Tag: comic books

It’s a question every comic book publisher is thinking: Will digital save the day? On paper, literally and figuratively, the American comic book’s past looks brighter than its future. The question now is whether the medium’s classic approach to sequential storytelling with static images can leap off the page and become a pixel proposition in a major way. DC Entertainment is counting on it, and its executives say the launch Tuesday of a new storefront on Amazon.com is a milestone moment on the path to that downloadable future. Digital versions of 100 graphic novels and collections such as “Watchmen,” “Batman: Year One” and Neil Gaiman’s “Sandman” stories are now available exclusively via Amazon for its first color e-reader, the Kindle Fire, which arrived in November. The deal and the ramp-up to the storefront has stirred curiosity, controversy and competition. When word spread that Amazon’s ...