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Disney recently introduced for the iPhone/iPod touch, Disney Digicomics — a collection of the most successful Disney comic books from around the world. The app allows users to choose from dozens of comics including Mickey Mouse’s epic adventures in Wizards of Mickey; Casablanca, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer starring your favorite Disney characters.
The App features:
* Two free downloads from the Digistore: Disney’s A Christmas Carol featuring Scrooge McDuck, and SuperDuck.
* The ability to purchase and download additional comics from the Digistore. It’s loaded with dozens of comics including complete sets and volumes — look for new comics every week. Search characters and categories or browse Featured and Top Rated comics. Prices range from $0.99 to $1.99
* Digicomics is tailor made for the collector. Collect complete sets of comics by character or category. You can even share pictures of your comics with friends.
* Read your comics by scrolling pages or choose the Autoplay function and custom set your reading speed. Includes a handy Bookmark feature.
* Includes comics from acclaimed writers and artists such as Stefano Ambrosio, Lorenzo Pastrovicchio, Giorgio Cavazzno, and many more.
New comics now available for purchase in the App include:
* A Christmas Carol #2
* Donald Duck Agent Qu-Qu 7: A Diamond Jam
* Mickey Mouse and the Flavored Bubbles
* Scrooge McDuck and the Saint Valentine Trick
* Superduck #2 Toyland
* The Canterville Ghost
Since the App is free, we encourage you to check it out, along with the two free downloads from the Digistore: Disney’s A Christmas Carol featuring Scrooge McDuck, and SuperDuck. Digicomics is also available on Sony’s PlayStation Portable (PSP) through the PlayStation Network’s Digital Comics Service which launched in December 2009.
Todd McFarlane Productions and Phoenix Comicon are partnering to create ‘The McFarlane Phoenix Comicon Film Challenge’. This unique event will feature independent fan films set in the McFarlane universe with McFarlane created characters. Films will be screened during the Phoenix Comicon, to be held May 27th- 30th at the Phoenix Convention Center.
“McFarlane characters such as Spawn and Violator have inspired a generation of fans and creators alike,” said Programming Director Joe Boudrie. “This competition will bring those characters into Phoenix Comicon in new and interesting ways, providing filmmakers their first-ever opportunity to enter the McFarlane universe as creators.”
Phoenix Comicon is seeking original films to be shown at Phoenix Comicon in a film competition judged by the McFarlane Companies and Phoenix Comicon. In addition to the opportunity to screen films in front of an audience at the Phoenix Comicon, prizes will be awarded, with the Grand Prize winner receiving a one-on-one film review from Todd McFarlane personally.
Submissions must include McFarlane created characters (from Spawn, Cy-Gor, Violator, Sam and Twitch) in leading roles and the scripts and films must be original work. Films of any type (animated, live action, CGI, etc.) or style (horror, drama, comedy, action, noir, etc.) will be accepted. See official submission form for further details.
Submissions may be up to 15 minutes long. Submissions will be accepted through April 27th and jointly judged by McFarlane and Phoenix Comicon staff. No unlicensed copyrighted material may be used in the entries (including music, images and any other copyrighted content). All Submissions need to be submitted in standard (US) DVD format. All submitted films become sole property of Todd McFarlane Productions. Films will be screened during the Phoenix Comicon which will be held May 27th- 30th at the Phoenix Convention Center. Prizes will be awarded during the convention, but filmmakers do not need to be present to win.
Todd McFarlane, the creator of Spawn, is a multi-faceted artist and businessman with a broad range of experience in entertainment, sports and publishing. McFarlane originally became a superstar among comic book fans and creators due to his work on Marvel Comics Spider-Man franchise. The Spawn series has inspired a generation of artists and helped encourage a trend in creator-owned comic book properties. He’s also a high-profile collector of history-making baseballs.
Phoenix Comicon is the signature pop culture event of the Southwest. For more information visit www.phoenixcomicon.com.
SLG Publishing will host another in it’s workshop series for aspiring comic book creators on March 6th 2010. The Creator’s Studio Workshop is a series of panel discussions instructional workshops and portfolio reviews held in the SLG Office/warehouse in San Jose CA. The day long event will cover subjects from writing for comics, to thinking visually to simple discussions how certain creators approached the craft. ” I feel like the Creator’s Workshop is one of the best events we put on during the year” said SLG President Dan Vado “I have been blown away by the response to the first few we did since we revived the class concept, people have come from a long distance to attend, one person flew in from Minnesota, another from Oklahoma and another couple made a weekly drive from Oregon to attend our writer’s workshop!”
The March 6th will feature a discussion called Comics Econ 101 and will feature Eisner Award nominated cartoonist Ethan Nicolle as an artist in semi-residence. Nicolle is the creator of Chumble Spuzz, a graphic novel series published by SLG and is also the co-creator (along with his five year old brother) of the wildly popular Axe Cop webcomic.
Also included in the days events are a workshop lead by SLG President Dan Vado on how to put together a comic or graphic novel proposal. Vado will also review portfolios for al in attendance. “The proposal panel will, of course, be presented from the SLG perspective, but I think a lot of other publishers ask for much the same information we do so there should be a good deal of carry-over and value for people regardless of where they plan on submitting their project” added Vado
Admission to the workshop is $19.95, advance registration is recommended. More details on all of the classes offered by SLG as well as registration information for the March 6th event can be found at www.slgcomic.com/workshops
Date: Saturday March 6th
Location: SLG Publishing, 577 S. Market Street, San Jose, CA 95113
Time; 10-5 PM Cost $19.95
Call 408-971-8929 or email dvado@slgpubs.com for more information
Over three hundred attendees, volunteers, and staff attended the Phoenix Comicon Kickoff Rally Thursday night, a result that impressed even the Convention organizer, “This crowd for our Kickoff Rally is about as big as our very first Phoenix Comicon,” said Matt Solberg, Convention Director. “And the room we are in is the same size as our very first exhibitor hall!”
The Phoenix Comicon Kickoff Rally was an evening presentation and walk through of the Phoenix Convention Center, the new home for the Phoenix Comicon. “We’re talking about needing more space than we had at last year’s facility. If you took all the exhibit and programming space Read More
Following on from the hugely successful launch of the Wallace & Gromit digital comics*, Titan Publishing is proud to announce the arrival of Shaun the Sheep comic on the iPhone!
The first release is available now on iPhone for FREE! Join in with Shaun’s adventures in two classic tales: ‘Dinner Winners’ and ‘Snow Joke’. More titles will be available soon!
This is the first time that these stories have been available on the iPhone and they’re FREE to download – just go to www.titanpublishing.com/digital or check in the iTunes app store.
* The first Wallace & Gromit Comic has been downloaded over half a million times since it Read More
 Retailers and fans who missed The Last Days of American Crime #1 the first time around now have a second chance to pick up the newest critically acclaimed title from Rick Remender (Punisher, Fear Agent). Radical Publishing is pleased and proud to announce that the second printing of Remender’s newest sold-out crime masterpiece, featuring series artist Greg Tocchini (Marvel 1602: New World), will be hitting shelves again alongside the highly anticipated second issue.
The Last Days of American Crime takes place in the not-too-distant future, where the U.S. government plans in secret to broadcast a signal making it impossible for anyone to knowingly commit unlawful Read More
 Top Cow Productions, Inc. proudly announced today the March 17, 2010 release of Angelus #3, guest-starring The Darkness.
Featuring the series’ critically acclaimed duo of writer Ron Marz and artist Stjepan Sejic, the 32-page Angelus #3 addresses the long-established relationship between the Angelus and the Darkness, who have been diametrically opposed since the beginning of time. Once confronted by sometimes ally Jackie Estacado, bearer of the Darkness, in the midst of Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Danielle Baptiste, the newest bearer of the Angelus, will see if she can choose her own path.
“Dani already knows that Jackie Estacado is a good friend to have,” said Read More
Gareb Shamus announces today that he will produce New Jersey Comic Con Wizard World Convention this fall.
“Much of my family lives or has lived in the Garden State. All my hometown friends there were bugging me to do this for them and their kids.” said Shamus, CEO of New York-based Wizard Entertainment. “Launching this event is exciting because it gives our fans in New Jersey a show to call their own.”
The NJCEC is the largest and most accessible convention center in the region. This venue will ensure fans have a comfortable and modern venue experience. New Jersey Comic Con fans can expect Read More
 “Orang Utan Comics really stand out from the competition in the small press comics scene.” – Edward Kaye, Hypergeek.
Orang Utan Comics is kicking off the new decade with two exciting new releases and has some huge plans for the year to come. The first of these new releases is the action packed Alpha Gods: Betrayal #1, which picks up where last year’s popular Alpha Gods graphic novel left off. Alpha Gods: Betrayal #1 is full colour and is available via print on demand from IndyPlanet (http://www.indyplanet.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=2762) and as a digital download from DriveThru Comics (http://comics.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=64516&filters=0_0_0&manufacturers_id=2802). A promotional video for the new series is available on Read More
March will see the introduction of two new OGN’s (Original Graphic Novels) from publisher AAM/Markosia, following hot on the heels of recent successes ‘From the Pages of Bram Stoker’s Dracula: Harker’, ‘Serpent Wars’ and ‘Kong: King of Skull Island’.
‘The Dark’, written and created by Chris Lynch with art by Rick Lundeen, is a super-hero sci-fi thriller that challenges the reader’s very perceptions of reality versus fiction. It is the story of Daniel Abbot, a brilliant young scientist on the fringes of the establishment and the creator of Memetech – a technology that encodes information and memories into a liquid form, allowing anyone to literally “drink” Read More
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