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CMON’s Comic Imprint Guillotine Press Brings Asmodee’s Twilight Imperium and Android to Graphic Novels in 2021

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CMON LTD and Asmodee Entertainment have entered into a licensing partnership to bring two of the most famous boardgame universes of all time to the pages of comics! The best-selling game worlds of Twilight Imperium and Android are slated to make their graphic novel debut in 2021. The deal is the latest example of Asmodee Entertainment’s continued expansion into licensed publishing opportunities. For CMON, this deal secures the first-ever licenses for their newly minted comics arm, Guillotine Press.

CMON has seen some of their games turned into comics through IDW Publishing and recently Kickstarted three graphic novels “CMON Comics – Vol. 1.” That project raised $501,632 from 12,261 backers and featured not just print comics but expansions for CMON’s popular tabletop board games. It’s slated to be delivered in February 2021.

As with CMON’s first set of graphic novels, these new books will be created by veteran writers and artists, who will bring their immense talents to the projects. Scheduled to be launched on Kickstarter in 2021, the books will be paired with tie-in game components designed to delight long-time fans of both franchises.

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Twilight Imperium, the genre-defining 4x strategy game immersing players into interstellar conquest and diplomacy for over 20 years, is set against the backdrop of a sweeping, epic space opera filled with iconic races, locations, ships, and characters. Twilight Imperium was first released in 1997 and has seen four editions released with the latest in 2017. The game was designed by Christian T. Petersen with art by Bill Heagy.

Meanwhile, the cyber-noir setting of Android explores a future where megacorporations compete across the globe and cyber-espionage is just business as usual whilst criminal gangs fight for dominance in the overcrowded streets below gleaming corporate starscrapers. Android has been explored through board games, card games, and roleplaying games for over a decade. Android was released in 2008 by designers Daniel Clark and Kevin Wilson. It features art by Julie Dillon, Henning Ludvigsen, Stefan Morrell, Aaron Panagos, Didier Poli, and Zoe Robinson. 2012 saw the release of the popular card game Android Netrunner by Richard Garfield and Lukas Litzsinger which featured art by Bruno Balixa, Ralph Beisner Del Borovic, Adam S. Doyle, Amelie Hutt, Thomas Lishman, Henning Ludvigsen, Ed Mattinian, Dallas Mehlhoff, Adam Schumpert, Mark Anthony Taduran, and Matt Zeilinger. That release saw numerous expansions well into 2018.

Both the Twilight Imperium and the Android game lines are products of Asmodee’s Fantasy Flight Games studio.

eigoMANGA Is Developing a Comic Streaming App for iPhone and Android Devices

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eigoMANGA has announced its plan to launch a comic media streaming app for iOS and Android devices.

eigoMANGA’s app will include access to digital comics, video animation, and music soundtracks. Users will be able to stream and discover comic media, search and filter by genre, creator and title, save comics to read offline, as well as find out more about their favorite studios. Users can also review and recommend titles with the ability to share their favorites on social media.

The app will be free to download and content will also be available for free within the app with no sign up required. It’s slated to be released for iOS and Android devices within the Spring of 2019.

The company is a long time player in the tech world releasing video games and a virtual reality comics app. With numerous choices on the market, it’ll be interesting to see how this new addition can stand out from the crowd.

VIZ Media Teams with Cryptozoic and Quidd for Anime-Based Digital Collectibles

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Cryptozoic Entertainment, VIZ Media, and Quidd, Inc. have announced an extensive partnership to create digital collectibles based on major anime properties. Naruto Shippuden is the first title from VIZ Media’s catalog that Cryptozoic has brought to Quidd which is available on iOS and Android. Fans will soon also be able to buy and sell digital stickers, trading cards, and figures based on Bleach, Death Note, and other classic series.

Founded in 2015, Quidd’s innovative platform for collecting, rare digital goods blends the notions of emotional and functional ownership while leveraging scarcity in the digital retail experience. With over 1.9 billion individually serialized items sold since launch in 2016, Quidd’s digital goods ledger is the largest on the planet.

ComicBlitz Launches on Android

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ComicBlitz has launched their digital comics service on Android with a new app. ComicBlitz is an all-you-can-read comics app featuring more than 4,500 comics and graphic novels representing more than 750 titles and more than 25 publishers such as IDW, Valiant, Top Cow, Dynamite, Action Lab, Zenescope, Aspen, Abrams ComicArts, DMC Comics and many others. The premium monthly subscription price for the full comic library is $7.99.

The company has all be running a crowdfunding investor campaign on WeFunder where over 200 individuals have contributed close to $100,000.

WeFunder allows fans, enthusiasts, and supporters to invest in the company. The investments will be used to strike deals with other top key publishers and to continuously improve the overall consumer features.

The campaign is set to close on April 29.

ComicBlitz’s Android Public Beta Kicks Off

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As announced last week, ComicBlitz, often called the “Netflix of digital comic books,” opens up an exclusive testing opportunity of their long awaited Android beta test to comics fans beginning today.

ComicBlitz sprung from it’s founder’s lifelong love of comics, and seeks to provide an alternative to existing platforms, putting the end user ahead of all other interests to provide the premier digital comics reading experience.

ComicBlitz’s new Android beta app gives users unlimited access to over 4,000 digital comics and graphic novels from top tier publishers like IDW, Top Cow, Dynamite, Valiant Entertainment, and more!

Comic fans can visit comicblitz.com today to sign up for this exclusive opportunity to beta test the upcoming ComicBlitz Android app!

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ComicBlitz Opens Up Its Android App Beta. App Launching in January.

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comicblitzComicBlitz announced today that it would launch an Android version of its App in early 2017. A beta test of that app was announced to begin December 19. ComicBlitz is a “Netflix like” service for digital comics and recently added IDW Publishing to its offerings.

Comic Blitz’s new Android beta app gives users unlimited access to over 4,000 digital comics and graphic novels from top tier publishers like IDW, Top Cow, Dynamite, Valiant Entertainment, and more!

ComicBlitz is an “all you can read” digital comics service that currently has a tiered service from a basic free platform limited to a few dozen comics, 10 comics a month for $3.99, or unlimited reading for $7.99.

Digital comic fans can visit comicblitz.com today to sign up for the opportunity to beta test the upcoming ComicBlitz Android app.

Madefire Heads to TV on Google’s Nexus Player

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Madefire_M_logo_stack_blackMadefire has announced that its comic book Android app is one of an exclusive set of apps that Google will deliver as part of the newest streaming device for TV – Nexus Player.

This gives readers and viewers the ability to interact with Madefire’s digital storytelling experience on TV.

Madefire is also the first app from the comics/reading category offered via Nexus Player. Madefire’s Motion Books are suited to the big screen, with a combination of art, sound and interactivity that expands the possibilities of digital storytelling.

Google’s Nexus Player allows the Android experience to come to home entertainment centers through apps, services and content accessible through televisions.

This isn’t the first way for digital comics to come to television screens. There’s many options available including streaming technology, television web browsers, and syncing televisions with computers. It’ll be interesting to see how the comics look as televisions provide a reading surface much larger than the available computers, tablets, and phones.

ComiXology Expands Android & Kindle Fire apps with French Language Content

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ComiXology has taken another step in its global expansion today with the debut of their latest Android and Kindle Fire app upgrades, enabling fans across the globe to navigate the comiXology mobile platform in French. French language navigation is now present on comiXology’s Android, Kindle Fire and iOS apps, with all these mobile apps now supporting Euro currency purchasing.

ComiXology has over 500 French language titles available in comiXology’s cinematic panel-by-panel Guided View digital reading technology. The debut of these titles marks the first time French bandes dessinée (BD) content has been available in comiXology’s immersive Guided View reading technology, offering fans a unique reading experience that redefines how comics are read on digital devices. Guided View reading technology is only available on comiXology’s cloud-based platform.

According to Kantar Worldpanel Comtech, the global market research company that tracks sales of handsets in key markets in rolling 12 week cycles, on average Android accounted for 64% of handset sales in France for the first quarter of 2013. And Android currently has 51% of the current smartphone base in France.

To download comiXology’s apps for Android, Kindle Fire and iOS:
For Android
For Kindle Fire
For iOS

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Marvel Unlimited Now On Android

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Now Android users can take their Marvel library of streaming digital comics anywhere at anytime, with Marvel Unlimited now available on Android devices via Google Play!

Previously available on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch  and web-browsers, Marvel Unlimited provides a deep online reading experience utilizing Marvel’s patented digital reading technology while providing seamless access across multiple platforms. Marvel, in collaboration with Chaotic Moon Studios, brings fans access to the entire Marvel Unlimited archive on- and off-line through the Marvel Unlimited app, along with exclusive member-only benefits and offers that no fan can miss!

The Marvel Unlimited app is available for free on Google Play and in the App Store.

Launched in November 2007, Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited was the first major digital comics initiative from any of the top North American comic book publishers. This innovative all-you-can-read subscription service offers over 13,000 of Marvel’s greatest comics—and that number grows every week! The Marvel Unlimited library remains the most comprehensive digital comics library offered by any comics publisher!

To celebrate this exciting launch, new members can join Marvel Unlimited at a special limited time price of only $59.88 for an annual membership if you sign up before May 15th! So what are you waiting for? Head on over to http://www.marvel.com/unlimited today and get in on the action!

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