Halloween may be over, but the digital comics folks still have some treats on hand. Sandman: Overture, Neil Gaiman's prequel to his classic Sandman series, debuted this week; if you want to get the rest of the story, comiXology has the 115 issues of the original Sandman available for 99 cents each. Looks like Amazon has the same deal if you prefer to read them on your … [Read more...] about Digital Comics Bargains for the Weekend of November 1
Mark Waid
The Digital Comics Surprise: Sales Are Up, While Print Stays Stable
One of the iconic moments of recent comics history occurred at the February 2011 meeting of ComicsPRO, the association for comics retailers. During that meeting, DC co-publisher Jim Lee held up a sheet of typing paper and a piece of dental floss as a visual analogy for the relative sizes of the print and digital markets. If he did that today, he could replace the dental … [Read more...] about The Digital Comics Surprise: Sales Are Up, While Print Stays Stable
ComiXology Ends the Year with a Flurry of Activity
Mark Waid is finding comiXology irresistible. Waid, the writer of the Eisner award-winning Daredevil as well as the acclaimed comics Irredeemable and Incorruptible, attracted quite a bit of attention earlier this year when he launched the digital comics site Thrillbent. Waid doesn't just write comics, he thinks hard about making them, and Thrillbent is both a place to read … [Read more...] about ComiXology Ends the Year with a Flurry of Activity