“[A] riff on the way that property-rights are coming to games, and on the bizarre spectacle of sweat-shops in which children are paid to play the game all day in order to generate eBay-able game-wealth. When I was a kid, there were arcade kings who would play up Gauntlet characters to maximum health and weapons and then sell their games to nearby players for a dollar or two — netting them about $0.02 an hour — but this is a very different proposition indeed.” -Cory Doctorow (Boing Boing editor, Little Brother)
Originally published in the Creative Commons comic Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now by IDW Publishing, Anda’s Game is remixed by Robot Comics to create a new version specifically designed for mobile devices.
Title: Anda’s Game
Credits: Original version: Cory Doctorow (story), Dara Naraghi (adapted by), Esteve Polls (art), Robert Studio (colorist), Neil Uyetake (letterer), Ted Adams (editor), Justin Eisinger (collection edited by), Neil Uyetake (collection designed by). Remix: Yael Duckwen (adapted by), Hermes Pique (editor).
Part 2 of the 2 of the first Creative Commons comic released for the Nintendo DSi.
“[A] riff on the way that property-rights are coming to games, and on the bizarre spectacle of sweat-shops in which children are paid to play the game all day in order to generate eBay-able game-wealth. When I was a kid, there were arcade kings who would play up Gauntlet characters to maximum health and weapons and then sell their games to nearby players for a dollar or two — netting them about $0.02 an hour — but this is a very different proposition indeed.” -Cory Doctorow (Boing Boing editor, Little Brother) Originally published in the Creative Commons comic Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now by IDW Publishing, Anda’s Game is remixed by Robot Comics to create a new version specifically designed for Nintendo DSi.
Title: Anda’s Game #2 of 2
Credits: Original version: Cory Doctorow (story), Dara Naraghi (adapted by), Esteve Polls (art), Robert Studio (colorist), Neil Uyetake (letterer), Ted Adams (editor), Justin Eisinger (collection edited by), Neil Uyetake (collection designed by). Remix: Yael Duckwen (adapted by), Hermes Pique (editor).
Robot Comics is proud to announce the launch of DSComics.com, a comics site for Nintendo DSi which includes the first comics ever produced for this platform.
Through DSComics.com, Nintendo DSi users will we able to read comics specifically designed and formatted for this console. The service is completely free and doesn’t require to download or install third-party components. Users just need to open the Nintendo DSi Browser and navigate to dscomics.com to start reading comics.
The launch includes 3 free titles (Thunder Road, Anda’s Game and Misery Depot), of which two are Creative Commons licensed, that in this case allows fans to share and remix the comics at their leisure.
“Our goal is proximity in the broadest sense of the word. We don’t want anything -distribution, hardware, even money and copyright-, to get in the way between comics and their potential readers. By releasing free comics for popular hand-helds we are reaching a brand new audience that was largely ignored by the comics industry.”, states Hermes Pique, Robot Comics’s Director.
Not your father’s RPG. “[A] riff on the way that property-rights are coming to games, and on the bizarre spectacle of sweat-shops in which children are paid to play the game all day in order to generate eBay-able game-wealth. When I was a kid, there were arcade kings who would play up Gauntlet characters to maximum health and weapons and then sell their games to nearby players for a dollar or two — netting them about $0.02 an hour — but this is a very different proposition indeed.” -Cory Doctorow (Boing Boing editor, Little Brother) Originally published in the Creative Commons comic Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now by IDW Publishing, Anda’s Game is remixed by Robot Comics to create a new version specifically designed for Nintendo DSi.
Title: Anda’s Game #1 of 2
Credits: Original version: Cory Doctorow (story), Dara Naraghi (adapted by), Esteve Polls (art), Robert Studio (colorist), Neil Uyetake (letterer), Ted Adams (editor), Justin Eisinger (collection edited by), Neil Uyetake (collection designed by). Remix: Yael Duckwen (adapted by), Hermes Pique (editor).
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. Continue reading »
A young girl grows in a city under siege, where the war for the cure of a zombie outbreak destroys the life she once knew. After the Siege #2, a comic written by James Anthony Kuhoric, drawn by Guiu Vilanova, based on a short story by Cory Doctorow. Originally published as the Creative Commons comic Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now by IDW Publishing, After the Siege is remixed by Robot Comics to create a version specifically designed for iPhone, iPod touch and Android devices.
Title: After the Siege #2 of 2
Credits: Original: Cory Doctorow (story), James Anthony Kuhoric (adapted by), Guiu Vilanova (art), German Torres (color), Neil Uyetake (letterer), Tom Waltz (editor), Danny Parsons (cover), Justin Eisinger (collection edited by), Neil Uyetake (collection designed by). Remix: Yael Duckwen (adapted by).
A young girl grows in a city under siege, where the war for the cure of a zombie outbreak destroys the life she once knew. After the Siege #1, a comic written by James Anthony Kuhoric, drawn by Guiu Vilanova, based on a short story by Cory Doctorow. Originally published as the Creative Commons comic Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now by IDW Publishing, After the Siege is remixed by Robot Comics to create a version specifically designed for iPhone, iPod touch and Android devices.
Title: After the Siege #1 of 2
Credits: Original: Cory Doctorow (story), James Anthony Kuhoric (adapted by), Guiu Vilanova (art), German Torres (color), Neil Uyetake (letterer), Tom Waltz (editor), Danny Parsons (cover), Justin Eisinger (collection edited by), Neil Uyetake (collection designed by). Remix: Yael Duckwen (adapted by).
Would you trust a robot that can kill humans and chooses not to?
Originally published in the Creative Commons comic Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now by IDW Publishing, I, Robot is remixed by Robot Comics to create a new version specifically designed for iPhone, iPod touch and Android devices.
Title: I, Robot #2 of 2
Credits: Original version: Cory Doctorow (story), Dara Naraghi (adapted by), Erich Owen (art), Chris Mowry (letterer), Tom Waltz (editor), Ashley Wood (cover), Justin Eisinger (collection edited by), Neil Uyetake (collection designed by). Remix: Yael Duckwen (adapted by).
Who wouldn’t want a fully automatic, laser-guided, armor-piercing, self-replenishing personal sidearm?
Originally published in the Creative Commons comic Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now by IDW Publishing, Nimby and the D-Hoppers is remixed by Robot Comics to create a new version specifically designed for iPhone, iPod touch and Android mobiles.
Title: Nimby and the D-Hoppers
Credits: Original: Cory Doctorow (story), Dan Taylor (adapted by), Dustin Evans (art), Robbie Robbins (letterer), Tom Waltz (editor), Justin Eisinger (collection edited by), Neil Uyetake (collection designed by). Remix: Yael Duckwen (adapted by).
Would you trust a robot that can kill humans and chooses not to?
Originally published in the Creative Commons comic Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now by IDW Publishing, I, Robot is remixed by Robot Comics to create a new version specifically designed for mobile devices. Continue reading »
Robot Comics is a digital comics publisher for hand-helds: Apple's iPhone, Google's Android, Nintendo DSi and Amazon's Kindle. We offer titles specifically designed to be read on e-devices. (more)
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