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Beta testers wanted

Next update to CBL should have metadata deployed. Please help speed this up! http://comics.ning.com/forum/topics/wanted-beta-testers Continue

Added by Simon on October 21, 2009 at 5:15am — No Comments

limited Edition Podcast #24 - Win a copy of Arkham Asylum!

Were back! To celebrate our new rss & itunes feed we launch a competition to win Batman Arkham Asylum the game. Download the podcast now to grab a chance to win a copy! John and Stephen talk about Stan Lee on twitter you should too! Stephen 'thrifty' Reid slowly goes digital although he still hasn't figured out how to get them on his iphone and… Continue

Added by Shuttler on September 9, 2009 at 2:41pm — No Comments

Limited Edition Podcast #23 - Comics & Games

We are back with another new show and a new format! Be sure to update your RSS Feed & iTunes subscriptions with the new feed details. Stephen joins John for a comics natter covering Adventure Comics, Spider Woman the Animated Comics & Wonder Woman the animated movie. Matt & John sit down and have a games chat. They talk about Tabula Rasa, Halo ODST, Arkham Asylum, Magic the Gathering & of cour… Continue

Added by Shuttler on September 6, 2009 at 9:31pm — No Comments

Tweeting ComicBookLover

To improve communication with users, ComicBookLover is now tweeting... http://www.twitter.com/comicbooklover As an aside, does anybody know how to stop the Ning blog/forum spammers? A bit annoying to keep finding dozens of ads for a tour of Northern India. Continue

Added by Simon on August 31, 2009 at 5:49pm — No Comments

Digital Comics - The Future Is Now

It's clear from Comic-Con that more and more people are getting on board the digital comics wagon. Welcome! For a while it felt like ComicBookLover was a lone voice - not anymore. This is a good thing and will spur innovation in the space. http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=22271 Continue

Added by Simon on August 1, 2009 at 6:30am — No Comments

RADICAL COMICS

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Added by Radical Comics on April 14, 2009 at 9:29am — No Comments

Limited Edition Podcast 14 - Watchmen

Get it here This episode of Limited Edition is all about Watchmen. We met up with members of the Virgin Worlds collective, listeners, gamers a… Continue

Added by Shuttler on March 17, 2009 at 1:21pm — No Comments

ComicBookLover Technical stuff

My curent purpose is relative to files management into big CBL databases. I've recently installed a new RAID set with new harddrives, and I had to move all my CBL library. I was limited by implementation of the source file path into field ZUUID of table ZBINARYBLOB : when the comic file is moved, the ZBINARYBLOB needs to be changed. But how to change it in an automatic way? This would need to understand the ZUUID implementation... Comic Book Lover Database Model (database can be browsed wit… Continue

Added by BigBamBoo on March 7, 2009 at 4:25pm — No Comments

Popeye - Copyright free in the EU

Popeye is finally free in the EU while folks in the USA will have to wait until 2024 before they can start selling their own Popeye t-shirts, or drawing their own Popeye… Continue

Added by Simon on January 5, 2009 at 11:40pm — 1 Comment

Street Fighter Comics

Sticking with the Asian theme, coming out very soon is a mini-series based upon Chun Li... yes, the legendary fast-kicking heroine of Street Fighter! The release is timed for the upcoming launch of… Continue

Added by Simon on December 20, 2008 at 3:12am — No Comments

Old Master Q (Lao Fu Zi)

Fans of Asian comics should be familiar with one of Hong Kong's classic comic characters, Old Master Q (Chinese: 老夫子; pinyin: Lǎo Fū Zi). The official site is http://www.oldmasterq.com/ with an extensive archive of comic strips and you can find… Continue

Added by Simon on December 19, 2008 at 8:30am — No Comments

ROK Comics Now on iPhone

ROK Comics on iphone

British webcomics and mobile comics publisher and distributor ROK Comics has launched ROK Comics as an application on the Apple iPhone.

The ROK Comics application, the first of a planned series of applications currently in de

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Added by John Freeman on October 27, 2008 at 12:46pm — 1 Comment

ROK Comics Humour Competition Winners

ROK Comics is pleased to announce that the overall winner of its 2008 Humour Comic Competition is David Fletcher, for his strip featuring Crumb, his crazy, ever-hungry blackbird character. David’s entry, titled “… Continue

Added by John Freeman on October 3, 2008 at 11:07am — No Comments

ROK And A Hard Place Competition Winners

ROK Comics is pleased to announce that the winner of its 2008 ROK and A Hard Place Comics Competition, run in association with the Birmingham International Comic Show, is British comics artist Ian Stacey. Ian’s entry, titled “Noah and A Hard Place”… Continue

Added by John Freeman on October 3, 2008 at 11:00am — No Comments

Simon Mackie talks to Russell Willis about Infinity and beyond Tokyo 2008

Russell Willis produced and published a number of important underground cartoon magazines in the 1980s.He moved to Tokyo in the early 1990’s where he now runs a web based publishing company in Tokyo. I recently met up with Russell in Tokyo where we talked about Russell’s involvement with the UK comics underground two and a half decades ago

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Added by simon mackie on September 13, 2008 at 5:00pm — 2 Comments

Flick and Jube - The Web Comic ends this week

Flick and Jube has been a web comic on Drunk Duck and after 97 pages it ends this week. You can view the whole story buy clicking here Continue

Added by simon mackie on September 3, 2008 at 8:38pm — No Comments

Google's Chrome Comic by McCloud

This is an edited version of a post on www.linesandcolors.com/2008/09/02/scott-mcclouds-info-comic-for-google-chrome/ by Charley Parker. I've not come across this web site before -- it looks really interesting.

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Added by John Freeman on September 3, 2008 at 10:30am — No Comments

More Mobile Comics News

Mobile comic creator and Singapore-based marketing and brand development company Omnitoons has announced that they are co-developing “Manga-styled” mobile comics that will be based on Paramount Pictures’ films, in partnership with Paramount Digital Entertainment. The new mobile comics will be the first time that Paramount Digital Entertainment will release a series of mobile comics based on movies from its librar… Continue

Added by John Freeman on August 30, 2008 at 7:31am — No Comments

Any Scanners/Seeders on Here?

If you've got the heart and the skillz, drop me a line at holaATdangoldmanDOTnet; I have a question for you. -------thx-----> d! Continue

Added by Dan Goldman on August 24, 2008 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Murderdrome on iphone

Top British comic creators Al Ewing and PJ Holden have developed an iphone version of their new comics project Murderdrome. Find out more by watching the video below or visiting their blog.