the art of... avenging? Digital: Marvel has opened a new digital storefront that's synched with its comiXology powered Marvel app...

When asked why he didn't put himself directly into his recently-released Comic-Con documentary, Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope, last Saturday night in Portland, Ore., director Morgan Spurlock joked that he wanted people to actually like it...

Why are more and more creators turning to the web for creator-owned comics? Perhaps because the financial realities involved in launching a new print comic are heavily stacked against new projects that don't come from the bigger publishers, something that Mark Waid laid out with some brutal honesty in a recent blog post...

Theme Parks: Walt Disney World is decorating its Monorail S.H.I.E.L.D. style with The Avengers graphics aplenty this spring/summer. Industry: Ken Sasaki, former Senior Vice President and General Manger of Viz Media, is now the company's President and CEO...

What's that you say? You really wanted to read the new Shazam backup strip by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank, but didn't want to pay $3.99 and buy the entire Justice League #7 for just a handful of pages? With one magic word -- well, really, a special download code, but poh-tay-to, poh-tah-to -- a free digital version of the first episode can be yours for free...