The State of the iPhone Comic Book Scene

Newsarama has a new article that encapsulates a lot of the recent developments in the growing iPhone comic book scene.

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Take a look at: http://www.newsarama.com/comics/090128-sparks-itunes.html

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iPhone Comics are going Mainstream, Baby!

The New York Times has an article about reading comics on your iPhone or other mobile devices. It looks like even the mainstream press has figured out that reading your comic books on an iPhone is a great way to keep up on your daily recommended dose of comics.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/business/media/28proto.html?_r=1

Soon, even the daily comic strips like Garfiels and Pearls Before Swine will be easy to read on your iPhone or iPod Touch. The more we demand it from publishers, the sooner we can have all of our favorite comics on our iPhones!

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Lucky Luke Comic Book App Now Available at the iTunes Store

Lucky Luke iPhone comics

World-Famous cartoon cowboy Lucky Luke rides on to iPhones everywhere thanks to this new application.

Unfortunately, it is currently available only in French (the language in which it was created).

Lucky Luke is a Franco-Belgian comics series created by Morris, the original artist, and saw its best period written by René Goscinny. Set in the American Old West, it stars the titular character, Lucky Luke, the cowboy known to shoot faster than his shadow.

Along with The Adventures of Tintin and Asterix, Lucky Luke is one of the most popular and best-selling comic-book series in continental Europe

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iPhone Reader: Viewing .cbr files on Your iPhone

iPhone, cbr files and WinRAR
The most common format for comic book scans in the .cbr archive. Right now there’s no iPhone app available that can directly read .cbr files, but with a few little tweaks, you can convert all your .cbr files and read them on the iPhone.
CBR files are simply archives…a batch of image [...]

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