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Robot Comics' Creative Commons Line for Mobiles reaches 30,000+ downloads
Posted: Monday, June 29, 2009
Posted By: Kevin Powers
ROBOT COMICS is proud to announce its new CREATIVE COMMONS line of mobile comics for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and Google Android!
Following the macroeconomics practice of releasing free products to extend the use of any given platform, Robot Comics hopes to increase the awareness, use, and natural enjoyment of mobile comics worldwide by releasing professionally produced mobile versions of open source comics media.
The titles currently available are:
1) Cory Doctorow's Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now
Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now is the Creative Commons comics adaptation of six short stories by Boing Boing editor and science-fiction writer Cory Doctorow. Originally published in print by IDW Publishing, Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now was adapted from traditional print to mobile comic issues by digital comics publisher Robot Comics. The result are eight Creative Commons mobile comics specifically designed for iPhone, iPod touch and Android devices. Combined, the mobile Futuristic Tales have been downloaded more than 30,000 times in less than two months.
Cory recently covered the Robot Comics release of his work on his BOING BOING blog - http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/24/my-graphic-novel-for.html, including a reference to the somewhat controversial rejection of his the first issue of FTotHaN by Apple - http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/03/apples-censors-remov.html
For the full list of titles and links for readers to directly find the stories on the Apple or Google marketplace, go to http://www.robotcomics.net/2009/06/cory-doctorows-futuristic-tales/#more-754
2) Ubunchu
Ubunchu, the unnoficial manga of the world’s cutest Linux distro, is now available worldwide on Apple’s mobile phones. Two editions are offered: the original Japanese right-to-left version and the Western left-to-right adaptation. And like its inspiration Ubuntu, it can be downloaded for free.
SYNOPSIS: The Sysadmin Club has bought a shiny new awesome computer. Will it run Windows? A CLI-based Linux? Mac? Risa may have another answer…
Created by Hiroshi Seo and originally published by ASCII Media Works Inc. under a Creative Commons license, which has allowed its translation and adaptation into multiple languages and formats. Robot Comics has created a remix specifically designed for Android, iPhone and iPod touch devices.
Credits: Hiroshi Seo (written and illustrated by), Fumihito Yoshida (translator), Hajime Mizuno (translator), Martin Owens (translation editor), Arturo Silva (translation editor), Yael Duckwen (remixed by).
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE UBUNCHU MANGA FOR MOBILES visit http://www.robotcomics.net/2009/06/unofficial-ubuntu-manga-ubunchu-arrives-iphone and http://www.robotcomics.net/2009/05/ubunchu-1-righttoleft-2 and http://www.robotcomics.net/2009/06/ubunchu-1-lefttoright
UBUNCHU Issue #2 (also Creative Commons) was recently released in Japan and will be released next month by us.
3) Misery Depot
Description: An anomaly causes an elderly mother to awake undressed inside a humid capsule. The voice of her daughter echoes in her memory, the intent of her words forgotten. Was she sharing the completeness of their unity, or hatefully wishing her mother’s demise?
A free mystery/science fiction one-shot intended for mature audiences, available in two editions: MISERY DEPOT REDUX and MISERY DEPOT DEFINITE.
Thematic sequel (also Creative Commons) Empathy will be released next month.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON MISERY DEPOT VISIT: http://www.robotcomics.net/2009/03/misery-depot-redux and http://www.robotcomics.net/2009/03/misery-depot-definite/
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