Tag Archive | "digital comics"

Comics in the iPad age

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

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PJ Holden, a comics creator who has often discussed the changing nature of comics publishing and reading since the advent of widespread portable digital readers and availability, posts up a few thoughts on comics creation (especially for independent creators) in the iPad era. Snip: “Ok, some loose thoughts, that may or may not add up [...]

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Eddie Campbell’s Dapper John – available as an exclusive app….

Saturday, December 24, 2011

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The best thing about reading Eddie Campbell’s news of the re-release of his Dapper John /Ace Rock ‘N’ Roll Club tales – this line: “This exists only as an app! Whatever an app is.” Yes, lots of Eddie Campbell’s early work is now available on those new fangled app things…. available to do that downloading [...]

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The Thrill Electric – Matt talks with Leah Moore and John Reppion

Friday, November 4, 2011

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Occasional Forbidden Planet International blog contributor Matt Badham recently decided to have a chat with scriptwriting team Leah Moore and John Reppion about their latest project, The Thrill Electric, which just started posting on Channel 4’s site last week. The result was the following interview: MB: How did you come up with the idea for [...]

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If even Mark Millar can’t make money from digital comics, then we’re doing it wrong….

Saturday, July 30, 2011

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So says Jim Campbell, who has a post up number-crunching the economics behind digital comics. (Thanks to Matt Badham for the heads up on this) An interesting, rather eye-opening look at just a few of the problems we’re going to face in the upcoming shift to digital – a marketplace where the artists involved may [...]

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Peacemaker

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

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One of my favourite contemporary science fiction authors, Australia’s own Marianne de Pierres, tells me that she’s managed to scratch two itches for the price of one, satisfying an urge to dabble in comics (previously as well as her excellent science fictionnovels her work has also inspired gaming and animation) and a very long held [...]

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Digital comics panel from Planet Comicon

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

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Lee Leslie has almost an hour of video recording the digital comics panel from the recent 2011 Planet Comicon discussing the creation and promotion of webcomics, with the panel consisting of Lee, Chris Grine, Daniel Spottswood and Buster Moody: Planet Comicon Digital Comics Panel from Lee Leslie on Vimeo.

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Missed this – Colleen Doran on digital comic piracy….

Saturday, December 4, 2010

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Missed this when Tom covered it in mid November. But worth mentioning now to get a very important artist’s viewpoint on the debate over digital comic piracy and the impact it has upon the artist’s livelihood. Artist of the award winning (and very good) A Distant Soil, Colleen Doran writes a well reasoned and vigorous [...]

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The Adventures of Simon Pegg!

Thursday, November 11, 2010

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Coming soon, The Adventures of Simon Pegg!Ben at Blend tells me they have been working with Cornerstone Publishing to bring a digital comics version of Simon Pegg’s tale (previously mentioned in his recent autobiography), to life. From the description:  “Behold, Simon Pegg as you’ve never seen him before! Marvel as his superhero alter-ego traverses the [...]

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Drawing on the iPad

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

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When it comes to the iPad most of the comics talk has been on what it is like as a platform to read a comics page on, but how about as a tablet to draw on? (link via Bloghorn)

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Violent!

Thursday, May 13, 2010

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(cover to Violent! #17, cover by Darren Winter) Emperor tells us that there’s a new issue of Violent! and it’s available to read online via Factor Fiction’s site as a free PDF (after the nasty site hacking incident last year), with contributions from Jay Eales, Paul McCaffrey, Darren Douglas, Chris Askham, Finn Clark, Jay Rainford-Nash, [...]

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From our continental correspondent – The Gripes of (digital) Wrath in France

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

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It would seem that the introduction of digital in a certain type of medium, whether it’s an artform, a news medium or a form of entertainment, never happens without some serious misunderstandings about who should reap the fabled benefits of that new opportunity.  Come to think of it, digital has got nothing to do with [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Next in comics: the commentary track

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

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Marketing boys never stop.  In the US, they’ve tried to flog you multiple copies of comics by using different, “exclusive”, covers, while in France they typically add limited edition prints and ex-librises to them, or whip together a “dossier” to go along with the album.  And sometimes they actually succeed in creating something nice, like [...]

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Apples, Tablets, comics

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

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Over on the 2000 AD forums artist PJ Holden has been discussing a subject which has a good chunk of the Twitterverse and blogosphere speculating away, the announcement of Apple’s next baby, a tablet computer, an arrival generating a fair bit of excited discussion among some (although some have argued that tablet type computers seem [...]

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Cash: I See a Darkness, soundtrack edition

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

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Doug at the fine indy press Self Made Hero (who have been publishing a variety of graphic novels we’ve really been loving this year) tells me that they’ve collaborated with Ave Comics on a digital version of Reinhard Kleist’s graphic biopic of Johnny Cash, I See a Darkness, a book which seriously impressed me this [...]

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Going digital?

Thursday, October 29, 2009

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There’s an interesting discussion shaping up on the 2000 AD forums regarding the future of comics publishing, especially with regard to different digital formats and the possibility of better tablet computer technology allowing for easy and efficient replacement of the traditional paper comics issue, with individual printed issues perhaps becoming a thing of the past, [...]

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