Assembled, Zipped, Transferred, and Downloaded: News From Digital



By Tom Spurgeon

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* Oni Press has announced a transition from its current marketing-oriented site to a content-driven one, with fairly detailed plans as to what gets released and when.

* I don't have any feel yet for whether or not books moving into digital are a big deal or not. I'm guessing that except for the biggest hits this isn't the deal one would hope for moves like that, but that's only a guess. At any rate, Human Diastrophism by Gilbert Hernandez is one of those works that when collected presaged the last ten years of comics output more than it settled easily into the time it was released. All hail Los Bros.

* speaking of cartoonists known primarily for print who have major work now available digitally, don't forget The Certified Hunt Emerson for iPad. Emerson is one of the most fun of all the comics-makers.

* this was the 100,000,000th download at comiXology.

* in case it wasn't obvious, this column is this site's attempt to better cover various digital comics initiatives as their own publishing area. I understand that some will see difficulties in covering those books that way. Please bear with me. In fact, please bear with me more generally: there will be a vast learning curve on display as I get up to speed with what's going on in that world. The idea isn't so much to make a grand declaration as to what such comics are and aren't as it is to get this site in the better habit of covering comics like these more thoroughly and effectively. The way I was doing it wasn't getting the job done; hopefully this will work better. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

* Grubby Little Smudges Of Filth is SLG's latest, multiple-platform, digital release.

* Emanata is billing itself as the first indie-comics platform for the iPad; I have no idea how accurate a claim that is given how much classic indie-comics work is out there, but I hear what they're saying.

* this isn't actually news in any sense of the word, but Whit Taylor is one of those cartoonists that occasionally sends e-mail asking me to look at their comics, so I thought maybe you'd like to be included in that offer.

* finally, here's some good news: Meredith Gran announced that Octopus Pie will be returning to regular updates starting Monday, November 26. I read a bunch of that comic recently and enjoyed it.

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our thanks to Mark Hansel for the title of the column, and for allowing us to purchase it at such a ridiculously low price. our hope is that it will be accepted in the tongue-in-cheek spirit that the "Bundled" title is taken; we know that all digital comics aren't readied this way, just as vary few print comics are tossed from the back of a truck

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