mobile comics

While a longstanding proponent of (often free) digital content, Dark Horse is really starting to mingle at the mobile comics party with the recent release of two of its flagship properties onto Apple's iPhone. Mike Mignola's "Hellboy: Seed of Destruction" storyline along with Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá's "Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite" are now available for download via iTu

Mobile and digital comics are often frowned upon by traditionalists who prefer the printed page to small screens, but that doesn't seem to matter to a reporter from Down Under who skipped traditional reading entirely and actually enjoys the electronic format...

Though it's definitely not the first comics publisher to the iPhone (and don't forget the iPhone Touch) party, Devil's Due Publishing is one of the few publisher's to make its entire line of titles available on the device. Where many publishers have handled mobile comics distribution on a franchise by franchise basis or, in the case of IDW, brought the mobile comics operation in house, DDP has par

He may be all smiles and freckles, but Riverdale's resident lady-killer hides a secret penchant for destroying his mobile comics competition in terms of raw downloads. According to an official press release from Archie Comics and its iPhone distributor iVerse Media, Archie Andrews is number one on the smart phone, making it the most downloaded comic in the device's history...

After years in alien-abducted limbo, Jessica Drew is back and ready to kill anyone she can get her hands on in today's "Spider-Woman: Agent of S.W.O.R.D." #1, which is now available for download on iTunes for 99 cents. Created by the reunited Daredevil team of Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev, the motion comic will run for five 10-12 minute episodes available every two weeks... Read

PlayStation Portable owners will have a new personal electronic reading room this December when Marvel Comics releases many of its flagship titles in PlayStation online stores. Marvel announced today that gamers in the United States, and other select countries will have access to classic, select and digital-first comics through the PlayStation reader -- from Marvel and possibly others as well... R

One of the dominant forces behind bringing the mobile comics on the iPhone and other devices, iVerse Media, LLC announced today that its line of applications have topped one million downloads. "We're very excited to has passed this milestone" said iVerse Media CEO Michael Murphey in an official press release...

The iPhone has dominated the mobile comics market since its debut a little more than two years ago, when digital versions of comics like Jeff Smith's "Bone" began to trickle onto the App Store. Since then, comics have often charted as best-selling downloads on the device, pushing aside classic literature and even religious texts for top spots...

The Kansas City-based Uclick is best known for bringing Jeff Smith's "Bone" and dozens of other comics titles to the iPhone and other mobile devices, but its reach could potentially extend further into the world of print now that its parent company has merged with Universal Press Syndicate, and renamed it Uclick Universal...