comixology Archives

Lots of people use ComiXology to read digital comic books. But as we have noted, discussion with publishers reveal that digital reading numbers appear to have plateaued for their titles. Instead we have seen ComiXology expand the range of comics they distribute, exclusively publish some with Submit, move from country after country to expand the reader base and[...]

These are some of the many recent titles on sale this weekend at Comixology and of course are available at your local comic shops This issue is where Jungle Girl began and is long since sold out. You can check out the Comixology sale here. For your Friday night enjoyment we have three free comics starting with Blood[...]

We knew it was coming but now it's official… Dark Horse's comics, after ploughing their years of digital independence,have come to ComiXology. Today comiXology, the revolutionary cloud-based digital comics platform, proudly announced a digital distribution agreement with Dark Horse Comics, the largest independent comic book publisher, to bring their full digital catalog of collections, graphic novels, and[...]

Artist Jenny Frison was asked to do an exclusive cover for ComiXology's SDCC exclusive Will Eisner's The Spirit Here we get to see the different roughs she came up with before choosing a final version and making an awesome cover Interesting to see she had almost everything already in mind just changed how much of[...]

Since ComiXology established itself as the leading digital distributor of American comic books – there has been one big exception Dark Horse, who have ploughed their own digital furrow, creating their own app, their own digital platform and their own walled garden (though they did invite Dynamite in for a residency). Well, that appears to be[...]

Both Marvel and ComiXology have issued press releases regarding a new agreement between Marvel, ComiXoogy and ComiXology's owners Amazon. The basics are – Marvel have re-upped to have single issues exclusively distributed by ComiXology, and for ComiXology to continue to run the Marvel App, but as Amazon owns ComiXology now, that exclusive deal for single issues[...]

These are the six San Diego Comic Con exclusive cover print comics from digital comics publisher and distributor ComiXology. And available, it seems for free How you actually get copies however is yet to be revealed. The first two, A-Force #2 with a cover by Siya Oum. featuring the classic Ms Marvel reading a digital version of the new[...]

I've been having discussions with a number of comic book publishers who have told Bleeding Cool that digital comic book sales, rather than continuing to rise like most media, have been flattening out, finding a plateau and sticking there. Which is why, for a company like ComiXology, growth must come from adding more content and more[...]

Charles Forsman has been producing his new indie series Revenger independently for print and for download, but also distributing digitally on ComiXology So far the retro revenge story has moved through three issues The fourth issue, "No Bones" was released today. As a whole, Revenger  tells the story of "a woman who doesn't take any sh*t[...]

Today, IDW are announcing an interesting development in their digital offerings, shifting from a comiXology-powered set of apps to a series powered by Madefire that will convert the libraries of existing users Ted Adams, IDW CEO answers Bleeding Cool's questions about the new IDW apps and tells us what we can expect from new features. Hannah[...]

If you are a fan of the pulp heroes like The Phantom, Captain Action, The Green Hornet and more… then this weeks Dynamite / Comixology sale may be for you They're focusing on the pulp / noir issues and to go along with it, we've got Codename Action #1 by Chris Roberson and Jonathan Lau free for[...]

If you want to support the book being made, i will post the Comixology links, and Image digital links, as well as trade pre-order links So if you feel this is your kind of comic, and it's something you want to see made in it's entirety… And can afford to support it by buying it…[...]

Today on ComiXology you'll find a unique comic with quite a backstory to it In fact, it has so much backstory that the comic contains plenty of meta-material to let you in on its secrets The Roman Nose has been in development for well over a year, a collaboration between pop culture and professional photographer[...]

ComiXology Submit,  is sponsoring Artist Alley at this weekend's C2E2 convention, and to celebrate, comiXology is giving away special limited edition posters each day of the show from April 24th through April 26th at the McCormick Center in Chicago, IL These posters feature Fabian Rangel Jr.'s comiXology Submit smash hitDoc Unknown as rendered by superstar[...]

But for those wallowing in nostalgia, DC and ComiXology are giving you a greater chance to do so. So this week, they will be running a 99 cent digital sale on Batman: Shadow Of The Bat from Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle – which couldn't come at a better time for Norm And the Superman comics when[...]

We talked about ComiXology ramping up their employee numbers recently The digital comic book distributor and publisher bought by Amazon (we told you about that first too) looks to be moving into a new level of size, scope and ambition For which it needs boots on the ground. And at Emerald City Comicon in Seattle this[...]

He writes about movies and TV sometimes at wedisagree.blogspot.com and his first novel, Quarter City, can be read for free on Wattpat at the moment. Henchmen: I, Henchbot #2 (Robot Paper, $3.50/hard copy, $0.99/digital copy) By Cat Taylor The first digital comic I ever read through Comixology was the first issue of Henchmen I was surprisingly impressed with[...]

On one hand the branding for ComiXology… And on the other for Heathrow airport Could we be getting inflight ComiXology in the near future? In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, coincidences or works of the lightbox We trust you, the[...]

ComiXology are hiring And how There are currently twenty-eight open positions at the Amazon-owned digital comic book distributor in New York and Seattle. Security Engineer – comiXology Software Development US, NY, New York Technical Program Manager – TPM II (Level 5) Project/Program/Product Management–TECHNICAL US, NY, New York Product Owner – eCommerce – comiXology Project/Program/Product Management–NON-TECH US, NY, New York Software[...]

By Olly MacNamee Having successfully Kickstarted this dream project and with the first four issues of a planned 6 issue initial run under his belt, writer

ComiXology have returned to Angoulême, the world's biggest comic book festival, for their third year with a sale to spotlight comics, bandes dessinées (BD), graphic novels and manga from all over the world, both in English and French This international discount will apply through the festival until February 1st[...]

 ComiXology's Submit allows creators and publishers to self-publish their comics digitally with relative ease, with new titles every week. They can get a bit hidden away though, something I want to redress in 2015 a bit But for now, here's the top-selling 25 titles for 2014… with Gail Simone, Jim Califiore, Gary Erskine, Joe Benitez,[...]

ComiXology sent a survey out to lapsed customers asking why they lapsed so… If you haven't bought any comics with us in a while, do any of these reasons below explain why?  I no longer like comics There haven't been any good comics worth buying I now prefer to buy print comics I no longer purchase now that in-app purchasing[...]

By Josh Hechinger Welcome once more to From Strip to Script, where I take a shot at reverse-engineering a script from a finished page of someone else’s

Up until a few days ago, you could buy all of Dark Horse's Star Wars comics digitally for a fraction of the cost. This is no longer the case. Now all the

Rich and Megan Levens, entitled Ares & Aphrodite, by making its first chapter available straight away on ComiXology and Madefire. Following their work together on Madame Frankenstein, the comic will be released every Tuesday in six weekly chapters, concluding just before Valentine's Day, which is handy. Ares & Aphrodite has one of those big high concepts, a divorce lawyer[...]

But right now ComiXology are doing a special sale, half off your first order. And because they are maybe trying to get pirates to go legit, they are using for the discount code, the filename suffix of many pirated comics, CBR. It might also be the perfect opportunity to purchase a digital comic for a friend, a[...]

This weekend, Bleeding Cool asked why ComiXology were adding sales tax charges ahead of new European legislation coming into place in January – and asked where the money was going? We just got the answer Back to the people who paid it. Dear fellow comic fan, We wanted to let you know that we're refunding an over-charge that happened to[...]

Starting tonight at midnight ET, ComiXology Submit will be having its largest sale yet, which will run until noon on January1st Over a thousand comic books knocked down to half price. See all the eligible comic books here – with the code INDIE being used to trigger the saving Though not quite yet[...]

For that reason, the comic is currently free on ComiXology to spread its significant message. The comic will be debuting officially at the Mumbai Film and Comics Convention from December 19-21, 2014, where creators Ram Devineni and Dan Goldman will be presenting the comic book to attendees, and demonstrating the ways in which it uses augmented[...]