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EXCLUSIVE! Mark Waid talks Marvel Infinite, Thrillbent 2.0, the future of digital comics and Kingdom Come the iPad app! | Pipedream Comics

Posted by :Michael Nimmo On : February 13, 2013
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Having written some of the finest comic stories of all time (Kingdom Come, Flash, JLA, Daredevil, Superman), superstar comic writer Mark Waid turned his back on print in 2012 and declared his allegiance to the world of digital. Over the past 12 months he has established himself as the true godfather of digital comics, thanks to the launch of Marvel’s Infinite series, but also with his creator owned web portal Thrillbent and its lead title Insufferable. As one of the most high profile advocates of the brave new world of digital publishing we asked Mark the secrets to a great digital comic and where things are heading in 2013?

What was the inspiration for setting up Thrillbent? Was it intended as way for you to write and publish the books you wanted to without relying on a major publisher? Or was it as a way to help dip your toe on the emerging world of digital comics?

MW: Originally, the former–it was a reaction to the staggering print costs faced by smaller publishers that will probably only rise. And it was also to prove my conviction that the future of the market is the shift away from Big Distributors and towards a smaller economy that’s a direct link between artists and their audience. But honestly, as we began to pull Thrillbent together and I began producing more material, I got more into the actual content–into the process that enables you to tell a story differently in digital.

Read the rest of the interview at: EXCLUSIVE! Mark Waid talks Marvel Infinite, Thrillbent 2.0, the future of digital comics and Kingdom Come the iPad app! | Pipedream Comics.

Delcourt Group & ComiXology Sign an Agreement for Digital Distribution

Posted by :Michael Nimmo On : January 31, 2013
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Delcourt Group & comiXology sign an agreement for digital distribution

Delcourt Group (Editions Delcourt, Soleil Productions & Tonkam) & comiXology announce their partnership with the launch of an updated version of Walking Dead iOS app, including the 17th volume published by Delcourt in French.

January 31, 2013 – Paris, France / New York, NY – During the Angoulême International Comic Book Festival, Delcourt Group, the leading independent comic book group on the French market (17.4% market share), announced its agreement to distribute its catalog on digital through comiXology, the revolutionary digital comics platform (with more than 30,000 comics and graphic novels from 75 publishers).

Based in the United States with a new office to open in Paris, comiXology offers the widest selection of English language digital comics and graphic novels worldwide. Combining multiplatform accessibility with an amazing shopping and reading experience – through Guided View – comiXology’s iPad app is the only app to make Apple’s Top Ten Grossing iPad list for 2 years consecutively.

To celebrate the announcement, comiXology has released an updated version of its popularWalking Dead iOS app that not only includes a French language interface but also all of Delcourt’s previously published French language collected editions – including the 17th volume that Delcourt just released on January 30th. All 17 French language volumes of The Walking Dead will also be available for purchase across comiXology’s entire platform including iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire, Windows 8 & the Web in certain European markets with plans to expand worldwide shortly.

The entire catalog of digital Editions Delcourt and Soleil (600 titles currently 1200 to end of 2013) will be progressively online in the first half of 2013 throughout the comiXology platform. ComiXology and Delcourt also plan to launch an application dedicated to Lanfeust of Troyand other Arleston series attached to this universe.

This agreement is part of a strategic approach, for each partner: an international push for comiXology and a sustained growth in the digital world for the Delcourt Group.

About comiXology :
Founded in 2007 with the mission of bringing comics to people everywhere, comiXology has revolutionized the comic book and graphic novel world. With the development of the comiXology digital comics platform – with buy-once, read-anywhere availability acrossiPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire, Windows 8 & the Web – comiXology provides the easiest way worldwide for people to enjoy comics anywhere they happen to be! Regularly ranking as the top grossing iPad app in the entire iTunes App Store, comiXology is one of the leading drivers of the iPad economy. Providing the most digital comics on the most devices, comiXology will not stop until everyone on the face of the planet has been turned into a comic book fan.

About Delcourt :
Delcourt was the first major group to offer its comic books through Apple’s iBookstore in December 2011, with Hachette distributing it digitally.
With an extensive catalog of more than 6500 titles (3000 for Delcourt, 2300 for Soleil & 1200 for Tonkam), Delcourt Group has earned 56 million euros revenue. With a market share of 17.4%, it is the second largest and the first independent French comic book group.

Hellboy in Hell: Print vs. Digital | Jim Rugg

Posted by :Michael Nimmo On : January 25, 2013
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Mike Mignola returned to monthly comic books with Hellboy in Hell (December 2012). He hasn’t drawn a regular Hellboy series since The Island in 2005. I enjoy his storytelling, drawing style, humor, and design so I was excited when Hellboy in Hell #1 hit shelves. I can not remember the last time I went to a comic book shop to buy a new comic book on new comic book day. This was going to be great!

Except, it wasn’t.

I was a little disappointed but couldn’t figure out why because Mignola’s drawing and storytelling were great as usual. When I spoke to Jasen Lex about it, I learned he thought the new comic was fantastic. After a brief conversation, I realized that Lex had read a digital copy (on his beautiful Mac display) while I had read a print copy.

We decided to compare his digital copy and my print copy page by page, panel by panel.

I found the digital copy stunning in comparison. The subtle palette’s warm and cool colors complimented Mignola’s immaculate compositions and storytelling in ways I had missed on my readings of the print edition. *(It should be noted that the digital copy also lends itself to zooming in and out of the artwork and focusing on individual panels, as a fan of Mignola’s compositional choices and drawing, this definitely adds to my enjoyment.)

I had to take back all the negative thoughts I had been sending Dave Stewart’s direction. Each panel and page looked great.

But the print edition now looked even worse compared with the digital copy.

Read the rest at and see the examples at: Hellboy in Hell: Print vs. Digital | Jim Rugg.

Kenya’s first digital comic launched today. Here’s the debut episode (part one) | Ghafla!Kenya

Posted by :Michael Nimmo On : January 25, 2013
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Comic books and magazines have been common among the youth for the longest time, but in this digital world we live in right now, everything is evolving.

Kenya’s first digital comic titled ‘Hillside Campus’ has just been launched. Its debut episode has officially been published on Capital Campus, a section featured on the Capital FM website for campus matters.

The comic is about a group of campus students who live life on the fast lane as they study and build their lives. Graphics of this comic have been done by Movin Were. Vince Matinde is the guy behind the interesting and captivating story line which, when you look at it with a keen eye, reflects to what happens in our campus institutions.

Here is the synopsis and the first episode of the new ‘HillSide Campus’ digital comic.

 

Three campus dudes, Davy, Simo and Kevin are your normal campus buddies. Well not quite. They are more adventurous and almost moronic in their quest to spice up their lives in campus away from their homes.

In their second year in campus, there is a mystery of a disappearance of a third year girl. Five months later, they stumble on the girl’s secret blog diary. They get embroiled in the case as they follow her personal blog where she has left clues and to what could have led to her disappearance.

On her secret blog, she has described different characters in the campus. From lecturers who had advances on her, her ex boyfriends, the scams going on in the campus, the boy she liked and everyone who had threatened her etc.

But her blog is full of various issues any that would have led her to her death. The three decide to follow up on the clues that she has left to unveil the mystery, but they get more than they bargained for…

Apart from following the girl’s blog, the three students get in trouble with their lecturers for their behavior. Love and relationships are poured into the mix and this makes their life in campus more they could have imagined.

via Kenya’s first digital comic launched today. Here’s the debut episode (part one) | Ghafla!Kenya.

Read all of Kyle Baker’s graphic novels online for FREE

Posted by :Michael Nimmo On : January 24, 2013
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For reasons unknown—but probably just for the good of society—Kyle Baker (Deadpool, Plasic Man) has put most of his creator-owned body of work online for FREE including early classics, THE COWBOY WALLY SHOW and WHY I HATE SATURN, and later works I Die at Midnight, King David, The Bakers, Special Forces, Nat Turner and more. This is a treasure trove of reading (although some of the scans are a bit small—but who cares: it’s free.)

Wally and Why I Hate Saturn were among the first standalone graphic novels of the post-Maus era and remain as biting and hilarious as when they were written. Cowboy Wally is a behind-the-music look at a kids entertainer, from his early years to his production of Hamlet behind bars. It’s also one of the funniest comics of al times. Saturn is just as funny, a social satire about dating in the 90s that exists in a world long gone by—a long ago place where sexting and OK Cupid didn’t exist—but still hilarious.

Consider these two must reads—both for content and the influence they had on the emerging graphic novel genre—but don’t miss the rest either:

YOU ARE HERE—a man with the perfect life has to figure out how to tell his fiancee about his secret past as a criminal.

I DIE AT MIDNIGHT—a mad who has taken poison has to find the antidote before midnight in this Y2K thriller.

SPECIAL FORCES—savage satire about the our wars in the Middle East as the Army employs special needs troops.

NAT TURNER—the history of the rebel slave

KING DAVID—a retelling of the biblical tale

THE BAKERS—family humor

HOW TO DRAW STUPID —drawing tips for the intelligent

There’s much more at Baker’s website if you poke around.

via Read all of Kyle Baker’s graphic novels online for FREE.

Devil May Cry Comic Hits Digital Today, But Print Will Have To Wait Four Months – Bleeding Cool

Posted by :Michael Nimmo On : January 24, 2013
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Titan Comics is publishing a translated-to-English French licensed comic based on the game, Devil May Cry, by Guillaume Dorison aka Izu, Robin Recht and Patrick Pion.

The first part of DmC: Devil May Cry: The Vergil Chronicles is released digitally today alongside the release of the new game DmC: Devil May Cry, with the concluding second chapter to follow. A prequel to the game, the comic reveals the backstory of Vergil and Kat, and are regarded as game continuity.

The print issues of the same comic will only be published in May and June.

via Devil May Cry Comic Hits Digital Today, But Print Will Have To Wait Four Months – Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors.

Evil Inc on Comixology!

Posted by :Michael Nimmo On : December 30, 2012
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This is great news and further blurring of the lines between webcomics and digital comics.
I enjoy Evil Inc – its daily strips keep me entertained and hopefully if you haven’t read it, then the option to read it on Comixology will help!

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I’m really excited to announce that there will soon be another way to get Evil Inc comics on your digital device. Comixology has started carrying the Evil Inc monthly comic as part of its creator-owned division.

You can find October’s issue — the Real Housewives of Transylvania

Andrews McMeel Publishing & ComiXology Announce Digital Distribution Deal

Posted by :Michael Nimmo On : December 20, 2012
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Andrews McMeel Publishing & ComiXology
Announce Digital Distribution Deal 

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Perennial favorites like Dilbert, Doonesbury, Big Nate are now available today across
comiXology’s entire revolutionary digital comics platform!

December 19, 2012 – Kansas City, MO – New York, NY – New York, NY – Andrews McMeel Publishing (AMP), the premier producer of cutting-edge comics and best-selling humor, cookbook, gift, and nonfiction books, has today announced a digital distribution agreement with comiXology – the revolutionary digital comics platform available across the  iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire, Windows 8 and the Web, that also boasts the consistently top grossing iPad app in the entire iTunes app store.

AMP and comiXology celebrate this announcement with a launch featuring a select group of perennial favorites, including office drone hero Dilbert, by Scott Adams, the incomparable and iconic Doonesbury, by Garry Trudeau, and colorful sixth-grade star Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce across comiXology’s entire platform. Additional AMP releases will be available in future months.

“We are thrilled to bring our cutting-edge, world-renowned comics and best-selling humor books to comiXology’s global audience,” said Kirsty Melville, Publisher and President, Book Division. “Andrews McMeel prides itself on publishing exceptional and innovative content, and making it available to consumers wherever and however they choose to read. This digital engagement with comiXology, through their innovative buying and reading experience, provides a perfect way for new audiences to discover our titles.”

“Andrews McMeel represents extraordinary talent that is outstanding in the industry, to which we’re happy to add our amazing reading experience and global reach to engender an even bigger fan base for Andrews McMeel,” said co-founder and CEO David Steinberger. “We’ve become the dominant digital comics platform available today by creating a unique experience that we’re sure fans will love!”

Most recently comiXology was announced as iTunes’ #3 top grossing iPad app of 2012 and is the only app repeated in the top ten in both 2011 and 2012.

About Andrews McMeel Publishing
Andrews McMeel Publishing has a passion for publishing original talent, delighting consumers with innovative books and gifts that are worth sharing.

AMP fall highlights include: How To Tell If Your Cat is Plotting To Kill You, Pearls Freaks the #*%# Out, and I Can’t Remember if We’re Cheap or Smart by New York Times Best Selling authors Matthew Inman (The Oatmeal), Stephan Pastis (Pearls Before Swine), and Scott Adams (Dilbert); Fire in My Belly by Top Chef finalist Kevin Gillespie; Canal House Cooks Every Day by Melissa Hamilton and Christopher Hirsheimer; monthly additions to the bestselling Pocket Posh ® Puzzles series, and the introduction of the AMP! Comics for Kids series.

AMP is also the nation’s top calendar publisher, annually producing calendars based on many top-selling properties and selling more than 15 million calendars each year.

About comiXology
Founded in 2007 with the mission of bringing comics to people everywhere, comiXology has revolutionized the comic book and graphic novel world. With the development of the comiXology digital comics platform – with buy-once, read-anywhere availability across across iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire, Windows 8 and the Web— comiXology provides the easiest way worldwide for people to enjoy comics anywhere they happen to be! Regularly ranking as the top grossing iPad app in the entire iTunes App Store, comiXology is one of the leading drivers of the iPad economy. Providing the most digital comics on the most devices, comiXology will not stop until everyone on the face of the planet has been turned into a comic book fan.

Marvel Reads Spider-Man AR Book App

Posted by :Michael Nimmo On : July 4, 2012
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From Marvel Comics another AR app to add to their arsenal:

Marvel Reads Spider-Man AR Book App

Whether you’re a fan of the “Amazing Spider-Man” movie or a lifelong comic collector, you won’t want to miss on the latest release in the Marvel Reads storybook app family: Spider-Man AR Book app for Apple iPhone and iPads.  Kids of all ages will enjoy all the weberific features that Marvel Reads storybook apps have to offer.

-Immerse yourself in Spider-Man origin story with interactive features, Read-to-Me narration
-Play half dozen games that utilize Augmented Reality to bring Spider-Man’s world on your iPad or iPhone!
-Take a photo of yourself and become a member of Oscorp or Peter Parker himself!
-Become Spider-Man by using the Spidey Mask and Spidey-Sense AR features!

Don’t wait any longer.  Get your Marvel Reads Spider-Man AR book app today.  Don’t forget to check out our other exciting apps such as Avengers Origins: Assemble, Avengers Origins: Hulk and Spider-Man: An Origin Story.

More on Marvel.com: http://marvel.com/news/story/19006/marvel_reads_spider-man_ar_book_app#ixzz1zdxL17Cq

Amazon Gets Dilbert and Doonesbury Digital Comic Anthologies: Kindle Fire Exclusive | Ubergizmo

Posted by :Michael Nimmo On : June 1, 2012
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Amazon today announced that two anthologies of Doonesbury as well as Dilbert comic strips will be available for purchase for their first time in digital format as a Kindle Fire exclusive. In a deal between the company and Publishing company Andrews McMeel, Kindle Fire users will be able to purchase Garry Trudeau’s “40: A Doonesbury Retrospective” as well as Scott Adams’ “Dilbert 2.0” for $9.99 and $7.99 respectively.

Both titles will have four separate volumes. This announcement comes in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of Doonesbury as well as the 20th anniversary of Dilbert and Amazon is planning to make the most of the display on the Kindle Fire by making the digitized comics available in full color with Kindle Panel View. If users find it hard to maneuver through the strips, Dilbert is on hand to provide some tips. Please don’t focus too much on the rhyming words in the last sentence.

Moving forward, Kindle Content’s Vice President of Content, Russ Grandinetti said, “These deluxe collections from Garry Trudeau and Scott Adams have been customer favorites in print, but have never been available in digital format. We’re thrilled to be able to offer this work from two such iconic satirists exclusively to Kindle Fire customers.” The CEO of Andrews McMeel, Hugh Andrews added on that this new format is a viable chance to bring these comic strips to a “new audience”.

via Amazon Gets Dilbert and Doonesbury Digital Comic Anthologies: Kindle Fire Exclusive | Ubergizmo.

Dreamworks Comic Book App To Launch | Bleeding Cool

Posted by :Michael Nimmo On : May 31, 2012
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Bleeding Cool understands that Ape Entertainment is about to launch a DreamWorks Animation Comics App for iPad and iPhone on Apple’s App Store.

The free app includes 40 pages of free comics including previews, prequels, short stories and more from Ape Entertainment’s Dreamworks comics such as Kung Fu Panda, Megamind, The Penguins of Madagascar, Puss In Boots and Shrek.

The app was created with iVerse Media and is also compatible with the iPad retina display. Most comics will be priced at $1.99, or free, and available through In-App purchase.

Look for it tonight… or tomorrow, whichever gets there sooner.

via Dreamworks Comic Book App To Launch | Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors.

In New Digital Comic Books, Every Tap Brings a Surprise – NYTimes.com

Posted by :Michael Nimmo On : May 31, 2012
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“AVENGERS VS. X-MEN” is giving fans what they have long come to expect from Marvel Comics: epic slugfests and earth-shattering perils rendered vividly on the page by prominent writers and artists. But this time around, the publisher has added something new: its first Infinite Comic, a digital-only prelude to “Avengers vs. X-Men” that was released with issue No. 1 of the print series last month. It represents another step by the comic book industry toward embracing the digital format, and one that holds the potential to push traditional comic book storytelling to a new level.

 

Marvel has issued its first Infinite Comic, a digital-only prelude to the “Avengers vs. X-Men” series that began publishing in print last month.

“This is the first time we’ve created a comic book story for the hand-held device,” said Axel Alonso, Marvel’s editor in chief. “It keeps all the familiar conventions of the comic book — panels, borders, captions and balloons. But it’s not animation — there’s no voice-over, there’s no score — and, most importantly, the reader still controls the experience.”

Read the rest at: In New Digital Comic Books, Every Tap Brings a Surprise – NYTimes.com.

EXCLUSIVE: Damon Lindelof On His And Jeff Lemire’s “Batman” Digital Comic – Comic Book Resources

Posted by :Michael Nimmo On : May 18, 2012
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As part of DC Comics’ ever-expanding online empire, in April the publisher announced a new “Batman” digital series which will feature stand alone stories by all-star creative teams like B. Clay Moore and Ben Templesmith; Jeff Parker and Gabriel Hardman and Joshua Hale Fialkov and Phil Hester. But the dynamic duo that had everyone seeking out the proverbial Bat-Signal was Hollywood heavyweight Damon Lindelof and multiple Eisner Award nominee Jeff Lemire.

For those who missed Oceanic Airlines Flight 815, Lindelof co-created “Lost” with J.J. Abrams and Jeffrey Lieber and is now a highly influential writer/producer having worked on such tentpole projects as “Cowboys & Aliens,” “Star Trek” and Ridley Scott’s “Alien” prequel “Prometheus,” which will be released on June 8.

Lemire’s star has also risen mercurially the last few years as the Canadian cartoonist has told epic stories with some of DC’s second(“Superboy”), third (“Animal Man”) and even fourth-tier (“Frankenstein, Agent of S.H.A.D.E. “) superheroes. But it was his creator-owned Vertigo series “Sweet Tooth”, which he writes and illustrates, that captured Lindelof’s eye.

After Lindelof tweeted about the series shortly after its debut, the two became friends, leading the Hollywood power player to write the introduction to Lemire’s forthcoming graphic novel, “The Underwater Welder.”

Lindelof told CBR News exclusively that his obsession of all things Lemire is what lured him to the Batcave, but as a long-time fan of the Dark Knight, writing the Dark Knight Detective is also a childhood dream come true.

The master storyteller also shared which Batman comics influenced him growing up in Teaneck, New Jersey, which part of the Dark Knight’s lore drives his and Lemire’s story and why writing digital comics is the perfect part-time medium for him.

Read the interview at: EXCLUSIVE: Damon Lindelof On His And Jeff Lemire’s “Batman” Digital Comic – Comic Book Resources.

iVerse CEO Michael Murphey on the other digital comics | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources

Posted by :Michael Nimmo On : May 18, 2012
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Michael Murphy gives some great interviews and it’s interesting to hear his thoughts on digital comics:

Over the past few weeks, we’ve had a barrage of press releases from comiXology about exclusive deals it’s made with publishers, including, most recently, an agreement with Marvel to digitally distribute single-issue comics. That made me think about the digital comics market as a whole, and how these exclusives would affect the other big digital distributor, iVerse. So I called and asked.

What I was surprised to hear was that iVerse CEO Michael Murphey isn’t particularly bothered by these exclusives. That’s because he doesn’t see iVerse as going head to head with comiXology; he sees them as serving different markets in different ways, and the exclusives don’t affect them as much as you might think. Read on to get his very different take on the digital comics market.

Robot 6: I’m going to just ask you point-blank: comiXology has announced a number of exclusives lately, which shuts you out of part of the comics market. What does that mean for iVerse and for Diamond Digital, and what will you do about it?

Michael Murphey: There’s a couple of things that are going on right now. ComiXology, it seems to me, is trying to recreate the direct market in digital form. That’s not where iVerse has ever been. We have always thought of ourselves as a newsstand rather than the direct market. We do better than most people think because most of our customers are not direct market customers. We sell a ton of children’s product through Comics Plus Kids, we have Archie Comics and we have Pocket God comics—one thing you are going to see is we are launching that New Crusaders product with Archie. We are also rebranding our app and launching web and Android versions before the end of the month.

Our library program is going to be a very large revenue generator for ourselves. We announced it three or four weeks ago, and the response from the library community has been overwhelming. And all those places are different things we are doing that are finding new readers, reaching out to where the new readers are.

Marvel and iVerse have a good relationship. We haven’t ever sold day-and-date product for Marvel. We have always sold either single issues or graphic novels, and since we switched to graphic novels a month ago, our Marvel sales are better than they have ever been. We have started focusing on graphic novels — not just with Marvel; we have graphic novels with a lot of people. The graphic novels have done very well. The higher price point actually works really well for customers who aren’t direct market customers because they are used to e-book prices. The price of a graphic novel is comparable to an e-book price, so that is not bothersome to them. That is very exciting, and it is directing some of the ways we are modifying ourselves as we go along to accommodate that kind of customer.

The other thing we are doing that is a big focus for us that we believe has a tremendous amount of potential is the non-English language market. We will be making an announcement soon. It’s something we have been doing for a while, and some of those markets are pretty exciting. When you look at movies that are comic book based, look at the money they are making overseas in non-English-language areas, there’s a tremendous amount of opportunity in those places, and we are excited about that for the entire industry.

Read the rest at: iVerse CEO Michael Murphey on the other digital comics | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment.

ICv2 – Image’s Digital Sales Are a ‘Double Digit Percentage’

Posted by :Michael Nimmo On : May 16, 2012
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ICv” have an interesting interview up – and the figures about digital sales caught my eye!

We recently caught up with Image Publisher Eric Stephenson to talk about the comics market and Image’s place in it.  In Part 2 of this three part interview, Stephenson talks about the digital and graphic novel portions of the market, and reveals that digital is now a “double digit percentage” of Image’s sales.  In Part 3, Stephenson talked about what makes Image unique, and argues that “over the last 20 years, you can’t point to anything new that has been created by Marvel and DC that’s had any lasting impact.”  And in Part 1, Stephenson talked about his view of the comics market, including the revelation that Saga #1’s four printings now total around 70,000 copies, and discusses what numbers are revealed and what they tell us. 

 

Can you characterize digital as a percentage of your sales?

It varies title per title.  The overall percentage is small.  There are books that do very well and there are books that, for whatever reason, don’t do as well digitally.

 

Single digit percentages?

Oh no.  There are titles that do single digits, but overall I would say digital is a double digit percentage of sales.

Read the rest at: ICv2 – Image’s Digital Sales Are a ‘Double Digit Percentage’.