Aspen teams with iVerse for digital distribution

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Aspen Comics sent over a press release earlier today detailing their plans to offer their comics digitally through iVerse‘s Comics+ application. They also plan to participate in the Diamond Digital retailer initiative that iVerse and Diamond Comics Distributors are set to launch later this summer.

Titles now available on the Comics+ app for the various iOS devices include Fathom, Executive Assistant: Iris, Soulfire and Shrugged. comiXology announced last month that they would be carrying Aspen titles as well.

You can find the complete press release on the iVerse announcement after the jump.

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ASPEN COMICS EXPANDS ITS DIGITAL PRESENCE TEAMING UP WITH IVERSE MEDIA
Popular Independent Publisher Brings Classic and New Titles to One of the Most Successful Digital Platforms

Waco, TX/Los Angeles, CA – 6/21/11 – iVerse Media is happy to announce they are expanding their digital presence by adding Aspen Comics to the already impressive list of publishers currently listed in the Comics+ app. Aspen will also be participating in the Diamond Digital retailer initiative with iVerse and Diamond Distribution, to be launched later this summer.

“Aspen is extremely pleased to be partnering up with iVerse Media to bring our growing library of titles to their awesome platform, “said Aspen Editor-In-Chief Vince Hernandez. “We look forward to providing brand new as well as popular existing Aspen content for their customers, who can expect the same level of quality we’re known for on all our future digital releases with iVerse.”

iVerse Media CEO, Michael Murphey, said “We couldn’t be more excited to have Aspen on board. These are some of the highest quality books on the market today – and they just pop digitally. They’re beautiful books, and an essential addition to our digital comics offerings.”

The initial list of books to be released today in the Comics+ app include:
Executive Assistant: Iris Preview FREE
Executive Assistant: Iris #0 FREE
Executive Assistant: Iris #1 $1.99
Executive Assistant: Iris #2 $1.99

Fathom Vol.1 #0 FREE
Fathom Vol.1 #1 $1.99
Fathom Vol.1 #2 $1.99

Shrugged Preview FREE
Shrugged #0 FREE
Shrugged #1 $1.99
Shrugged #2 $1.99

Titles are available now in the Comics + Application for iOS. For more information visit: http://comicspl.us

About Aspen Comics

Aspen MLT, Inc. is an entertainment publishing company founded in January 2003 by superstar comic artist Michael Turner. Aspen produces the popular series Fathom, the hit fantasy series Soulfire, the smash hit Lady Mechanika, the acclaimed series Shrugged, as well as new series such as Broken Pieces, Charismagic, Dellec, Executive Assistant: Iris, Mindfield, and The Scourge in association with Valhalla Motion Pictures. As well as publishing their own line of books, Aspen MLT Inc. continually collaborates on the comic industry’s most exciting titles including Marvel’s Civil War and World War Hulk, and DC Comics’ Identity Crisis and Brightest Day events. Aspen has branched into other media forms and continues to do so. Aspen has produced original content and designs for such clients as Marvel Comics, DC Comics, NBC, American Express and more.

About iVerse Media

iVerse Media is a digital content distributor focused on the world of comics and popular culture. Founded in 2008, the company was one of the first to launch digital comics on Apple’s iOS platform. As of June 2011 almost 5 Million products in the iOS App Store have been downloaded that are powered by iVerse, making the “iVerse Engine” one of the most popular and widely used platforms for reading digital comics. The company is principally located in Waco, TX.

June 21, 2011 @ 10:00 PM by JK ParkinTagged: Aspen Comics, Diamond Digital, digital comics, iverse Leave a CommentYour Name: *

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SLG offers digital Sanctuary for free

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SLG describes Stephen Coughlin’s series Sanctuary as part Lost, part Island of Dr. Moreau and part Jungle Book. The Jungle Book influence is easy to get from all the talking animals, but the other two aren’t as immediately apparent. At first Sanctuary reads more like Madagascar, a simple story about a bunch of funny animals hanging out at the zoo.

But things get strange quickly when Coughlin reveals that there are no visitors to this zoo and that the humans running the place may not be helping the animals. And then the first death occurs.

Sanctuary #1 can be downloaded for free from the SLG store.

May 27, 2011 @ 01:00 PM by Michael MayTagged: digital comics, SLG Publishing, Stephen Coughlin, The Sanctuary 3 CommentsLeaskMay 27, 2011 at 1:14 pm

The SLG store is currently listing it as “Out of Stock” and thus unavailable to order, which seems odd considering it’s a digital comic and not something that can actually be out of stock. Is anybody else having this problem?

Michael MayMay 27, 2011 at 1:17 pm

When you click the link in the post it should take you directly to the download page. It works for me and I was able to download the PDF version that way. (There are two other downloadable options in addition to PDF.)

LeaskMay 27, 2011 at 2:58 pm

Thanks! I see where I was missing the links on the page I was at.

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Wowio relaunches Spacedog as digital graphic novel imprint

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Wowio was a pioneer in digital comics back in the olden days, when they offered free, ad-supported digital comics. The company has been through a lot of changes since then, and the comics aren’t free any more, although they do offer a free download every month (usually a pretty good one) to readers who “like” them on Facebook. And unlike other digital distributors, they offer books in PDF and ePub format, so they are portable and can be moved from one device to another. (In other words, you can actually own these digital comics.)

Spacedog Entertainment developed comics and graphic novels that were then published by other publishers and shopped around for film development. Their properties include The Covenant and Proximity Effect (published by Top Cow), The Gift (Image), and Helen Killer (Arcana).

Now Wowio has acquired Spacedog and is relaunching it as a graphic novel imprint, starting with four previously published titles: Helen Killer, Fiction Clemens, Death Comes to Dillinger, and M.I.T.H. The comics are priced at 99 cents each, and the plan is to publish an issue a week, starting in April, and to expand the line to include other Spacedog properties, including those mentioned above.

Of course, comics can’t just be comics any more, so part of the plan is to expand these properties into other media:

As part of its strategy to provide original digital entertainment, WOWIO will also produce exclusive new material based on the Spacedog Entertainment library for distribution across its family of sites, including eBook outlet WOWIO, social comics community DrunkDuck and pop culture video destination PopGalaxy. Original offerings will include bonus content, and the development of new formats incorporating video, prose and other blended media elements.

“The Spacedog library provides us with exciting new material to develop into digital and traditional entertainment properties,” said Linda Engelsiepen, WOWIO’s VP of Content Development. “This is the first step of many that will help us further generate audience awareness around Spacedog’s titles and build a strong platform to grow them into franchises.”

That’s a lot of words, but the concept is still pretty vague, and Wowio’s track record is mixed at best. On the other hand, they are offering 99-cent, platform-independent, almost DRM-free digital downloads, so if they just stick to comics, they might be on to something there.

March 25, 2011 @ 12:00 PM by Brigid AlversonTagged: arcana, digital comics, image, Spacedog, Top Cow, Wowio One CommentMichael MayMarch 25, 2011 at 1:14 pm

I was just thinking about Death Comes to Dillinger the other day. That was a mighty fine comic.

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Now that I have an iPad, I have been paying more attention to digital comics releases, particularly to comiXology’s weekly e-mail blast. I sampled some of their recent offerings and found them to be a mixed bag—three very good single issues and a graphic novel that was kind of mediocre. The lower price made digital a good deal for all of these, and with comiXology’s web app, they are available to anyone with a browser and a few dollars.

The Royal Historian of Oz #1 Andy Hirsch’s expressive art really lights up this story of an L. Frank Baum wannabe who makes it to the real Land of Oz—and steals a bunch of their stuff. His hapless son, who has barely been keeping things together, is less than thrilled to learn that his house is now home to an assortment of (mostly living) Oz artifacts, and the ruler of Oz isn’t happy with the situation either. Writer Tommy Kovac makes the characters grounded and convincing despite the fantastic circumstances, and Hirsch does a great job of bringing Baum’s lesser-known creations to life, filling the panels with quirky details. It’s in glorious black and white, with a bit of an underground comics vibe, and at 99 cents (a penny less than the print edition!), it’s a solid bargain.

Atomic Robo: The Deadly Art of Science #1 Set in 1930, this is the first issue of a new story arc, and it starts out with a masked vigilante chasing a pair of gangsters while his daughter follows the action via video cameras and wiretaps. When the action shifts to New York, Atomic Robo gets mixed up in it and tags along after the vigilante, looking for the sort of adventures he has only read about in the pulps. The art is clean, the writing is funny, and the characters snap into place right away. Well worth the 99 cents.

The book is only so-so, but I love Darwyn Cooke's cover

Mirror, Mirror This graphic novel is your basic search-for-the-prize thriller with a fairy tale twist: Everyone is running after pieces of the mirror from Snow White, which has great, if somewhat vaguely defined, power. To prevent the mirror from being misused, Snow White smashed it and sent the pieces all over the world, and a secret society called The Huntsmen has been tasked with keeping them separate. Now the slacker son of two murdered archaeologists is racing to keep the last few shards away from the evil prince Mason, a descendant of Snow White’s evil stepmother. It’s a decent, if somewhat light, thriller; the problem is that the creators focus so tightly on the plot that everything seems pre-ordained—given the vaguest of directions (“Greece”), the main characters, Owen and Sally, arrive somewhere and immediately find what they are looking for, and Owen always makes the right guess to find the next clue. It’s all too neat, and the novel seems more like a series of capers than a coherent story, although some of this comes from a fairly complicated plot being compressed into an 85-page graphic novel. None of the ideas are exactly original—both the fairy-tales-are-real thing and the lost-relic thing have been done multiple times—and Lee Moder’s art follows the standard tropes—you can immediately tell what each character’s role will be, good or evil, by looking at them. So no new ground is broken here, but the book does provide a solid hour or so of fast-paced entertainment, and at $4.99, the digital version is a better deal than the print edition, which retails for $14.99. (Free preview here.)

Saga of the Swamp Thing #21 This was a bit of serendipity. I wasn’t reading comics in 1983, when Alan Moore took over this series and wrote a new origin story for the Swamp Thing, so I never would have found it if it hadn’t popped up on comiXology. It’s a throwback to the old EC horror stories, starting with an atmospheric scene (rain dripping on windows) and the revelation that the narrator has done something vague but terrible to another character. From there the story flashes back to the conflict between the two and the creation story of the Swamp Thing. It’s great stuff, imaginative and well executed. This is a good example of one of the strengths of digital—it’s nice to read this in pristine form onscreen (rather than on yellowing paper) and even nicer to be able to buy a copy within seconds of finding out it exists. Cheap at twice the price, and a real bargain at 99 cents.

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