Digital comics are comics released digitally, as opposed to in print. Digital comics commonly take the form of mobile comics. Webcomics may also fall under the "digital comics" umbrella.
Takahiro Sakuishi, better known by his pen name Harold Sakuishi, is a Japanese manga artist. Sakuishi has a wide variety of interests which include baseball, martial arts, MMA, and music. Each of these has become the basis for his most popular series. His series also often include character cameos from his past works; one of the newspaper reporters in Beck is actually from Stopper Busujima and so on. Additionally, he's a big fan of Sangokushi with an altered version of that story appearing in Beck written by "Christy Sakuishi". In Beck he included many famous people in background crowds. These included many popular musicians, characters from Happy Sangokushi and MMA legends Royce Gracie and Kazushi Sakuraba.
Archaia Entertainment, LLC, commonly known as Archaia, is an imprint of American comic book and graphic novel publisher Boom! Studios.
Marvel Unlimited, formerly known as Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited, is an online service by Marvel Comics that distributes past issues of their comics via the internet. The service launched on November 13, 2007, and now has more than 27,000 issues in its archive.
Fist of Justice is a superhero comic book published by Digital Webbing. The series and its title character debuted in Digital Webbing Presents #24, and was created by Mike Imboden and Ed Dukeshire.
Iconology Inc., d/b/a ComiXology, is a cloud-based digital distribution platform for comics, with over 200 million comic downloads as of September 2013. It offers a selection of more than 100,000 comic books, graphic novels, and manga across Android, iOS, Kindle Fire, Windows 10, and the Internet. In April 2014, ComiXology became a subsidiary of Amazon.com.
Ken Goldstein, also known as Kene G and Jack Dempsey, is an American musician, film and television writer, producer, director and occasional actor. He is a co-founder of Planet illogica and CEO of The Six Shooter Company and the author of the book series, The Way of the Nerd. Goldstein is an active speaker at conferences and festivals, universities and private and public institutions. He has been a featured and Keynote speaker in Brazil, Australia, France and Germany. He is also a songwriter, guitar player, performer and recording artist who often performs under the stage name Jack Dempsey. In 2014 Ken Goldstein completed his first solo album as Jack Dempsey at Capitol Records. The album was produced and engineered by Niko Bolas.
"Zero Gravity" is a single by the Estonian recording artist Kerli. Produced by Jakob Hazell and Svante Halldin, it was officially released on March 20, 2012 by The Island Def Jam Music Group on digital media stores. The song draws heavy inspiration from space tourism, air, and more prominently, sylphs, as reflected in the music video which premiered on March 22. The song is about "merging with the spirit, becoming all love."
Action Lab Entertainment, is an American publisher of comic books, known primarily for the publication of the all-ages fantasy title Princeless, as well as a wide range of titles from all genres. The company is also known for embracing digital comics and is recognized as one of the first publishers to release a digital-only Free Comic Book Day title.
Jan Lucanus is an American comic book writer, filmmaker, martial artist, musical artist, and entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of the transmedia company Creative Impulse Entertainment, Inc., co-creator/co-writer of the mixed martial arts comic books series, JFH: Justice For Hire, is a filmmaker, an international martial arts champion in both the full contact sport of San Shou and the sport of Tai Chi Push Hands, and is a rapper/singer/songwriter. Lucanus also consults on business, production, and creative strategies for companies and individuals across comics, film, television, music, and games. He is a graduate of the New York University Maurice Kanbar Institute for Film & Television, Tisch School of the Arts, holding a degree in Film Production.
BUBBLE Comics is the largest Russian comic book publisher, founded in 2011. It is the only publishing house in Russia that produces original non-franchised comic books. Its early slate consisted of four titles: Demonslayer, Major Grom, Friar, and Red Fury. These were later joined by Exlibrium and Meteora. The original four titles concluded their run in December 2016 at fifty issues each. In January 2017, four brand-new ongoing series were launched in their place: Allies, Demonslayer vol. 2, Igor Grom, and Realmwalkers.
JFH: Justice For Hire is a mixed martial arts themed entertainment property that encompasses a series of comic books, films, videos, music, and animations. The JFH story follows two sons of a duo of vigilante fathers that get their family's hero-for-hire business legalized, spawning a worldwide industry of heroes, villains, and mercenaries for hire dubbed the Retribution Industry. Produced and published by Creative Impulse Entertainment, JFH remains one of the first examples of transmedia storytelling in the comic book industry.
Creature Academy is an all-ages/science fiction/fantasy digital comic series created by Kevin Hanna, that ran for four issues and was published in a collected edition for the first time in 2013.
Jan C. Childress is an American comic book writer, martial artist, financial professional, and former Congressional speechwriter. As a comic book professional, he is best known for writing The Good Guys (comics) with his mentor, Jim Shooter for Defiant Comics and co-creating the mixed martial arts entertainment property JFH: Justice For Hire with his son Jan Lucanus for Creative Impulse Entertainment. As a martial artist, he is world-ranked with several national medals and titles from the International Chinese Martial Arts Competition (ICMAC), as well as twice winning the bronze medal at the Tai Chi World Cup in Taiwan. Mr. Childress also served as the Vice-President of Investor Relations at KeySpan Corporation, and is currently the Director of Investor Relations for Consolidated Edison.
Aurore Barry is an American screenwriter, film & music video director, and fashion entrepreneur. A graduate of Loyola Marymount University's film school, Aurore first gained recognition for her Senior thesis film Adventures in the Mind of Jack Quimby, which was an official selection of the Palm Springs Shortfest. In 2007, she cofounded the clothing line Daughters of the Revolution with designer Emily Cadenhead. Aurore won the 2008 Duke City Shootout competition for her screenplay Mantrap, which was produced by the program with her directing, subsequently garnering a second award for production design. She has written and directed music videos for several artists, including Ember FX, Ultra Vanity Testosterone, and Jan Lucanus. At the 2013 San Diego Comic Con Superhero Kung Fu Extravaganza, it was announced that Aurore would co-write and co-direct an upcoming film production based on the acclaimed mixed martial arts comic book series JFH: Justice For Hire.
Red Giant Entertainment, Inc. is a Florida-headquartered comic book publisher and "transmedia" entertainment company first established in 2010. As a transmedia company, Red Giant develops intellectual properties into various ancillary media forms including: movies, television, video games, phone apps, online comics, toy lines, cartoons, T-shirts, and other merchandising opportunities. Red Giant was founded Benny R. Powell, who also served as the head marketing writer for Priceline.com in the company's early days. David Campiti, director and COO, also is CEO of Glass House Graphics. Isen Robbins (CIPO) and Aimee Schoof (CBDO) are both from Intrinsic Value Films and Red Giant Media. Chris Crosby is CTO and the CEO of Keenspot Entertainment. Internet personality Mark "Markiplier" Fischbach joined the board in November 2014.
Erica Schultz is an American comic book writer, letterer, and editor. She is best known for writing the 2018 Daredevil Annual for comic book publisher Marvel, her urban fantasy series Forgotten Home with ComiXology Originals, participation in DC Comics' first Writers Workshop, and her creator-owned crime series, M3.
DC Comics Bombshells refers to a line of figurines released by DC Collectibles depicting DC Comics superheroines in a retro 1940s look based on designs by Ant Lucia. The line has further expanded to encompass variant covers of DC Comics and licensed memorabilia such as art prints, T-shirts, mugs and their own ongoing comic book.
Con Chrisoulis is a multidisciplinary artist and academic, most famous for his graphic novels, Tales of The Smiths, Dryland, Giant-Size Fascists, and Rebel Rebel.
Batman: The Adventures Continue is a DC Comics comic book series starring Batman set in the world of the DC Animated Universe. It is a continuation of Batman: The Animated Series and its follow-up The New Batman Adventures. The book is co-written by Paul Dini and Alan Burnett, producers of the original animated television series, and illustrated by Ty Templeton, who also worked on previous comics inspired by Batman: TAS. The limited series was initially released as a "digital first" comic, beginning in April 2020. The first print issue, which collects the first two digital chapters, reached stores on June 10, 2020. The miniseries was extended from six to seven print issues, and later to eight. In March 2021, DC announced Season II of the series, with Issue 1 published in June 2021. As of June 2021, DC has planned seven issues for Season II.
