Mobile Comics Success Grows

Mobile comics seem to be growing in popularity worldwide, bouyed by better screen resolutions and the growing number of comic creators experimenting with the form. Further growth in the market might come from the increasing sales success for mobile comics (ketai) in Japan, a country which has already successfully exported manga print comics worldwide.

Highway Robbery Comic

ROK Comics creator David Hailwood (Drink Like A Fish, Ups and Downs and more) and artist Tony Suleri Cosmogenesis) have a a new webcomic online via British comic site Bulletproof Comics (www.bulletproofcomics.co.uk).

ROK Comics supports Charity Comic

ROK Comics is backing Floods, a new charity comic created to raise funds for the Red Cross and available now from lulu.com. Initiated by Adam R. Grose, publisher of Clown Press, a wide selection of writers and artists have come together to create this book.
Creators include Ben Womack, Simon Spurrier, Simon Mackie, David Hailwood, Tom [...]

Temple of Comics

On the weekend of Free Comics Day, we’re pleased to report Issue #0 of The Temple Comic APA’s Digital Showcase is now available to download as a free PDF at templeapa.ning.com, featuring a motley collection of strips from some great indie talent.

Introducing Charlotte Corday of the Surete

ROK Comics is delighted to announce the addition of a new adventure strip, Charlotte Corday of the Surete, drawn by top British comics artist Keith Page.
Keith’s current work includes Ramsey’s Raiders for DC Thomson’s Commando and other stories, and a “prequel” of the original Dan Dare for Rod Barzilay’s magazine Spaceship Away.
He decided [...]

Breaking Into Comics Event

Just a quick reminder that downthetubes and ROK Comics Managing Editor John Freeman is one of the guests at a Breaking Into Comics event in Leicester this Saturday, along with 2000AD editor Matt Smith and indie publisher Jay Eales.
“Breaking in to Comics and Graphic Novels” runs from 2 – [...]

Mike Colbert interviewed

ROK Comics creator Mike Colbert has just been interviewed by Comic Brew, revealing his new plans for Crazy Mary and other projects.
Talking about why he writes comics, Mike says it all comes down to “a pathological need to get this stuff out of my head!”
“Seriously,” he continues, “There’s a rush that you feel when you [...]

Crazy Mary hits US stores

Digital Webbing Presents has released Trinity, the first print collection of Crazy Mary short stories, in the United States, stories which are also available worldwide for mobile users via ROK Comics thanks to the enthusiastic support of the character’s creator, Mike Colbert.
Trinity collect the first three shorts that have appeared over the last few [...]

$10,000 Mobile Comic Winner Announced

ROK Comics is pleased to announce the winner of its first $10,000 humour competition is cartoonist Steve English, for an episode of his ongoing series “Madd Science“.
Runners up in the competition, which ran on ROK Comics this summer and attracted hundreds of entries, were David Hailwood and Toshiro de Smeyter for and episode of their [...]