Panel Nine apps are sort of the iPad equivalent of coffee table books. Elegantly designed, with a deluxe feel, each one presents a graphic novel or the work of a single creator as a single standalone app. If comiXology is the digital equivalent of a comics shop, geared toward the way comics fans think (Wednesday releases, single-issue comics, heavy emphasis on superheroes), … [Read more...] about Interview: Russell Willis on the Digital Edition of The Phoenix
The Phoenix
The Phoenix Comic Goes Digital
At long last, the rest of us are getting a look at the acclaimed British children's comic The Phoenix. I have been looking longingly at this comic since it launched in late 2011. A full-color, high-quality weekly, it featured series by Neill Cameron, Jamie Smart, Sarah McIntyre, and a host of other talented British artists. But you couldn't get The Phoenix on the internet or … [Read more...] about The Phoenix Comic Goes Digital
Comics Apps with a British Accent
When I was a kid, I loved British comics, but I couldn't get them very often. I lived in Scotland the year I was five, and I spent occasional summers in Ireland, but aside from those glorious periods of my life, I depended on my Irish relatives to send us comics a couple of times a year. They would arrive in huge cylindrical bundles, rolled and wrapped in brown paper, tied with … [Read more...] about Comics Apps with a British Accent