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Ape Entertainment & Sesame Street Looking To Team Up

Posted by :Michael Nimmo On : October 13, 2011
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Ape Entertainment have already a lot of good younger age titles under their belt, so this is a nice fit between the two.

Getting together with the Sesame Street will add to that impressive portfolio! I also like the idea on getting kids to read! As I write this my daughter has just finished reading the Beano in her room!

APE ENTERTAINMENT HOPES TO SET UP SHOP ON SESAME STREET
Ape Entertainment and Sesame Workshop in Negotiations to Create Educational Comics for Young Readers

(SAN DIEGO, CA, October 13, 2011) – Ape Entertainment announced today that it is currently negotiating with Sesame Workshop for the right to produce a series of comic books featuring the cast of the beloved children’s show Sesame Street.

Ape Entertainment hopes to work with Sesame Workshop to create a series of comic books that will be both educational and entertaining for young readers. Subject to successful negotiations, the comics will be produced in full color and available in printed editions as well as in digital editions that will be available through the Sesame Street store on Apple’s iTunes in 2012.

“We are incredibly excited about our current negotiations with Sesame Workshop and the possibility of being able to bring their expertise in educating and entertaining children to comics,” said Ape Entertainment COO Brent E. Erwin. He went on to say, “I love the idea of creating educational comics that will both teach and entertain children. And the possibility of getting to work with Elmo, Big Bird, Cookie Monster and Grover, well…that’s just a dream come true.”

Sesame Workshop is a nonprofit educational organization with the mission of making a meaningful difference in the lives of children worldwide by addressing their critical developmental needs. Sesame Workshop has been producing Sesame Street for over forty years.

Ape Entertainment intends to continue its mission to grow the comics industry by increasing awareness about comics among a new generation of readers. Ape Entertainment hopes young readers and their parents will discover the exciting world of comics and start visiting a local comic book shop.

For more information, please visit www.apecomics.com or www.sesameworkshop.org.

Rex Royd Goes Digital On The Titan Comics App

Posted by :Michael Nimmo On : October 13, 2011
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Migrating from print to digital is Clint magazine’s other controversial star – Rex Royd.

Written by controversial comedian Frankie Boyle, Rex Royd is something which needs to be seen to be believed!

Personally I’m a little shocked it got past the Apple censors!

Exploding out of the pages of CLiNT, the trailblazing comics magazine from KICK-ASS creator Mark Millar and Titan magazines, Frankie Boyle’s twisted comic strip is now available for iPhone and iPad!

REX ROYD, by outspoken Scottish comedian and writer Frankie Boyle, introduces “The Renaissance Man of Madness” in a spectacular serialised comic. Drenched in the blackest of humour, Boyle weaves the barrier-shattering adventures of Rex Royd, a Lex Luthor-style super-scientist and businessman. Along with his close-knit support staff including Eve, the first woman, and his invincible head of security, Alan Black, Rex is out to change the world… whether we want him to or not!

Rex Royd comics by Frankie Boyle are now available to read on the iPhone and iPad. Search for the Titan Comics app in the app store or visit:
http://itunes.apple.com/app/titan-comics/id388961811

A new season of Rex Royd comics starts in CLiNT #12 — on sale 24 November — making this the perfect time to catch up with Boyle’s scathing supervillain satire!

Mark Millar’s CLiNT magazine is available worldwide! For more information and to subscribe visit: http://www.CLiNTMag.com

Connect with CLiNT magazine on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/clintmag

Follow CLiNT magazine on Twitter:
http://www.twitter.com/CLiNTmag

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The Walking Dead On Barnes & Noble & Amazon

Posted by :Michael Nimmo On : October 13, 2011
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Graphicly sure have been busy recently – now they are flexing their digital muscles to release Robert Kirkman’s series ‘The Walking Dead’ on the Barnes & Noble Nook and the Amazon App Store!

As we prepare for the return of the hit show, The Walking Dead (season 2 starts Sunday, October 16th), now’s a great time to catch up with the comic series that inspired the television show! Written by Robert Kirkman with art by Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard, The Walking Dead is a tale of survival horror in a world overrun by zombies and has been consistently one of the best-selling comics of past decade.

Now owners of the Barnes and Noble Nook Color and Android powered tablet users can experience The Walking Dead comics at the touch of their fingertips by downloading the collected edition apps of The Walking Dead direct to their device!

Barnes and Noble Nook Color users can find the apps here for purchase, or search the Nook App Store

Android Tablet users can find the apps here for purchase, or search the Android App Store Market on your device

Now’s the perfect time to set forth on the adventure of reading The Walking Dead, while you watch the new season of The Walking Dead television show on AMC!  And you don’t have to worry about spoilers, as the show, while based on the comic with many similarities is unique and a bit different than the comics.  Plus, there’s 14 volumes of the comic to catch up on, so you can fill the time inbetween episodes!

Graphicly Newsstand Only on iPad

Posted by :Michael Nimmo On : October 13, 2011
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As an added comment to the earlier post on Graphicly’s iOS Newsstand app.

Currently Graphicly titles are only available on the iPad. They are looking into iPhone feasibility and are currently gauging the interest in the platform

Graphicly Provide Comics On The Newsstand On iOS 5

Posted by :Michael Nimmo On : October 13, 2011
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A slick move by Graphicly, which is going to push my digital comics buying over the edge!

Yesterday, iPhone and iPad owners excitingly downloaded and installed iOS 5, the latest version of the operating system for those devices. In addition to the all the great updates, iOS 5 includes the rollout of the Newsstand, a way to easily subscribe to magazines and other periodical content. Seems like a great place for comics, don’t you think? We think so too!

We’re extremely excited today to announce that Graphicly is the first and only provider of monthly comics available on the Newsstand in iOS 5.  We’ve teamed up with leading comics publishers, Image Comics and BOOM! Studios to make some of the best ongoing series available for subscription on the Newsstand in iOS 5.  Today, you can go and purchase subscriptions for the following books:

The Newsstand versions of these comics provide a brand new, Graphicly powered interface for iOS 5 that we’re immensely proud of.  You’ll be able to read your comics via the title specific application, and thanks to the Newsstand, you’ll automatically receive each issue as it’s released, same day as print! You don’t need to manually download the issue, it gets delivered directly to your iPad! Doesn’t get easier to enjoy your comics than that!

If you don’t read any of the above titles, now seems like a great time to jump on, especially since all the issues for each title are easily accessible from within the app! These are just the first titles that we’ve released to the Newsstand. Comic fans can expect even more titles to be rolled out soon!

Check out all the iOS 5 apps available from Graphicly!

Here’s the official press release:

Graphicly Announces Support for iOS 5; Brings Leading Digital Comic Titles to Newsstand 

The Walking Dead, Invincible, Irredeemable and More Now Available on Newsstand

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – October 13, 2011 – Graphicly is proud to announce that many of its leading digital comics titles, including  The Walking Dead, Invincible and Irredeemable are now available on Newsstand, a key feature of the newly released iOS 5.  By working with leading publishers, including Image Comics and BOOM! Studios, Graphicly is making it even easier to subscribe to some of the best comic books on the market.

Utilizing Newsstand in iOS5, Graphicly is able to deliver comics directly to readers without the need for downloading additional applications and searching for titles. Now readers can easily browse for and subscribe to their favorite titles in the Newsstand, and have new issues delivered to their devices immediately. New titles will be released the same day as print and delivered seamlessly to users. This is a bold new way for readers to discover and enjoy stories, making it easier than ever to never miss an issue.

“The leading publishers and creators understand that developing a relationship with their fans is the most important thing,” said Micah Baldwin, CEO of Graphicly. “Newsstand ensures that relationship continues and grows each time a comic is released.”

The titles launched on the Apple Newsstand, powered by Graphicly, and available immediately include such hit comic books as:

  • The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman and  Charlie Adlard from Image Comics
  • Savage Dragon by Erik Larsen, from Image Comics
  • Irredeemable by Mark Waid and Peter Krause from BOOM! Studios
  • Invincible by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley from Image Comics
  • Morning Glories by Nick Spencer and Joe Eisma from Image Comics
  • Near Death by Jay Faerber and Simone Guglielmini from Image Comics

Graphicly has partnered with the top publishers to ensure individual comics are released for purchase on a regular schedule.

 

About Graphicly

Graphicly is a cutting-edge entertainment digital content delivery system and community platform, providing an immersive solution to tell, share and collaborate around story. With more than 300 publishers and 4,000 creators from major publishers such as Marvel Comics, Image Comics, BOOM! Studios, Top Cow and IDW Publishing to indie creators from around the globe, Graphicly is the leading story-telling and sharing platform online.  The Graphicly Network includes dozens of leading websites and blogs, mobile applications including the iPhone, iPad and Android devices including the Barnes and Noble NOOKcolor and the Amazon Kindle Fire; and an industry leading HTML5 web app. For more information, please visit www.graphicly.com

Art Spiegelman On The Future of the Book

Posted by :Michael Nimmo On : October 13, 2011
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PWCW: Is this your first foray into the digital realm?

 

SPIEGELMAN:  I use digits for most of my comics making these days, and for designing the books themselves. The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them—the “physical book,” a new phrase in our language—is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.

 

I had a CD-ROM called The Complete Maus that came out back in ’93 or ’94. It was pretty amazing, even though I didn’t attend much how it was made, because I didn’t have to. Now I fully appreciate how good a job they did at Voyager, which was a cutting edge company. That was something that I always wanted to reconstruct after I found out A. how useful it was and B. how in-demand it was.

 

Even now, as I go to lecture, I come across a university every now and then that has someone who keeps their 1999 machine in shape, so that they can use the CD-ROM, because the language it was written in is now more difficult to decode than Aramaic. It couldn’t be further away from something that anyone could use. Originally I was told that it could be mounted on another platform. That’s gibberish. That has nothing to do with what can be done. What someone can do is re-write it the same way.

 

There’s a Borges story about the guy who rewrote Don Quixote, word for word. Well, the first half of the DVD is sort of a recapitulation, using some of the same things that were in the first version, including the design architecture, making it available for now—and it’s all done in state of the art 2002 technology. Because that, for the moment, is still stable, and it will remain stable for the next few years, while computers still have slots to put DVDs in.

 

The language it’s written in, unlike the language that, say, the iPad is using, is really stable for a long time, which is maybe five years at the most, based on what we’re going through in this highly accelerated era. It’s been written in way that, our best guess is, it can accommodate what comes next like the cloud as ways of disseminating things like this.

 

But if it wasn’t for this, I wouldn’t have a digital component. I certainly haven’t made comics directly for the iPad like Chris Ware has, recently.

 

via Art Spiegelman On The Future of the Book.

Buy: It’s Nearly Halloween – Zombies

Posted by :Michael Nimmo On : October 13, 2011
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As we’re on the build up to Halloween lets see what my affiliate friends over at Fobidden Planet have to offer!

The Walking Dead is one of the zombie comics – and with the second series already underway, here are a few costumes you can get!

They also have a competition going to get a full face make-over from FX expert Tom Lauten from Nimba Creations LIVE in our Shaftesbury Avenue store on Saturday 29th October!
Check that out here!

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Forbidden Planet also have many other awesome costumes here

Graphicly: Holy Terror, In Maps & Legends & More!

Posted by :Michael Nimmo On : October 13, 2011
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Graphicly have released their list of titles released in the last week and their latest titles today!

This week you can also get a digital preview of Frank Millar’s – Holy Terror


Released today!

Archaia
Artesia V2: Afield #6
Artesia: Afield V2 GN

Image Comics
CBLDF Liberty Annual 2011
Blue Estate #6
Morning Glories #13 
Pigs #2
Super Dinosaur #5
Who Is Jake Ellis? #5

Legendary Comics
Frank Miller’s Holy Terror FREE Preview

Top Cow
Pilot Season 2011: City of Refuge

UnWrecked Press
In Maps & Legends: The Complete Series  
Released in the last week:

Clown Commando Creators At Wizard World

Posted by :Michael Nimmo On : October 13, 2011
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Just announced – the guys behind soundie comic for the iPhone – Clown Commandos are going to be at Wizard World.

This just in!!! Scott and Ant will be appearing at Wizard World Comic Con in Austin, Texas!

This will be our second rare convention appearance so if you missed us at Houston’sComicpalooza and find yourself in Hill Country around November 11th – 13th, then swing by Artist Alley and say hi!

Check them out!

Newsarama.com : ARCHIE Execs on New DIGITAL Approach to RED CIRCLE Heroes

Posted by :Michael Nimmo On : October 13, 2011
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An interesting read, and I’m looking forward to seeing the new/old characters from Archie!

 

 

As Newsarama readers probably recall — since the comics are barely off the shelves — DC attempted to integrate the Red Circle superhero characters into their own line-up by launching several new ongoings in 2009. That effort arguably failed, since the new line of comics barely lasted a year.

While DC’s attempt didn’t keep past continuity, Archie’s new concept for their Red Circle superheroes does maintain past continuity for the characters, although they will appear in a new comic called The New Crusaders. Yet the biggest difference between DC’s attempt and Archie’s new approach is that these comics are now being branded and distributed specifically for a digital audience.

Through the new subscription service, readers interested in The New Crusaders and other Red Circle characters can sign up for an estimated three to four dollars a month to gain access to new six-page weekly comics, as well as a huge archive of past Red Circle stories.

Read the rest at:

Newsarama.com : ARCHIE Execs on New DIGITAL Approach to RED CIRCLE Heroes.

Dark Horse: Mass Effect, Star Wars & The Green River Killer

Posted by :Michael Nimmo On : October 13, 2011
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Dark Horse Digital have released their latest titles available online or on your iOS app!

One of the highlights this week is Mass Effect:

First off, we got a BigBundle of Mass Effect!The next Mass Effect series, Invasion, starts next week, and you can get caught up on the first two series for only $9.99! Plus, check out the free eight-page preview of the first issue ofInvasion now! Oh! One more little Mass Effecttreat for you too. A special double feature of eight-page stories, “Incursion” and “Inquisition”, for only 99 cents! It’s Mass EffectMania!!

A day and date title this week is Orchid:

Orchid hits both print and digital shelves today! From the mind of musician Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, The Nightwatchman) with art by Scott Hepburn (Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic), Orchid is the tale of a teenage prostitute who learns that she is more than the role society has imposed upon her. Check out this awesome new comic now!

In addition to all that, we have previews of two more new titles coming from Dark Horse soon. The eight-page preview of House of Night by P.C. Cast is now available, as well as Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan’s The Strain! If you like vampires, be sure to check these out!

Other honorable mentions this week include,Green River Killer, a true life crime story based on the murders near Seattle. And finally, just in time for the movie opening this Friday, all three issues of The Thing are now available!