It’s nice to see publishers trying to reach casual comics readers via mainstream bookstores, but the reading experience is better in Comixology’s Comics app, which was purpose-built for reading comics. (These bookstores are now also beginning to offer individual issues, not just trade paperbacks, if you prefer to keep everything you read within the iBooks or Kindle app.) But they’re also available where regular books are sold: on Apple’s iBookstore, Amazon’s Kindle Store, the Google Play bookstore, and Barnes & Noble’s Nook Store. You can buy many of these trade-paperback-style collections, sometimes at a discount over buying the individual issues, via Comixology.

We now see that trend paralleled in the world of digital comics. Just as your Amazon Kindle ebook purchases are available across any device with a Kindle app, all your Comixology purchases are available for download and re-download at any time from any device running the Comics app and viewable on the Web.

If you buy them on a Nexus 10, you can read them on the Web. If you buy them on the Web, you can read them on an iPad. One of the best things about Comixology’s approach is that the company keeps track of all your purchases regardless of where you made them. You can purchase a comic directly within the app, or read comics you’ve purchased separately via Comixology’s website. The Comics app (in all its forms) provides a storefront that’s inspired by iTunes and the App Store, with a showcase for featured comics, as well as lists of new and popular items. Website.) Comixology is also the company behind the officialĭC Comics apps, which are just relabeled versions of the Comics app.

(You can also buy and read comics directly on its The best source for these single-issue comics is a company called Comixology, which makes an app called Comics forĪndroid. To this day, the major comics publishers still produce these issues-though they cost $3 or $4 now instead of the 25 cents I (okay, my mom) paid for my first comic.

This is what my mom always called a “funnybook,” and it’s what I remember purchasing from a supermarket spinner rack as a kid. Traditionally, comics were published monthly in small, flimsy issues.

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