Since August 22th Google is recommending Scott Pilgrim to all owners of Android devices. The free sampler of the Scott Pilgrim mobile comic is one of the 15 apps featured on the Android Market front-page.

Described as “pure awesome” by AndroidHeadlines.com and rated 4.5/5 by Android users, the Scott Pilgrim Android app is initially available in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and UK.

Scott Pilgrim’s precious little app is published by the innovative HarperCollins imprint, Fourth Estate, and developed by Robot Comics/Robot Media, the leading comics provider for Android.

Robot Comics has translated Bryan Lee O’Malley’s comic book to mobiles through movement, sound and vibration, creating an original reading experience tailored for Android devices.  An experience which also becomes interactive and social when readers discover secret content carefully hidden in the scenes of the comic, as well as use an in-app commenting system that utilizes Twitter and Facebook to share the clues.

Scott Pilgrim is the second mobile comic featured by Google in their Android marketplace. The first one was the indie hit Robot 13 by Thomas Hall and Daniel Bradford, also produced by Robot Comics, which has been downloaded by almost 200,000 Android users to date -a number rarely reached by print editions.

With a launching price of £3.49 per volume, well below the print version, the Scott Pilgrim app is on its way to become the best-selling mobile comic for Android devices, and the first of many mainstream comic titles that finds a new audience in the Android Market.

The Scott Pilgrim app is also available for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Visit http://www.scottpilgrimtheapp.com for more information.

The Scott Pilgrim app by Fourth Estate and Robot Comics is now available in selected countries* from the Android Market.

Scott Pilgrim’s Android app translates Bryan Lee O’Malley’s comic book to mobile through movement, sound and vibration to create an original reading experience. An experience which also becomes interactive and social when readers start discovering secret content carefully hidden in the scenes of the comic, and use the in-app commenting system, Twitter and Facebook to share the clues.

Each volume of the graphic novel is priced at £3.49 and a sampler containing the first chapter of the first volume is offered for free. An iPhone/iPod touch/iPad version of the app is also available.

* Currently Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and UK.

Selected screenshots

A good logo conveys the identity of its brand in a memorable way. If you’ve been with us for a while, you will most likely agree that our previous logo didn’t fit the bill.

Enter illustrator extraordinaire Jamie Noguchi, which you may already known from Erfworld or more recently Yellow Peril. Jamie is not only a rising comic book artist, but also very talented logo designer, with a propensity for cuteness.

We approached Jamie with high expectations and a list of everything we wanted our new logo to transmit. He nailed it in his first attempt, and after some minor adjustments, this was the final result.

Robot Comics is a big proponent of Creative Commons, and so is Jaime, whose two comics published under our label are distributed under this license. Our new logo is also available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Through this license we invite you to play with our cutest robot yet, and share with us the results. You can start with the above image in vectorial format. The best remixes will be published in a later post, and we will let our readers vote for their favorite.

What do you think of our new logo? Let us know below.

Robot Comics Logo by Robot Media SL is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

A new version of Droid Comic Viewer (ACV), the free comic, manga and image viewer for Android mobiles, was released today and is now available in the Android Market, AndAppStore and soon AppsLib.

Version 1.3.10 includes usability and performance upgrades, bug fixes and a new auto-bookmarking feature. The most significant changes are:

• Auto-bookmarking: remembers last read position of all viewed files
• Renamed SD Browser setting group to Memory
• New Memory > Clear history setting to clear all viewing history (auto-bookmarks in particular)
• Share this screen now shares the screen, not the image file
• New Support > Low memory setting to disable pre-loading and transitions. Might help for some files that cause out of memory errors.
• Improved memory management to decrease like-hood of out of memory errors
• Added ACV mime type to supported intents

With more than 150.000 users and counting it was about time that we opened a forum for Droid Comic Viewer, the leading Android comic and manga reader.

The Droid Comic Viewer forums will give Droid Comic Viewer community an official and open channel to requests features, report bugs, and get involved, be it users, comic book creators or Android developers.

Droid Comic Viewer is what it is thanks to its awesome community. Through these brand new forums we hope to help its community grow and make Droid Comic Viewer better.

Visit forums.droidcomicviewer.com and let us know how can we improve Droid Comic Viewer, or help us do it yourself.

Jonathan Liu of GeekDad fame posted a comprehensive review/overview of Robot Comics as a mobile comics publisher.  He pointed out the exact strengths and weaknesses we’d give ourselves.

Here’s a snippet:

One of my favorite sources of comics for the iPhone (and iPod touch) is Robot Comics. They have a decent catalog of titles, and the best part is that most of them start off free. For comics with multiple issues, the first one is usually free and the rest are available for $.99 each through an in-app download. There are several single-issue comics that are free as well, including several adaptations of Cory Doctorow stories. (”Craphound” is one of my favorites.) When you purchase a later “episode,” as they call them, it simply shows up in the index. Each comic has its own app icon on your home screen which contains all the issues. It might be nice to be able to combine them into one Robot Comics viewer app, though I suppose the new iPhone OS will allow you to group them if you choose.

Some of the comics I’ve reviewed previously have been through Robot Comics: Erfworld and Robot 13, for instance. A more recent release is Valentine, a fantasy-horror set during the War of 1812, which was simultaneously released in about a dozen languages. I compared the English and Chinese versions, and was pretty impressed with the way both of them looked.

Read More http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2010/04/the-first-ones-always-free-robot-comics-for-iphone/#ixzz0lI3mZhMd

Thanks, Jonathan and GeekDad!  And just for your info, Jonathan (and also to you readers out there who care), a single iTunes viewer to store all the comics is coming very, very soon. So stay tuned.

Creator Jason James and his Scarycaravan Media crew – the fellas behind the unique mobile comic experience known as “ghostboy” (and look for a major announcement concerning ghostboy in the coming months), have donated a gorgeous donated an original ghostboy panel to Hi-Ex Comic Con for inclusion in their charity raffle (the proceeds of which, like the auction, will be donated to Children 1st).

The panel is taken from the upcoming ghostboy Issue #1, and here’s a peek:

So if you’re attending Hi-Ex over in Scotland this year during March 27th-28th, make sure you enter the raffle and give lots and lots of money to the children!  Who knows?  You may just walk away with original ghostboy art….

Click the image below to visit the Hi-Ex website for details:

Announced yesterday on the Tom Hall’s (writer of Robot 13) “Enlightened Words” blog:

The 8th annual Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards Ballot has been released, and Robot 13 has been nominated for Best Horror Comic Book!

The Rondo awards are a yearly program to allow fans of Horror to vote for their favorites in Horror film, books, comics, music and general fandom and can be voted on by YOU the fan!  If you go to Rondoaward.com, you can get the ballot information as well as info about the Rondos and lists of past winners.  You can vote for as many or as few of the categories as you like- so if there are those that you just don’t know anything about, feel free to pass on those and vote for the categories you feel strongly about.  All votes must be emailed to taraco@aol.com with your name (so they can adhere to the One Person=One Vote rule) by Midnight of April 3, 2010.

While we would LOVE for you to Vote for Robot 13 for Best Horror Comic Book, I want to also encourage you to check out the site and vote for as many of the categories as you feel knowledgeable about. It’s an awesome, grass roots type of thing and a HUGE honor to be nominated for everyone involved.

Rock The Vote Today!

Well my goodness will wonders never cease – a full length review of a mobile comic on a major comic book news site!  Hopefully this trend will continue.

Big, big, big shout out to Chris Kiser (reviewer) and Matt Mclean (editor) for giving VALENTINE a nice fat spotlight review over at COMICS BULLETIN.  And a glowing review to boot!

Here’s an excerpt:

Valentine #1 – #4 Review

(via Comics Bulletin)
By: Chris Kiser

If comics are to thrive and grow as a medium in the 21st century, they’ll have to find their place somewhere in the midst of the digital world. Of course, you don’t need me to tell you that. It seems like everyone with a blog, column, or message forum login has offered his or her opinion on how online comics will (or won’t) work. But while these pundits drown themselves in speculation, a few innovative creators are actually putting their digital comics on the market.

Valentine, by Alex de Campi and Christine Larsen, is one such effort. It ventures into the era of Napoleonic France’s ill-advised invasion of Russia, focusing in on young Valentine Renaud, one of the failed campaign’s few surviving soldiers. As Valentine seeks to make his way home, he finds himself embroiled in an ages old conflict involving a supernatural, demonic foe, and a mysterious, powerful sword.

The series has been created specifically for reading on an electronic mobile device, meaning that it’s not simply a regular comic book scanned onto your computer screen. Following an iTunes-like sales model, episodes of Valentine may be purchased for many of the popular smart phones as well as for an e-book reader like the Amazon Kindle. The specific restrictions of these formats, as well as their unique capabilities, contribute to a reading experience that couldn’t be replicated on paper.

Read the rest of it by clicking here.