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SXSW: ComiXology Wants To Help Little Guys, Big Guys, And Everyone In Between Make Comic Books

Justin Davis — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 01:37:29 +0000

A trio sits on a humble stage, tucked away in the SXSW Gaming Expo, while literal bells and whistles go off in the background. Co-founder and CEO of ComiXology, Davis Steinberger, moderates a panel consisting of himself, fellow co-founder John Roberts, and indie comic book creator and ex-Austinite Shannon Wheeler (Too Much Coffee Man, Oil […]

Pre-SXSW: Marvel Comics Is A Big Tease For SXSW Interactive

Justin Davis — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 21:00:28 +0000

What exactly is Marvel planning for SXSW 2013? For the last few weeks, the entertainment giant has been hinting at a mysterious first it plans to announce at the festival. Last year saw the release of Marvel ReEvolution during the SXSW Interactive’s ScreenBurn Arcade (now simply called SXSW Gaming Expo). Marvel ReEvolution was revealed to […]

It’s A Bird! It’s A plane! It’s Digital Distribution!

Ben Masten — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 22:35:53 +0000

If you were a teenage comic book geek in the 1990s, you probably remember the slightly tentative steps that publishers like Marvel and DC took toward digital distribution of their products. Browser-based, semi-animated webcomics were a weird little ghetto within the comic book industry, a way to give some low-risk exposure to unknown writers and […]

Marvel Tries For A Digital Revolution With Infinite Comics

Jeremy Goldstone — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:57:56 +0000

For the past week, Marvel Comics’s new initiative, Infinite Comics, has been the biggest secret this side of Daredevil’s secret identity (which if that’s too much of an in-joke for you, you really should be reading Mark Waid’s excellent Daredevil series). Today, at SXSW Interactive’ s ScreenBurn Arcade, the company that brought you the X-Men, Spider-Man, […]

A Digital First As DC Comics Goes Digital First

Mordechai Osdoby — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:24:46 +0000

A lot of us are comic book fans here at Techcitement. One of our earliest posts was about DC Comics digital initiative and we just posted yesterday about the upcoming comic book industry tablet war. Now, DC ups the ante a tad. Batman Beyond, one of their first comics to go day-and-date is now going […]