ROK Comics Goes Free to View

ROK Comics is pleased to announce many of the comics published on the service are now Free To View on the web in an ad-supported format.

Shatner on Your Mobile

Thanks to a deal between ROK Media (publishers of ROK Comics) and top Hollywood photographer Sue Schneider, you can now buy wallpapers featuring some top SF TV and film stars — along with other celebrities — for your mobile.
Mobile service Fonepark is offering a number of ‘wallpapers’ for mobile featuring the likes of William Shatner, [...]

Dreadman Goodies On Sale

Chillin With Dreadman Fans can now buy merchandise from the Chillin With Dreadman Headshop on CafePress.

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.

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 – [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

$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 [...]