April 8, 2013
If you like getting cool items for free, and you also like comic books, we've just found the perfect deal for you. ComiXology is bringing back its popular deal, and is giving away 700 free issues of Marvel comics for free. Of course, these are digital issues of the comics, so collectors will not be able to take advantage of this deal to bolster their collection, but getting to read a ton of digital comics is still nothing to complain about.
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March 18, 2013
Having been brought up on western comic books, it's refreshing to be introduced to a wholly different comic book culture. Those of you that have already had the pleasure to make acquaintance with manga (Japanese comics) will agree on the certifiable wealth of stories contained in this comic book branch. And what better companion than your trusty iPad to journey through the manga landscape?
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March 1, 2013
I am presuming here that you the reader are now an adult or at least in your late teens who is probably reading at least a Dan Brown or the latest bestseller on political philosophy. But has the love for a Tintin or the caped crusaders gone away? Nostalgia has a strange way of popping its head. Not only that – the love for comics turns many of us into serious collectors in adulthood when we have the cents and dollars to put into it.
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December 10, 2012
Some days just don’t start right. Do you ever have days when you wake up in the morning and things just feel off? Your work seems meaningless, your life seems boring, you feel too fat/thin/tall/short, you don’t have time to do the things you really like, and things just suck in general. If you’ve never had one of these days, I’m sure we’re all jealous, but when this happens to me, I try to find small things to cheer me up.
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December 6, 2012
Webcomics are arguably more popular now than they ever have been before. This is mainly due to a marked increase in the quality of content, with some webcomics being both magnificently written and magnificently drawn. So much so that they rival any of the more established and mainstream comic strips that make it into newspapers and magazines. Who needs print when digital provides all the comic nourishment you'll ever need?
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November 9, 2012
Comic book fans can rejoice. In one complete swoop, DC Comics announced its arrival on the three major digital platforms. DC Comics is the Number 1 comic book publisher in the U.S. and boasts of comic book heroes and titles like Justice League, Batman, Superman, Detective Comics, Action Comics, Batgirl, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Fables and American Vampire.
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October 22, 2012
YouTube is full of such tutorials for anything from a smiley face to complex characters, but many of them are hard to follow or just plain bad. How can you know which channels to focus on if you want to learn to draw, or hone your drawing skills? That’s what MakeUseOf here for! Below you’ll find a list of the top YouTube channels, arranged by drawing level from simple to more advanced, that will help you learn how to draw.
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October 9, 2012
Reddit is the best place for trivia about any topic, and comic books are no different! Right on Reddit are several communities devoted to nearly all of your favorite comic book superheroes. Best of all, these communities are mostly active, and that means there are people lurking about who love talking about your favorite comic book characters just as much as you do. Below, we have nine subreddits devoted to these costumed heroes, and hopefully, you'll find something that you like.
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August 22, 2012
Marvel Comics was founded in 1939 as Timely Comics before becoming Atlas Comics in the 1950s and eventually the company we know and love in the 1960s. This was the era when Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and the omnipresent Stan Lee created the characters that have grown far beyond their humble beginnings as mere ink drawings. Marvel Comics is now part of the larger Marvel Entertainment, which in turn is part of The Walt Disney Company.
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August 7, 2012
You too must have enjoyed a comic or two. You too must have dreamt up comic book characters of your own. If Stan Lee could create an entire universe of super-humans, our childhood imaginations could too. Maybe then we only had our foggy flights of fancy. Now, we have a legion of comic book tools. So let’s see how you can create your own web comics with free tools, and also its more digitalized cousin – the Internet meme.
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July 12, 2012
Summertime is pretty much the perfect time to indulge in reading your favorite genre or category of books. One popular these days is comic books, which make perfect sense to enjoy during your free days this summer. So this article is for tablet-owning users: recommendations to highly rated comic viewers, which you can use to read the great comics.
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June 15, 2012
Amazon has rolled out an update for its applications on iOS, Android and Kindle Cloud Reader that helps them better support books that are heavy on images. This will greatly improve the reading experience for anyone using Kindle Apps to read children's books, graphic novels and comics.
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June 11, 2012
Here are some prototypes that are cool examples of what HTML5 can do to make our comic strip experience a lot more engaging. This article showcases some of these early efforts. While HTML5 may or may not be a Flash-killer, the telltale signs (and Apple) say that HTML5 could definitely be a productivity killer!
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May 21, 2012
Comics are an often under-appreciated form of fiction. Some of the graphic novels I've read rank right up there with my favorite fantasy books. But this article is not meant to recruit new comic book lovers. Rather it's to cater to my fellow enthusiasts. For books, I've got my trusted Sony eReader. Alas, this device doesn't carry itself as well with comics. That's where the tablet comes in.
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May 1, 2012
As a kid, I burned through a lot of hobbies and phases. There was the NES, pogs, trading cards, and I was huge on comic books. I still have them all, stored away in plastic cases and as (probably) worthless as ever. Nonetheless, these are pieces of nostalgia that I don't want to let go. Knowing that a lot of my favorite comic books exist online forever would make letting go a lot easier, though.
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