Thrillbent, Mark Waid’s publishing imprint for new
creator-owned digital comics, announced today a digital distribution agreement
with comiXology – the revolutionary digital comics platform available across
the iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire, Windows 8 and the Web, recently
announced as iTunes #3 top-grossing iPad app for all of 2012.
To celebrate this new partnership, Thrillbent is
digitally debuting Eisner Award-winning Mark Waid and Eisner-nominated Peter
Krause’s exciting ongoing super-hero saga Insufferable platform wide,
collecting the online comic in editions featuring new covers and brand-new
bonus material. Also, comiXology fans reading on iPads with the Retina Display
will get to experience these comics in stunning high-definition with CMX-HD.
Insufferable follows an estranged father and son superhero team (Nocturnus and
Galahad) forced grudgingly to reunite to tackle a dangerous new case.
“Mark Waid is one of the premier comic creators of our
time and it’s an honor to feature Thrillbent across the entire comiXology
platform,” says comiXology co-founder and CEO David Steinberger, “Waid made
waves when he announced his digital-only line of comics and it’s only natural
for us to give the Thrillbent line the comiXology Guided View experience and
global reach.”
“When we launched Thrillbent.com, our goal was to get
expertly crafted creator-owned comics in the hands of readers worldwide, and we
see comiXology as the perfect avenue to help reach that goal,” said Thrillbent
co-founder Mark Waid. “Thrillbent’s unique style of comics storytelling is a
great fit to comiXology’s Guided View, and I know fans everywhere will be
astonished by the digital comics evolution both companies are spearheading.
You’ve never seen anything like what we can do together.”
Recently announced as iTunes’ #3 top grossing iPad app of
2012, comiXology has over 30,000 comics and graphic novels from more than over
75 of today’s hottest publishers, giving comiXology the widest selection of
digital comics anywhere. ComiXology’s availability across the iPhone, iPad,
Android, Kindle Fire, Windows 8 and the Web makes it the best digital comics
platform for current, newly interested and lapsed comic, current and graphic
novel fans.