Image Comics has recently partnered with Graphicly,
an online digital comics reader, in order to bring its comics to readers in a
more convenient digital format by making them available online.
Image Comics is one of the largest comic book
publishers in America, and the largest creator-owned one. They publish titles
such as Invincible, the ongoing
adventures of a young superhero who inherited his father’s powers, and The Walking Dead, the zombie-filled
comic that has now been adapted into a successful television series. Graphicly
had already partnered with quite a few other publishers, including Marvel
Comics and Archie Comics, to make comic books available to be read online. Now
Image’s major titles will be readily available for readers online through Graphicly’s website as well.
Due to their partnership with Graphicly, Image
comics will also be available on Barnes & Noble’s NOOKcolor, Amazon’s
Kindle Fire, and through Facebook as well, as Graphicly is the only comic
reader currently available as a Facebook application. Users will be able to
browse, purchase, read, and share comics directly from Image’s Facebook page,
making comics more easily accessible than ever.
Another great benefit of this new partnership is that
Image’s comics will be made available on Graphicly the same day that they are
also released in print. Although other comics publishers have delved into
digital comics before, such as Marvel with their large collection of digital
comics on their website, it has often taken several months for comics to be
transferred into digital format after being released in print. With Image
Comics on Graphicly, though, the print and digital copies will be released at
the same time, so readers who prefer the digital format will not have to miss
an issue or get behind on their reading.
Thanks to the technological wonders of the digital
age, comic books are becoming more and more accessible online instead of just
through print. So if you’re a fan of great comics, take advantage of the
situation and check out some of Image’s newly available comics on Graphicly.
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