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Neon Ichiban Launches on iOS

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Neon Ichiban has announced the launch of its iOS app, now available on iPhone and iPad. Founded by comiXology veterans David Steinberger and Chip Mosher, Neon Ichiban is a new digital destination for fans, creators, and publishers of comics and manga.

Highlights of the App include:

  • Crisp panel transitions, fluid full-page and two-page views
  • Built for both iPhone and iPad, including right-to-left navigation for manga
  • Offline reading —perfect for travel, commutes, or anytime you’re unplugged

The digital platform has leaned heavily into the “digital experience” and “digital collectibles” allowing individuals to get digital signatures and digital sketches on (some of) the comics purchased within the app. There is also a built-in secondary marketplace allows fans to buy and sell digital comics while ensuring publishers and creators benefit.

Since its launch, Neon Ichiban has grown rapidly. Fans now have access to titles from (in alphabetical order: Dark Horse, DC, DSTLRY, Dynamite, IDW Publishing, Kodansha, Legendary Comics, Mad Cave, Marvel, Oni Press, Rebellion, Titan Comics, Vault Comics, and more—with new publishers joining almost every month.

Launched in late 2025, Neon Ichiban serves readers and collectors alike not only with same-day-as-print comics, manga, collections, graphic novels, but also a host of innovative features only found at Neon Ichiban.

An Android app is coming soon.

ComiXology Vets launch Neon Ichiban, a New Digital Comics and Manga Platform featuring Marvel, DC, and more!

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ComiXology veterans and comic publisher DSTLRY founders David Steinberger and Chip Mosher have a new digital comics and manga venture, Neon Ichiban. Designed to transform how fans, creators, and publishers connect on a unified platform, Neon Ichiban sets a new standard for discovering, buying, reading, and collecting digital comics and manga. Neon Ichiban is a new online destination for global fans’ weekly comics fix, offering same day as print digital releases with an extensive backlist from all participating publishers.

The launch will include new weekly frontlist releases, iconic comics and manga runs from publishing giants including DC and Marvel Comics. Marvel Comics and DC will showcase extensive digital catalogs alongside additional launch publishers including Dark Horse Comics, DSTLRY, Kodansha, Oni Press, and Vault Comics, establishing Neon Ichiban as a one-stop-shop for global fans’ digital comics and manga needs. More participating publishers will be announced at a later date.

Digital comics fan have bemoaning the state of comiXology after its purchase by Amazon and have wanted competition, well here it is with major publishers at launch and more to come. Ichiban in Japanese translates to “number one,” “first,” or “best.” With that name, and their previous success, there’s a good chance this new platform easily reaches that position.

To celebrate the announcement, Neon Ichiban is offering fans who sign up for a pre-launch account here an exclusive, free digital collectible comic at launch.

WHAT MAKES NEON ICHIBAN DIFFERENT:

  • All-In-One Digital Platform: NEON ICHIBAN serves readers and collectors simultaneously, offering same-day-as-print comics, manga, collections, and graphic novels. Single issues come in always-available standard editions alongside limited-edition variants and sketch covers for collecting.
  • Customers in Control: NEON ICHIBAN gives you seamless digital control—read your comics online or offline, and download a local copy when publisher enabled. Purchases can also unlock exclusive on-and-offline perks.
  • Signed & Sketched Collectibles: With participating publishers, readers can turn their owned digital issues into one-of-a-kind collectibles with digital signatures and Remarques from top creators. These unique items can be treasured or resold with provenance intact.
  • Secondary Marketplace: Fans can buy and sell owned digital comics and collectibles from participating publishers, adding tangible value to digital purchases. Resales benefit publishers and creators.

For more information on Neon Ichiban and to keep up with the vast catalog of frontlist and backlist titles, with more content added weekly, sign up here.

DSTLRY announces a partnership with Lunar Distribution

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Lunar Distribution has announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with new publisher DSTLRY to distribute their products to the comic book specialty market. 

DSTLRY is a next-generation comics publisher and collectibles company that redefines creator-owned comic books for consumers worldwide. Founded by comiXology veterans David Steinberger and Chip Mosher, DSTLRY aims to revolutionize the creator-publisher relationship by giving their founding creators an equity stake in the company, in addition to retaining ownership of their characters and concepts.  

DSTLRY’s debut title, The Devil’s Cut, compiles unfiltered stories from the most fearless creators, offering a distinct taste of the quality to come. The title offers 72 oversized pages printed on premium paper, featuring a flight of high-proof work from Founding Creators Mirka Andolfo, Brian Azzarello, Marc Bernardin, Elsa Charretier, Becky Cloonan, Lee Garbett, Jock, Joëlle Jones, Tula Lotay, Jamie McKelvie, Junko Mizuno, Stephanie Phillips, Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV, and Ram V; edited by Founding Editor Will Dennis.

DSTLRY goes exclusive with Diamond Book Distributors for collected editions distribution. The Devil’s Cut debuts in 2023

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Diamond Book Distributors has announced that it has signed a worldwide distribution agreement with new publisher DSTLRY to exclusively distribute their collected editions to North American and international book markets. This agreement also sees DSTLRY being distributed to the comic book specialty market through Diamond Comic Distributors.

DSTLRY is a next-generation comics publisher and collectibles company that redefines creator-owned comic books for consumers worldwide. Founded by comiXology veterans David Steinberger and Chip Mosher, DSTLRY aims to revolutionize the creator-publisher relationship by giving their founding creators an equity stake in the company, in addition to retaining ownership of their characters and concepts. 

DSTLRY’s debut title, The Devil’s Cut, compiles unfiltered stories from the most fearless creators, offering a distinct taste of the quality to come. The title offers 72 oversized pages printed on premium paper, featuring a flight of high-proof work from Founding Creators Mirka Andolfo, Brian Azzarello, Marc Bernardin, Elsa Charretier, Becky Cloonan, Lee Garbett, Jock, Joëlle Jones, Tula Lotay, Jamie McKelvie, Junko Mizuno, Stephanie Phillips, Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV, and Ram V; edited by Founding Editor Will Dennis. The Devil’s Cut debuts this summer with the collected edition coming to shelves in 2024.

Former comiXology execs David Steinberger and Chip Mosher launch DSTLRY, a “next gen” comic publisher

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ComiXology co-founder and former CEO David Steinberger and former comiXology Head of Content Chip Mosher unveiled today DSTLRY. DSTLRY is “a next-generation comics publisher that redefines creator-owned comic books and collectibles.” The publisher will offer customers limited physical and digital item drops, available online or in-store at local comic shops, while providing creators with fairer deals alongside company ownership. The co-founders have been working on the project in stealth mode since departing comiXology/Amazon in summer 2022. 

DSTLRY’s investors include international publishing giants Kodansha USA and Groupe Delcourt, as well as video game luminary John Schappert, tech strategist Mike Vorhaus, and producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura—the last three make up DSTLRY’s Advisory Board. The focus is on premium content, hassle-free digital collectibles, and a more equitable comics industry. 

Chip Mosher and David Steinberger by Tula Lotay

DSTLRY’s Founding Creators include renowned writers and artists such as Scott Snyder, Tula Lotay, James Tynion IV, Junko Mizuno, Ram V, Mirka Andolfo, Joëlle Jones, Jock, Becky Cloonan, Brian Azzarello, Elsa Charretier, Stephanie Phillips, Lee Garbett, Marc Bernardin, Jamie McKelvie, and Founding Editor Will Dennis, with more Founding Creators, creative teams, and a publishing rollout to be announced later this year.

Each Founding Creator holds an equity stake in the company, and DSTLRY has set aside an additional 3% of company equity to be distributed among all creators who release projects during the first three years of DSTLRY’s publishing slate; allocation will be based on title performance. This innovative structure aligns DSTLRY with the comic creators, whose creations dominate the pop culture landscape but are too often under-recognized and under-compensated.

DSTLRY’s oversized, premium-format single-issues will be available in print at local comic shops while digital single-issues will be available for purchase for up to one week after release on dstlry.co. These eco-friendly digital issues will be fully owned and resellable on DSTLRY’s marketplace—a “Stub Hub for digital comics”—with benefits like special discounts, exclusive drops, and meetups with the creators, depending on the item. Collected editions of single-issue comics in both print and digital formats will be widely available.

Digital owners can resell their items on the DSTLRY marketplace at a price of their choosing, with a percentage of resale going back to the creators, while each physical issue will be a limited-edition premium collectible fans will love to read and collect. More details about these physical and digital collectibles will be announced later.

David Steinberger Leaves comiXology for a New Amazon-wide Initiative

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ComiXology CEO and co-founder David Steinberger announced he’d be leaving the digital comic platform for a “new Amazon-wide initiative”. ComiXology was purchased by Amazon in 2014.

Steinberger will continue to advise comiXology with Tom Ashley and Jeff DiBartolomeo taking over and managing the team.

Steinberger Tweeted:

It’s been a few big weeks, and I have personal news: I’ve been asked if I’d like to lead a new Amazon-wide initiative that is too good an opportunity to not take. It was a tough decision, but I’m ready for a new entrepreneurial challenge. I will love comics forever and I will continue to be an Advisor to @Comixology. Two long-term Comixology leaders, Tom Ashley and Jeff DiBartolomeo, will be managing the team moving forward. Tom and Jeff have been by my side for 9 years, and I can’t wait to see them execute their ideas for Comixology.

I’m extremely confident in Jeff and Tom, the rest of the Comixology leadership team, and the many passionate, comics-loving employees that strive day-in & day-out to make everyone on the planet lifelong fans. To all Comixologists: I’ve learned so much from you. Thank you.

can’t leave this thread without thanking the creators, publishers, and fans — many of whom are also dear friends — that make what we do possible. There are too many to thank personally here, but without you there is no Comixology, so: thank you.

For me, it’s been an amazing 15 years. It’s hard to leave the company I helped start with @johnnystorm0 & Peter, and still love, but I’m excited for the opportunity to explore another passion in my new role. My congratulations to Tom and Jeff! The best is still ahead.

David Steinberger is Elected to the Board of Directors of the CBLDF

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David Steinberger has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF). Steinberger is the co-founder and CEO of comiXology, an Amazon Company. Steinberger will serve alongside other current officers: President Christina Merkler; Vice President Chris Powell; Treasurer Ted Adams; and Secretary Dale Cendali. CBLDF’s at-large directors are Jeff Abraham, Jennifer L. Holm, Reginald Hudlin, Katherine Keller, Paul Levitz, and Gene Luen Yang. CBLDF’s Board of Directors oversees CBLDF’s mission protecting, preserving, and promoting the freedom to read comics.

For more than thirty years, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has protected the First Amendment rights of comics field and developed powerful education efforts in the service of the community. CBLDF has supported a wide range of cases in 2019, including successfully protecting the graphic novel Fun Home in New Jersey and providing legal support to retailers, educators, and creators. The organization’s resources support understanding and protection of First Amendment rights, most recently with Be Heard!, a comic book for students to help them understand their protest rights and the upcoming retailer handbook Selling Comics.

Around the Tubes

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It’s a new day, did you listen to our awesome episode of Graphic Policy Radio last night? No? Well you missed out!

Around the Tubes

The ComiChron – Flags waving: Justice League of America #1 sets new high marks – America!

ICv2 – Warners Loses One in Supes Fight – Luther!

Bleeding Cool – French Creator Unions Reach A Deal Over Digital Rights – Interesting stuff.

The New York Times – Miles to Go Before He Sings – I now have a mission. We will get him to sing.

Bleeding Cool – Nike’s Iron Man Air Force 1 Sneakers – Kind of want?

 

Around the Tubes Reviews

CBR – Dial H #10

The Beat – Relish

The Beat – Shadowman #5

ComiXology: iTune’s #3 Top-Grossing iPad App of 2012

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ComiXology is ending the year strong with a slew of announcements we’ll be covering. The first of which is the Comics by comiXology iOS app charted as iTunes’ #3 Top Grossing iPad App of 2012 and is the only app repeated in the top ten in both 2011 and 2012, showing remarkable power in the fickle world of apps by moving from #10 to #3.

ComiXology also revealed that they have served over 2 billion pages of comics since the inception of the platform just three short years ago.

David Steinberger, comiXology co-founder and CEO had to say:

We started comiXology because we believe that – with a great digital experience – graphic novels and comic books will be much more widely enjoyed. Actually climbing the top ten year-over-year – and the only app to do that, no less – speaks volumes to the quality of work both the comiXology team and our amazing publishers and creators have done this year. We’re not anywhere near done yet but we’re clearly off to a good start.

ComiXology co-founder John D. Roberts said:

This is a spectacular way to end what has been a spectacular year. It’s clear that people want to buy where they want and read what they want, and only comiXology delivers this amount of amazing content with a consistent shopping and amazing reading experience on every major platform.

2012 marked a year of records for comiXology, including both the 50 millionth and 100 millionth downloaded comic from comiXology, and many additions to the comiXology store, including many graphic novels and collections, from literary fiction to biographies, science and superheroes. It also marked the addition of Windows 8 to the buy once, read anywhere platform.

ComiXology’s top ranking digital comics platform has over 30,000 comics and graphic novels to read from over 75 of today’s hottest publishers, comiXology offers the widest selection of digital comics anywhere. ComiXology’s availability on the iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire, Windows 8 and the Web makes it the best digital comics platform for newly interested, current and lapsed comic and graphic novel fans.

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The weekend is almost here!  Yay!  My plan is to catch up on writing reviews, what about you?  While you decide on that, here’s the news you might have missed.

Around the Blogs:

Spinoff Online – Universal Chief Unloads on Wolfman, Cowboys & Aliens – Some honesty here.

ICv2 – Comics in Turnaround? – I remain skeptical for the direct market.

Gizmodo – Exclusive: All Marvel Digital Comics Will Be Available Same Day as Print – Kind of shocked this didn’t happen sooner.

Screenrant – Interview: comiXology CEO David Steinberger on Digital Comics, Pricing, & The New 52 – A pretty decent interview.  Worth the read.

Comics Alliance – ‘Real-Life Superhero’ Phoenix Jones Loses Job, Prohibited from Working with Children – Forget bad guys going after your family, the first issue is keeping your job.

Kotaku – Should You Buy Batman: Arkham City’s Nightwing Bundle Pack? No. – The first weakness in Batman’s pretty damn strong armor.

Around the Tubes Reviews:

CBR – Action Comics #3

CBR – Fear Itself #7.1

IGN – Comic Book Reviews for 11/2/11

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