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Follow on Google News | Comics Thing – A New Tool For Digital Comics – Kicks-Off Next Week On IndiegogoComics Thing, a new tool for creating, reading and distributing digital comics, will launch their first IndieGoGo campaign Monday 18 March.
By: Comics Thing According to creator Charles Kriel, digital producer, writer and ex-BBC Radio 1 artist-in-residence, the Comics Thing creation tool will be as easy to use as PowerPoint, as feature-rich as Flash, and will create comics distributable across iOS and Android tablets, phones and readers. Comics Thing’s unique mobile platformgives readers the chance to mix their current collections of PDF and CBZcomicswith new purchased comics acquired through Comics Thing or indie store apps using the engine. Comics makers will be able to include audio, video, animations, interactions, dynamic feeds and more in their new comic books and graphic novels. Makers and indies will have complete control over pricing, content, discounts, series, etc. Most notable, indies and makers won’t have to give up both 50% of profits –or editorial control –as is the case with many current digital comics services. According to Kriel, if someone makes a digital comic with most current services, retailers like Apple or Google Play typically take 30% off the sales price. The remaining 70% is splitwith the digital comics service, leaving only 35% to be again split between the publisher, writer and artist. Because the intention with Comics Thing is to return control back to artists, writers, indies and readers, and the technology will be open source, Kriel says he believes the best source of finance is crowdfunding. He says this leaves Comics Thing beholden only to writers, artists, publishers and readers. Comics Thing’s IndieGoGo campaign link, once launched Monday 18 March, will be: www.indiegogo.com/ Comics Thing’s first IndieGoGo video is available now at: http://www.youtube.com/ Comics Thing on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ About Comics Thing Comics Thing is a new and open source product for creating, reading and distributing digital comics, being developed by Charles Kriel at his company, Comics Thing, in Brighton, United Kingdom. End
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