The explosive double-sized finale of The Battle for Gobwin Knob! Surrounded and outnumbered, Parson will have to challenge the very own rules of Erfworld to win the battle. When your last resort is a suicidal endgame, you know you’re booped.

The last of the last of the last stands by Rob Balder and Jamie Noguchi!

• Title: Erfworld #11
• Credits: Rob Balder (writer) / Jamie Noguchi (illustrator) / Carolina Folle (adaptation)
• Publisher: Robot Comics
• Price: $0.99 US
• License: Creative Commons
• Screens: 227

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Erfworld #11 is available in the Android Market. Scan the QR code below with your Android to receive its url.

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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.

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Robot Comics presents Yellow Peril, the first sitcom starring an Asian American! Download the free and official app for the office romance comedy webcomic by Jamie Noguchi (Erfworld).

Graphic designers Kane and Bodie try to stay sane while working at creative factory Pedanticorp.

A task which becomes increasingly difficult with the arrival of the new Art Director, corporate clone Steve, who has a passion for unbillable meetings and enforcing the dress code.

Joined by nearby restaurant owner Julie and new project manager Ally, these four friends will deal with the ever unreliable metro, fermented soy beans, impossible deadlines, incomprehensible client specs, and the emerging feelings between each other.

• Title: Yellow Peril
• Price: Free

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Stanley the Tool has decided that hardcore gamer Parson Gotti is not the warlord he expected. The hard task of changing his mind is up to Croakamancer Wanda. Hint: it involves a Kimono. A new installment of Erfworld by writer Rob Balder and illustrator Jamie Noguchi.

• Title: Erfworld #4
• Credits: Rob Balder (writer) / Jaime Noguchi (illustrator) / Carolina Folle (adaptation)
• Publisher: Robot Comics
• Price: $0.99 US
• License: Creative Commons
• Screens: 140

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Erfworld #4 is available for download on the following platforms:

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Click on the button below to open Erfworld #4 on the iTunes App Store. Requires iTunes.

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Erfworld #4 is available in the Android Market. Scan the QR code below with your Android to receive its url.

Alternatively, search “Erfworld” on the Market.

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Why did the Titans of Ark create Erfworld, a pretty but deadly world in a constant state of war?  And why would such careful craftsmen leave some of their tools behind?

Nobody knows.  But trying to collect these “Arkentools” has left Overlord Stanley the Plaid with a problem; everyone hates his guts.  His neighbors have wiped out his cities and his armies, and now they’re coming for him.

His long-suffering sorceress Wanda has a plan: they can buy a spell to summon the “perfect warlord,” a military genius to lead their last few forces in a final stand at the city of Gobwin Knob. Stanley is desperate enough to buy the spell. He just won’t pay for the support plan.

Enter Parson Gotti, an obsessive young gamer from Columbus, Ohio.  He’s beaten every strategy game he knows, and has started to design his own. Now Parson must stop playing general, and learn to be one. This war is all too real.  The game pieces are actual people.  Their lives are at stake, and so is his own.

• Title: Erfworld #1
• Credits: Rob Balder (Written by) / Jaime Noguchi (Illustrated by)
• Publisher: Robot Comics
• Price: Free
• License: Creative Commons
• Screens: 162

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Erfworld #1 is available for download on the following platforms:

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Click on the button below to open Erfworld #1 on the iTunes App Store. Requires iTunes.

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Erfworld #1 is available for free in the Android Market. Scan the QR code below with your Android to receive its url.

Alternatively, search “Erfworld” on the Market.

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Chosen by TIME Magazine as one of 2007’s Top Graphic Novels of the Year, the cult online hit Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob is soon coming to mobiles in a partnership with Robot Comics! Erfworld is a full-color fantasy epic about an obsessive strategy gamer who is summoned to lead a real war.  Originally published online under the Creative Commons license, Erfworld is today one of the most popular and heavily trafficked webcomic sites, supported by its own wiki consisting of 5000+ fan-created articles about the Erfworld universe, including a complete single panel annotated archive of the comic that would make a Grant Morrison fan proud.

Everything in Erfworld is clever — the dialogue, the sound effects, the complex relationships between the king and his underlings, and the strange mechanics of Erfworld, which are designed to tweak the clichés of strategy and fantasy gaming. Plus the art is oddly beautiful and very witty. If you’ve ever wondered what it would look like if a squadron of teddy bears fought a squadron of giant spiders, head straight for Erfworld.”  –Lev Grossman, TIME Magazine

Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob is a full-color graphic novel written by Rob Balder (PartiallyClips) and illustrated by Jamie Noguchi (Angry Zen Master).

Synopsis

Why did the Titans of Ark create Erfworld, a pretty but deadly world in a constant state of war?  And why would such careful craftsmen leave some of their tools behind?

Nobody knows.  But trying to collect these “Arkentools” has left Overlord Stanley the Plaid with a problem; everyone hates his guts.  His neighbors have wiped out his cities and his armies, and now they’re coming for him.

His long-suffering sorceress Wanda has a plan: they can buy a spell to summon the “perfect warlord,” a military genius to lead their last few forces in a final stand at the city of Gobwin Knob. Stanley is desperate enough to buy the spell. He just won’t pay for the support plan.

Enter Parson Gotti, an obsessive young gamer from Columbus, Ohio.  He’s beaten every strategy game he knows, and has started to design his own. Now Parson must stop playing general, and learn to be one. This war is all too real.  The game pieces are actual people.  Their lives are at stake, and so is his own.

Facing 25 to 1 odds, with nowhere to run or hide, Parson must come up with a way to win this battle.  He’s not sure how the strange, gamelike rules of Erfworld work.  He’s not even sure if any of this is really happening.  And he’s definitely not sure he’s working for the “good guys.”

Erfworld is funny and bizarre, full of surreal quirks, puns, and pop culture references.  But against this odd fantasy backdrop unfolds a deceptively subtle, intricate, and human story.  The characters wrestle with questions of conscience and universal meaning, even as they try to destroy one another.   “Erfworld: the Battle for Gobwin Knob” holds a funhouse mirror up to fantasy, gaming, and even war itself.

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About Robot Comics

Robot Comics publishes mobile comics for hand-helds such as Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch, Google’s Android mobiles, Nintendo DSi and Amazon’s Kindle. It is one of first and few mobile comic publishers who offer titles specifically designed and formatted to be read on e-devices. For more information contact: contact@robotcomics.net

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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 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).
• Publisher: IDW Publishing
• Price: Free
• License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States
• Screens: 101

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Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now

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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).
• Publisher: IDW Publishing
• Price: Free
• License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States
• Screens: 125

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Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now

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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.

Below is a rundown of the first titles that are already available in DSComics.com.

Thunder Road #1

A high-action, wide-sweeping episodic pulp adventure by writer Sean Demory and illustrator Steven Sanders (Five Fists of Science).

The bomb-ravaged American Heartland has been largely left out of the equation, falling prey to unchecked corporate land-barons and motorcycle-riding, nazidope-smoking MEF veterans ravaging the wastes. Some small towns have become fortresses, while others have followed the Soviet model and taken to the road, with clans roaming from one corp-compound to the next. Route 66, Interstate 70 and a dozen other superhighways have become the new frontier, where fortunes can be made with grit, cunning and a steady hand. Welcome to the Thunder Road.

Anda’s Game #1

An adaptation by Dara Naraghi (Terminator Salvation movie prequel) and Esteve Polls (Mega-City Noir) of the short story by Cory Doctorow (Boing Boing editor, Little Brother).

“[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

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.

Learn more about Anda’s Game.

Misery Depot

A mystery/science fiction one-shot drawn by Juan Romera (Zombie Highway: Directionless) and written by Hermes Pique, intended for mature audiences.

An anomaly causes an elderly mother to awake undressed inside a humid capsule. The voice of her daughter echoes in her memory, the intent of her words forgotten. Was she sharing the completeness of their unity, or hatefully wishing her mother’s demise?

A seemingly infinite corridor of capsules hosts hundreds of persons, calmly sleeping, miserable underneath. Yet, an old man shares the mother’s awareness, and is even certain of the nature of the place: a high-technology concentration camp; the second one for him to escape…

Learn more about Misery Depot.

About Robot Comics

Robot Comics publishes and produces digital comics for hand-helds, such as Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch, Google’s Android mobiles, Nintendo DSi, Amazon Kindle. We offer titles specifically designed and formatted to be read on e-devices.

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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).
• Publisher: IDW Publishing
• Price: Free
• License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States
• Screens: 88

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Anda’s Game #1 is available for download on the following platforms:

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Original story

Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now

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