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.
Droid Comic Viewer, our CBZ comic viewer for Android mobiles, can be used to enjoy traditional comics in a different way. Through CBZ support, Droid Comic Viewer allows you to read any comic that’s freely available.
Below is a partial list of free CBZ and CBR comics ready to download from the web. We will publish a tutorial about CBR to CBZ conversion shortly. If you don’t know what’s a CBZ or CBR file, please check this brief introduction first.
This is the first article in a series about adapting traditional comics into mobile comics, in which Robot Comics creators explain the decisions they made to adapt their own titles.
In this installment, Hermes Pique, writer of Misery Depot, provides a step by step tutorial on adapting a page of the original version of Misery Depot into various screens of its mobile version.
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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