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Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now is the Creative Commons comics adaptation of six short stories by Boing Boing editor and science-fiction writer Cory Doctorow. Originally published by IDW Publishing, Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now was converted from traditional print comic to mobile comic by digital comics publisher Robot Comics. The result are eight Creative Commons mobile comics specifically designed for iPhone, iPod touch and Android devices, some of which are also adapted for Nintendo DSi. Combined, the mobile Futuristic Tales have been downloaded more than 60,000 times.
| Title | iPhone & iPod touch | Android Market url | Android Market QR code | Nintendo DSi |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anda’s Game |  |
Open Market | DSComics.com | |
| When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth | |
Open Market | ||
| Craphound | |
Open Market | Coming soon! | |
| Nimby and the D-Hoppers | |
Open Market | ||
| I, Robot #1 | |
Open Market | Coming soon! | |
| I, Robot #2 | |
Open Market | Coming soon! | |
| After the Siege #1 | |
Open Market | Coming soon! | |
| After the Siege #2 | |
Open Market | Coming soon! |
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June 27th, 2009 at 1:00 am
Downloaded all of these for my iPhone, and I’m working my way through them…
I am a little annoyed with the reader software; I figured out that I navigate pages by “swiping”, but that fails the majority of the time; I consistently need to “swipe” right-to-left two or three times before I manage to turn the page. There’s no user feedback to indicate why this is failing (waiting for content to download?). I’d also like to see the ability to just “tap” the side of the screen to paginate, like in Stanza or the Kindle app. Still, pretty good for v1.
Will you have a presence at San Diego Comic Con?
June 27th, 2009 at 8:57 am
Dear Sean,
Thank you for your feeback. We’re about to launch a new comic viewer for iPhone that should solve this issue. In the meantine, we suggest using bottom corner taps for navigation if swiping is giving you trouble.
We won’t be in SDCC this year.
August 20th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Is there a way we can look at the entire comic, vs just the preview graphics, on the PC? I don’t have any of those specific portable devices (I have a blackberry storm), but I’d still love to check out the comics.
August 20th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Dear Skennedy,
You can download the comic for PC from the Internet Archive:
http://www.archive.org/details/CoryDoctorowsFuturisticTalesOfTheHereAndNow
December 3rd, 2009 at 3:59 pm
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