apple Archives

Patrick Stewart Gives Another X-Men Movie The Nod
One of its regulars, who works in an Apple store, found themselves serving Patrick Stewart this week He'd lost the plug for his iPhone, as you do Or at least as I do. And, after getting Stewart to say "Magneto" and "Weapon X" a few times asked "So… another X-Men movie?" And he nodded. Stewart also mentioned that[...]
Five Page Comic Fails To Persuade US District Judge
The comic was drawn by a college friend of Kohn's daughter. Is it a total coincidence that Bob Kohn looks a little like Scott McCloud in the comic? Sadly it didn't work out and Cote approved the Justice Department's settlement. [issuu width=420 height=272 backgroundColor=%23222222 documentId=120906195119-7c07606a8d834994afbf752018639694 name=105016617-apple-amicus-brief_1_ username=richjohnston tag=amicus unit=px v=2] [...]
How To Save Money On Your iPad ComiXology Comics – For You And The Publishers
When a American customer purchases comics via the iOS Comixology app, Apple adds almost 9% sales tax onto the final price. However, making the same purchase via the Comixology website does not incur the same tax.Even if you do it on your iPad with the Safari browser. Of course, it's not just that 9% that you're saving[...]
The 2000AD Day-And-Date Digital Experience
Oh and pay twice the price. You can see why it never really caught on. Well, yesterday, 2000AD launched it's first Apple App, for the iPad and iPhone And made 2000AD avalailable to download from the Apple Newsstand, on day-and-date digital terms, at £1.99 or $2.99 a copy, compared to a £2.25 or $5 print price. However the[...]
Star Trek/Doctor Who Tops The Apple iBook Charts
Not only is Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who: Assimilation 2 from IDW the first monthly comic to be sold singly in Apple's iBooks on the same day it's out in print, but it's also at the top spot! Though, you know, those Walking Dead volumes are probably better value. In other availability news, IDW's Ghostbusters line[...]
All Star Superman On The New iPad Ads
According to the New iPad promotional video, kids still read comics. What's more, they're reading Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely comics. That can't be a
Creating A Comic Book On The iPad
I doubt I'll be getting an iPad 3 new iPad, when the one I have still seems as if it can do marvellous stuff. Although I haven't even tried to attempt the
Apple's iBookstore Loads Up With New Graphic Novels
This morning, Apple opened the Comics & Graphic Novels iBookstore section Here's the full list in order of popularity The free New Avengers #1 has hit the top, followed by the reworking of Interview With A Vampire from Anne Rice, Claudia's Story, Comic Bibles, The Batman Files and Bibi: Book One There's plenty of Walking[...]
Cerebus To Go Digital In 2012 – If Dave Sim Can Get Some Answers
Except that negotiations have stalled with Dave Sim worried about auditing over the number of downloads – and whether or not Dave Sim can trust Apple to tell him the truth. Can anyone provide him with answers?     On the new Cerebus TV episode, premiering on Bleeding Cool, Dave Sim first talks about Darwyn Cooke and his[...]
Judge Dredd Vs Zombies: The Game
What's not to love? Judge Dredd Vs Zombies can be downloaded from the Apple App Store. It got rather overshadowed the other day in terms of new App games, what with the iPad release of A Bard's Tale But Rebellion, the games company that bought 2000AD and Judge Dredd because they liked them, released a[...]
DC Comics Fails Over Kindle App Availability
That's the tweet sent out at the end of September, assuring people as the news streamed out that DC Comics were getting into bed with Amazon Kindle Fire, that they would be able to access these one hundred digital graphic novels on their Apple iPads, say. However, when the books went live for downloading yesterday, people[...]
Preview: The Zen Of Steve Jobs
Set in the eighties after Jobs has been exiled from Apple, in the wilderness And the lessons he learns before returning… The finished comic will be published later this year. Forbes has issued four advance pages  of a new graphic novel they are publishing with creative agency Jess3 called The Zen Of Steve Jobs[...]
Will DC Comics Drop Their UK Print Prices To Match Digital?
And of course the shipping from the US to Diamond UK is a factor in the price UK shops are charged. So while the direct exchange pound-to-dollar would see a $2.99 comic sell for £1.83, in practice such a comic sells in UK shops anywhere from £2.10 in London to £2.50 in Hull. Until recently, Apple iTunes[...]
The Apple Vs Google Digital Comics Showdown
Lost amidst all the recent statement-issuing and clarifications over the New York Times' piece on Apple's App Store guidelines and what they mean for the future of ebooks (and by implication, comics) was what this all might also mean for multi-platform access Wednesday, Marvel's announcement of the launch of their Google Chrome App muddied[...]