MobileComics

When Nintendo dropped its beefy DSi XL in 2010, I had high hopes that comics could flourish -- or at least make some headway -- on one of gaming's most iconic portable gaming platforms. While that didn't necessarily pan out in North America, my hopes haven't faded...

While Boom! Studios isn't exactly new to mobile comics on digital devices having had certain titles (like "Hexed") available since 2009, the publisher is making significantly more consolidated headway in the digital space today with an all-new branded app for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch via comiXology...

Even though there's already plenty of new original comics content rolling out of places like Boom! Studios and Kingdom Comics, Disney's old school comic strips are finding new life on mobile electronic devices such as Apple's iPhone and iPod touch, along with Sony's PSP in a new digital initiative, "Disney DigiComics...

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

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

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...