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It's a tiny thing in the Making Of The Private Eye digital download One of a number of emails between Bryan K Vaughan and Marcos Martin But this one had a curious title… What the hell was that? Oh yes… it must have been this article I'd sent an e-mail to Bryan K Vaughan asking about[...]

Since Marvel began their digital download program, putting digital download codes inside their $3.99 comics and certain collections, they've also been doing something extra for the retailers who sold the comics Giving them a small stipend for any of their customers who download the comic digitally and told Marvel where they bought the comic Added[...]

A less-than-as-regular-as-we'd-like collection of in-App iOS ComiXology digital comic sales across the world, country by country, from Wednesday. Injustice: Gods Among Us dominates with a number of charts having more than one entry Germany and Italy seems to go for creator owned comics more with Trillium, The Bunker and The Walking Dead doing better in the[...]

At SDCC, Lion Forge debuted one of their new digital comic's Claire Sinclair's Wonderous I got a chance to chat with Joelle Sellner, the writer on Wonderous about the new series, working with the former Playmate-of-the-Year and the difference in scripting for the digital format. BLEEDING COOL: The book was created by Claire Sinclair and written[...]

Congrats to Los Angeles photographer Aniz Adam Ansari, who has just landed an Associate Editor gig at DC Comics Digital in Burbank. He already messes with his photographic work in a variety of entertaining fashions, now we get to see him do it to DC's comics as well. Could this be the kind of thing we could[...]

Mark Waid, of Thrillbent has announced the opening of the Thrillbent store, allowing people to pay to download PDF versions of the Thrillbent comics they have been offering for free in CBZ format. And, in a model that seems to echo Bryan K Vaughan and Marcos Martin's Private Eye digital comic, they are DRM-free and, for[...]

David Nieves writes for Bleeding Cool: Comics for children should be able to be shared with children, a simple notion right? That isn't always the case in

He left to become the co-founder and CTO of ComiXology. In other related news, it has been pointed out to me by George Gatsis that Dark Horse's work on The Mask in the nineties might blow any such patent out of the water if it were challenged, and defend their own reading experience on the Dark[...]

They meant the layered panel digital comics that DC call DC2, that Marvel call Infinite Comics and that Thrillbent call… Thrillbent comics. They need a name But it shouldn't be the brand name of a publisher They should be named after their inventor. Alex De Campi. Just as we have Kirby Krackle, Steranko Effects and Bendis-Speak, we should[...]

Incredible Hulk vol 2 77-112 at 99 cents each digitally, are rolling out from Australia onwards right now for Monday, although we dont know what happened to issue 108… Incredible Hulk vol 2 77-112 at 99 cents each digitally, are rolling out from Australia onwards right now for Monday, although we dont know what happened[...]

Marvel Comics held their House of Ideas panel at the San Diego Comic Con today and Daniel Oakley sent in some of the highlights. The panel began with some trailers for upcoming Marvel projects including Marvel's Agents of SHIELD TV show (the return of Agent Coulson got the biggest cheer of the panel), The Avengers Assemble[...]

Thanks to Tom Huxley who can see this in the UK, even if I can't in the US, tomorrow ComiXology brings a 99 cent sale to the rather wonderful

Straight from the DC Digital panel, Kyrax, the Batgirl of San Diego, asked the panel why the Stephanie Brown dress up appearance in L'il Gotham was erased with a hair colour change DC's Bob Wayne, as ever, avoided the question but Kyrax pushed it The panel found new ways to avoid it… They just write[...]

A new digital comic From Joshua Hale Fialkov and Joe Infurnari I think At least that's what it looks like. Check the website here and keep an eye on the @whatisthebunker twitter feed… A new digital comic From Joshua Hale Fialkov and Joe Infurnari I think At least that's what it looks like. Check the website here[...]

There you go folks. And Scooby Doo meets Batman And Robin in November. Or is it Scooby Do? And who wants a free Superman #1?

Revealed at the San Diego Comic Con DC Digital panel, coming soon, every Thursday, a new Vampire Diaries comic spinning out of the TV show… Revealed at the San Diego Comic Con DC Digital panel, coming soon, every Thursday, a new Vampire Diaries comic spinning out of the TV show… Revealed at the San Diego[...]

At this evening's Monkeybrain Comics panel at San Diego Comic Con, they will announce five new series. I'm especially pleased to see the return of Anina

Asylum Press announced today that Lori Lovcraft, the creator-owned property of Mike Vosburg, has returned in a new digital mini-series Lori Lovecraft: Into the Past Vosburg, whose comic career is in it's fifth decade, has worked for Marvel Comics, DC Comics and Valiant among others over the years but is best know for his seven[...]

Penises are fine at ComiXology, as long as they remain firmly innuendoed. Hence their T-shirts, a hundred being given away to the first people at

Jonathan Hickman's Fantastic Four gets the ComiXology digital discount on Friday, down to 99 cents a copy for issues #570-588, #601-611… but not the issues of FF #1-12 that filled that gap, nor the more expensive #600… Jonathan Hickman's Fantastic Four gets the ComiXology digital discount on Friday, down to 99 cents a copy for[...]

A combination of popular print comics and digital only comics has seen DC Comics starting to dominate the ComiXology charts, and the same is happening this week with Batman '66 helping out Though a new Walking Dead takes the top spot in most territories – though not the UK, who had it in print form[...]

Wired reports that, as Marvel launches the Wolverine: Japan's Most Wanted digital comic by Jason Aaron and Jason Latour, they have also announced a new Infinite Comic with Kieron Gillen, Al Ewing and Lan Medina. Iron Man: Fatal Frontier appears to have a little Russian/Latverian action going on. Gillen said the future of the medium likely lies[...]

Which do you prefer? Batman with a smile running around trying to find a way to just get rid of a bomb, of Superman punching Joker's chest out? that was

I really enjoyed that last run. But at the end of last year, on its 75th birthday, it stopped its print edition and went digital only, as The Digital Dandy. And now after thirteen digital issues that, it appears, has ceased as well CArtoonist Wilbur Dawburn confirmed the news…. Sad to say the bold experiment that was the[...]

George Gatsis writes; After a year on getting Cerebus Digital, Animated and Distributed (CerebusDownloads.com )… I have finally had free time allocated back to myself so I can contemplate and procrastinate Alas… both seem to be exactly the same for me. So I decided to do the opposite of what I usually do… Usually, I devote my[...]

It's a fun, silly, campy recreation of the spirit of the 1960's Batman TV show, but with a bigger budget. But if it's meant to be the "the next level" of digital comics, as this Wired article suggests, it's clearly lacking. DC² adds new layers to the digital comic page by putting in morphing artwork, conversations that[...]

And also, from today, collects the digital comic from Warren Ellis and Jason Howard, Scatterland, as a 99 cent digital comic. More importantly this, and other digital comics such as Jupiter's Legacy, can be downloaded without the DRM that the likes of ComiXology or iBooks employ. Which, in one step, has lifted Image Comics from the crowd… UPDATE:[...]

And Dark Horse's Digital Bundles where a huge amount of digital comics are sold at a huge price, around $100 or so But they are time sensitive, and if you don't jump in, you will miss out. Now ComiXology have launched a series of bundles without as stringent time constraints for a number of publishers. Be warned[...]

Bargain. Dark Horse are also launching their digital collection of graphic novels on the iBook Store. STUDIO FIRE Man cannot live by digital alone, which is why the Madefire studio are opening their doors for free beer, pizza, and good times with Bill Sienkiewicz and Liam Sharp to celebrate the new Sherlock Holmes Madefire digital comic they are[...]

It appears that the original Watchmen series is just 99 cents a pop on ComiXology. Might be worth the trip. Although, you can get similar prices on Amazon