Comixology announced a special Submit Bundle Special at SXSW yesterday. Included in the special deal - 100 independent comics for just 10 bucks! - is The Sire #1, created by Michael Dolce, drawn by Dan Leister and featuring a cover by Talent Caldwell. The bundle will only be available from now until Monday March 10, [...]
How brand licensing helped cultivate the popularity of online casino games The power of brand licensing can’t be stated enough. There’s just something about having our beloved characters, franchises, and pop culture icons plastered onto things that compels many of us to try them out, if only to see how well our favorites have been [...]
Hey folks, welcome back to Secrets of the Sire! Got a lot of great feedback from the topic of print vs digital, what comic book stores must do to survive and finally comic books stores: should they serve alcohol. For the final note on this debate, I'd like to give a shot out to @LyriaExchange for [...]
Featuring a stunning cover by Talent Caldwell! - The Sire #4 will be available for download NOW on comiXology! Click on this URL to check it out or to help promote the book via social media: http://cmxl.gy/1bPodC1
Got some great responses to our latest blogs! Here are just a few snippets from social media on the topic of print vs. digital and what retailers must do to survive: Stacy Korn from Comic Fusion - another fantastic store in New Jersey had this to say on some of the suggestion posted: To serve [...]
Originally working as one cohesive online issue of The Sire, this was meant to be a nice bridge between Sire Vol 1 and Sire: Revelations detailing how Freak landed in Paris and detailing the connection between Zeus Wyndell and Samuel Antonetti. In the spirit of getting all these files back up on the site, I've [...]
So in keeping with the theme of the print vs digital debate that was started three weeks earlier, the number one faction that gets affected by this new technology is not the reader nor the publishing companies. In fact, as specified, in a lot of ways digital is to the benefit of both, ie: storage [...]
Due to popular demand i'll be blogging on Mikebooks.com twice a week! We've already had tremendous responses to previous posts and generated a ton of great feedback and interaction. So why stop there? Starting this week here is the new post schedule for Mikebooks.com: Monday & Friday: New blog post. I'll alternate between tackling topics [...]
Check out creator Michael Dolce sharing tables with James Mascia at Awesome Con in Washington DC April 18th-20. Table, signing and sketching info TBD
Got a lot of great responses to last week's blog. So here's a follow-up question tackling even more concerns with print vs digital comics. Do people even collect modern comics anymore? And more importantly, storage: what the heck to do with all those hard copies? Andrew Lovuolo from Graphic Illusions Studios (and also the fine [...]
