digital december

Digital December: 7 Things YOU Want to See in Digital Comics
Digital December: 7 Things YOU Want to See in Digital Comics
Over the past two weeks, we've interviewed several representatives from six companies as part of our Digital December. Marvel and DC Comics are the Big Two, while Dark Horse, Boom! Studios, and IDW have turned a mix of licensed and original content into successful publishing ventures, and Fantagraphics is one of the industry's foremost publishers of literary comics...
Digital December: Fantagraphics and Getting On The Digital Train
Digital December: Fantagraphics and Getting On The Digital Train
The bulk of the conversation about digital comics, both here and elsewhere, have largely revolved around the Big Two of Marvel and DC Comics, other mainstream publishers, and indie comics, in that order. Mostly absent from the conversation have been publishers like Fantagraphics: companies that make handsome, well-designed books that do not necessarily appeal to the bulk of the Direct Market... R
Digital December: Marvel Comics on the ‘New Newsstand’ and the Marvel Vault
Digital December: Marvel Comics on the ‘New Newsstand’ and the Marvel Vault
Marvel stands alongside DC as being one of the biggest publishers in the comics business, and shifting that weight can sometimes take time. Marvel's pushed forward with a number of day and date titles, such as Ultimate Comics Thor and Ultimate Comics Captain America, but has stepped backward, from our point of view, with high prices for those books and the Marvel Vault...
Digital December: Boom! Studios on the ‘Pollyanna-ish’ Overhype of Digital Comics
Digital December: Boom! Studios on the ‘Pollyanna-ish’ Overhype of Digital Comics
Boom! Studios has kicked their entire operation up a notch over the past few years. Mark Waid's Incorruptible and Irredeemable are critical darlings, their Disney books have captured an audience that a lot of mainstream comics cannot, and they've even revived well-loved franchises like the Muppets and Darkwing Duck to great effect...
Digital December: IDW Publishing on Digital Comics
Digital December: IDW Publishing on Digital Comics
Digital December rolls on! Next up is IDW Publishing, which has spent the past two years gunning for the position of third place publisher in the Direct Market. And it has done quite an impressive job doing so, thanks to its strong licensed content, a series of handsome archive editions of classic comics, and a robust digital library with a mix of books featuring high profile licensed properties l