Happy Holidays!

A quick line to offer all our readers plenty of seasonal cheer and wish you all the very best of the season and a Happy New Year. Thank you all for your tremendous support for the ROK Comics on mobile project in our first few months of operation for what has, for us, been very [...]

I’m a Comic Celebrity!

ROK Comics has teamed up with UK TV company ITV to enable I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here fans to create comics based on the stuck-in-a-jungle reality entertainment show, which has just begun its seventh season.
The first of its kind for a broadcaster, this truly interactive services is a simple point and click [...]

2000AD artist Ian Gibson joins ROK Comics

ROK Comics is delighted to announce the addition of Ian Gibson’s comic strip Annie Droid to its comics-to-mobile service.
Working in partnership with Ian, ROK Comics will bringing mobile users worldwide this funny strip written and drawn by Ian Gibson, which was first published in Britain’s The Saturday Times.
Annie Droid is just one of many characters [...]

Mobile Combat game launched on ROK Comics

ROK Comics creator David Hailwood has come up with a novel way of using our comics-to-mobile format to create Mobile Combat, a new card game — except the cards are electronic and delivered straight to your mobile.
The first game has been released on time for Hallowe’en.
“Think ‘Tim Burton does Top Trumps,” David who has [...]

$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 [...]

ROK Comics Humour Competition Update

30 humour strips published on ROK Comics eligible for entry into the ROK Comics $10,000 Humour Competition 2007 have now been shortlisted by the ROK Comics team for consideration by the competition’s external judge.
“It was a long but enjoyable haul!” says ROK Comics Managing Editor John Freeman. “We had a huge number of huour [...]

ROK Comics supports Birmingham Comics Show

Comics to mobile publisher Rok Comics is pleased to announce its support for the 2007 Birmingham International Comics Show (www.thecomicsshow.co.uk) which takes place 13-14 October 2007, with a competition to win a top of the range Nokia mobile phone, an annual subscription to all of ROK Comics content via its WAP subscriber service and other [...]

Times feature on mobile comics

Today’s Times newspaper carries a full feature on mobile comics, and highlights ROK Comics‘ operation.
“The comic book, a staple of British childhood for 90 years, is to receive a 21st-century makeover as the adventures of characters such as Dennis the Menace and Desperate Dan are sent frame-by-frame to children’s mobile phones,” it begins, drawing [...]

Sporting Swine joins ROK Comics!

The Sporting Swine by Barney Farmer and Lee Healey, which first appeared in top men’s magazine Maxim, is the latest professional strip to join the many others on ROK Comics from some of the UK’s top comic creators.
The Sporting Swine has appeared in Maxim since around June 2005, initially in the UK only, then various [...]

John Freeman interviewed on Nightgig

31st July 2007: Comics to mobile project Rok Comics’ Managing Editor John Freeman will feature in an upcoming ‘Nightgig’ podcast, talking about the company’s $10,000 Humour Comic competition which runs until end August 2007 — and the opportunities ROK Comics offers publishers and individual creators alike to create and sell strips for mobile phones.
The Gigcast [...]