testing out digital interactive comic apps

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-tale-peter-rabbit-special/id364790003?mt=8 Testing out some of the comic book apps on itunes

research on Digital interactive comics

http://blogspc.com/2010/03/25/comics-on-ipad/

 IDW iPad apps for comics

IDW Publishing apps, like the iPhone and iPod touch versions will offer customized panel-by-panel views to take advantage of the larger screen. IDW like Panelfly will have new features and presentation modes in the optimized iPad version.

IDW intends to have the new iPad-optimized versions from the IDW comics shop in addition to all of their apps available at iPad’s launch.

IDW comic titles include American McGee’s Grimm
, Astro Boy
, Bloom County
, CSI
, Dreamland Chronicles
, Danger Girl
, Family Circus
, FX
 G.I.Joe
, Ghost Whisperer: The Haunted, 
The Ghoul
, Grim Jack, 
Groom Lake, 
Igor, 
Jennifer Love Hewitt’s Music Box
, Jon Sable: Freelance 
Locke and Key
, Love & Capes
, Nanovor
 Paranormal Activities, 
Rocketeer, 
Side Chicks, 
Star Trek, 
Tank Girl
, The Dreamer and Transformers

Comics and iPad digital expansion
These iPad-optimized versions of Panelfly, IDW and ComiXology should all be available in the iTunes App Store right when first Wi-Fi iPad hits in late March. Look for a huge expansion in digital comics withiPad. We saw a similar expansion with the iPhone comic apps so I would expect even more titles and sales with the iPad apps.
Print comic fans shouldn’t dry doom and gloom for the print medium as IDW digital sales in 2009 were exponential and flowed onto their print volume expanding to the best level ever.
The power of the comic book marches on!



Comics’ by comiXology iPad app
Another iPad app ‘Comics’ by comiXology has been shown on a concept video of how their app will look running on an iPad.  Just like reading a print, only digitally enhanced. Comic iPad app looks set to take full advantage of the larger iPad screen. Panelfly and IDW were first out with published images of their iPad comic apps.
Publishers on the Comics app include Marvel Comics (US only)
, Image Comics
, Red 5, and Zenescope. New publishers
 include A Wave Blue World
, AdHouse Books
, Arcana Comics
, Asylum Press
, Bluewater Comics
, BOOM! Studios
, Com.X
, Creative Impulse, Digital Webbing
, eigoMANGA
, Evil Twin Comics
, First Salvo
, AAM/Markosia
, Moonstone
, Slave Labor Graphics (SLG)
, Top Cow
 and Third World Studios.Panelfly titles include Marvel Comics titles such as Blade, Captain America, Amazing Spider-Man, Astonishing XMen, Ironman, X23 and Age of Apocalypse.

Comic Book Research

My Artist Research for Comics

Watchmen Comic creator written by Allen Moore, Artist Dave Gibbons, Colourist John Higgins these guys are created a the best comics I ever read in my childhood the best DC comic The Watchmen series by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons can easily be argued as one of the most influential limited series in comic history. This one twelve issue series reinvented the way the public looked at the modern comic and opened a world of narrative options for future series. Published over twelve months, the series was released in 1986 and ended in 1987. Breaking ground for its serious literary consideration, Watchmen looked at an alternate United States standing on the brink of Nuclear War. Watchmen presented super-heroes as real people confronted with a mix of social, personal and ethical issues rarely depicted in comics. A classic by any standard and a pivotal series in comic history.

V for Vendetta 

Written by Alan Moore and illustrated by David Lloyd, V for Vendetta tells the tale of an anarchist bent on the destruction of a near future British government just following a limited nuclear war. The story was originally published in black and white between 1982 and 1985 for the British anthology comic Warrior though it wasn't completely told at that time due to the cancellation of the title. The series made its way to the US market just after the tremendous success of the Watchmen series under DC Comics' Vertigo imprint. V for Vendetta ran as a ten issue limited series in 1988 and quickly became a comic cult classic.

Wolverine Limited Series 

This series holds a special place for this comic fan. The limited series forever changed the way my father looked at comics and for that I am forever grateful. He read these four issues and never looked at comics as "funny books" ever again. This classic Marvel limited series was Wolverine's first solo series and saw print between toward the end of 1982. Chris Claremont penned this classic series with Frank Miller on art setting a look and tone for Wolverine that would propel this character to near legend status. An outstanding limited series containing not to be missed art and outstanding storytelling.

Green Lantern: Rebirth

Rarely do you know going into a series that it's about to reintroduce a classic character and reinvigorate a long running storyline at the exact moment when it's needed the most. Jeoff John’s reintroduction of Hal Jordan was just such a moment and you could see it coming from the first few pages of issue #1. Ethan Van Sciver's art was amazing and the series stood out from an already exceptional crowd of titles in late 2004 and early 2005. It's one of those great stories that takes a lot of loose pieces of lantern lore and blends them back together into a new, ultimately better mosaic. Green Lantern fans everywhere knew this was the right story in the right hands

Sin City: A Dame To Kill For

There was a time (and no one yet says that time is done) that Frank Miller settled into a small town called Sin City and made a home many readers enjoyed visiting. Steeped in film noir style and featuring intertwining stories cantered around Basin City, a fictional town in the located somewhere outside Seattle, Washington, Miller handed us Sin City. A Dame To Kill For is the second Sin City tale and the first to be featured outside Dark Horse Presents. Rumored as the heart of Sin City 2, we thought it was a great run to kick off our series galleries.

Night crawler Series Gallery

Kurt Wagner aka Night crawler is a long-time member of the X-Men. That said, he actually started life as a character targeted for DC's Legion of Super-Heroes. Created by Len Wein and Dave Cockrum and first appearing in the now legendary Giant-Size X-Men #1 back in May, 1975, Night crawler was a German mutant possessing the ability to teleport. Over the years Night crawler has proven himself both a swashbuckler and solid cornerstone of the Marvel mutant community. Cursed with the look of a demon, Night crawler harbours a core of nobility and compassion at times unequalled in comics.

Marvel Comics Jungle Action
Black Panther featured from #5

The series covered in this gallery is actually the second Jungle Action series. The first was produced under Atlas Comics in 1954. The series we're covering kicked off the Black Panther with issue #5 and saw its start in October 1972. The series served as the Black Panther's first starring series and was written by Don McGregor with art by Rich Buckler, Gil Kane and Billy Graham. This series pioneered the self-contained, multi-issue story arc concept. Comics legend Jack Kirby would next take up the Black Panther with a self titled series in 1977.