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Free Eisner Awards App for iPhone and iPod Touch!

Uclick has announced the release of a free Eisner Awards app for iPhone and iPod Touch. The app gives a brief background of the Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards and their namesake, legendary comics creator Will Eisner, as well as information and images of each of the nominated works in the 26 award categories.

The app will update to note the winners shortly after they are announced at a special ceremony at the San Diego Comic Con on July 24.

To download the free Eisner Awards app for your iPhone or iPod Touch, click here or on the image below (launches iTunes).

CBR covers iPhone Comics from Uclick

Comic Book Resources has posted an article on the Uclick panel at New York Comic Con last weekend. The panel, which covered our rapidly growing line of comic apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch, included Uclick Creative Director Peter Maresca, President and CEO Douglas Edwards, VP of Product Management Jeff Webber, Comics Producer Shena Wolf and Comicraft President and comics creator Richard Starkings (Starkings' Elephantmen #1 is one of the most recent comics apps to join the Uclick iPhone lineup).

The Uclick lineup for iPhone and iPod Touch includes apps featuring archived collections from hit GoComics titles such as Pibgorn, Basic Instructions and We the Robots, as well as the new Uclick GoComics Web app, which allows users to read recent installments of all of their favorite GoComics strips, panels and editorial cartoons. We also have a large collection of comic books, graphic novels and manga specially formatted for panel-to-panel presentation on the multi-touch screens of the Apple devices.

If you own an iPhone or iPod Touch, be sure to check out the entire Uclick lineup - go to Uclick.com on the built-in Safari browser, or visit the App Store on iTunes.

Post-SDCC Wrap

San Diego Comic-Con International 2008 has wrapped, and it was another fantastic convention for GoComics. We had all kinds of fun, whether it was demonstrating comics on mobile phones in our partner booths, giving away free kajeet phones from our own booth, or just walking the floor and meeting fans. To those who stopped by our booth, we enjoyed meeting you and we thank you for your support!

We hosted our 4th mobile comics panel, and once again we came away with a great feeling of excitement over the future of comics on mobile phones. Thanks to all of those who attended the panel and especially to those who contributed to the discussion.

SDCC was also an opportunity to hang out with our partners, folks whose work you've seen or will soon see on the GoComics mobile comic book reader. Among them, comics legend Stan Lee, whose all-new Stripperella comic book series is being developed exclusively for mobile release through GoComics. Below, Lee shares a photo-op with uclick/GoComics CEO Doug Edwards (left) and Vice President of Product Development Jeff Webber (right).

Just in case you weren't able to attend SDCC, here's a photo of the GoComics booth so you can feel like you were there. Pictured are GoComics Producer Shena Wolf and Creative Director Pete Maresca. You may recognize Pete's name from his gigantic, Eisner award-winning labor of love, Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays. The just-released (and slightly more massive) follow-up, Little Nemo in Slumberland: Many More Splendid Sundays, is on display just behind Pete's elbow. Both tomes are available through Sunday Press Books.

Hey, check out this Flickr photo series from TMNT25. Plenty of Comic-Con action featuring the TMNT Street Team. The Turtles are, of course, big stars on the GoComics mobile comic book reader. And look! Who's that, riding around the Gaslamp in a TMNT-themed pedicab? Once again it's Pete Maresca, maker of giant Winsor McCay books. This time he's accompanied by GoComics' Mobile Product Development Manager Harold Sipe, author of the hit Image Comics series Screamland!

One last photo, this time from the Image Comics booth, where Screamland scribe Harold Sipe and artist Hector Casanova signed copies of everyone's favorite tale of washed-up Hollywood monster-flick stars who band together for one last hurrah on the silver screen. All right, I'll stop plugging Screamland now. Wait - did I mention Screamland will be available in a trade paperback collection on Oct. 29 at fine comic retailers near you? Okay, now I'm done.

From Doug, Jeff, Shena, Pete, Harold and the rest of the GoComics team, thanks again to all of the GoComics fans who made it out to this year's San Diego Comic-Con. We hope to see you all again next year!

GoComics Hits Comic-Con 2008!

GoComics will be everywhere at this year’s San Diego International Comic-Con, offering the best comics everywhere, mobile and online:

• Thursday, July 24^th – Sunday, July 27^th: Catch presentations all weekend long at the GoComics booth, #1217.
• Thursday, July 24^th, 4:30pm (Room 30AB): GoComics will host a panel on the state of mobile comics, featuring creative and business leaders in the industry. There will be presentations of the new mobile comics reader, bringing a true comics experience to the hand-held screen, as well as demos of our online comics reader and a preview of the reader for the new iPhone. We'll also introduce new content from our partners: Stan Lee, TOKYOPOP, Virgin Comics, IDW, Devil’s Due, Papercutz, TMNT and more.
• And finally — get this— FREE KAJEET PHONES with $20 in credits will be awarded at the GoComics booth, the panel discussion and at two of our partner booth locations: Virgin Comics and IDW. Come see the coolest way to get your favorite manga and comics - plus, EVERY DAY you’ll have a chance to win your own FREE kajeet phone!

For more information on our mobile comic books, visit www.gocomics.com/comicbooks and enter your phone number to get started!

Guess Who's Coming to Comic-Con?

We are just days away from this year's International Comic-Con conference in San Diego, the widely popular comic book convention.  With approximately 125,000 fans expected to walk thru the doors of the San Diego Convention Center, this conference features some of the biggest names in comics and pop culture (see list).  Our bags are packed and we can't wait to be a part of this great event.

On Thursday, July 26th, GoComics will be presenting a panel of creative professionals to discuss how mobile comics and animation fit into the multiple-media delivery of popular entertainment (click here for details). Come and meet some of the producers and creators who are making this happen.  Participants include Jeff Webber, uclick/GoComics content director; Jeremy Ross, TOKYOPOP director, new content development; Richard Starkings, Active Images editor/designer, creator of Elephantmen; and Steven Calcote, Menfond Electronic Art producer/animator. Room 2 / Categories:  Comic Books | Webcomics

We will also be giving demonstrations and presentations all weekend at the TOKYOPOP booth.  Look for photos and posts from the conference floor--See you there!

Photos from Comic Con Thursday!

The first one's our booth during setup, the second is Caveman Robot (our neighbor), the third is not nearly as representative of the lines outside as it should have been (they were long), the fourth is our mobile panel and the last is a photo of a couple of Tusken Raiders.

Now, tired from walking, demo-ing phones and food poisoning (whee!), I sleep.

Preview Night, Thursday morning

I haven't managed to get internet set up in my hotel room (yes, it is very easy, what can I say?  Late nights, too many blue lagoons, the rush of convention center madness...I'll do it today and upload pictures this evening.  I swear).

Last night was Preview Night, and there was a surprisingly large crowd.  It's bigger than I remember it being last year, and our booth is really cool.  We have some books on display, apparently our calendar division will be doing the "Snakes on a Plane" calendar for 2007 (OMG!  SOAP!) and our bookmarks turned out really well. 

So far, I have seen the Burger King Jedi, a woman dressed as a Twi'leck (sp? the blue/green dancer lady from "Return of the Jedi"), a snow trooper, a clone trooper, an excellent Luigi and Princess Peach...in some cases, I managed to get photos, but sometimes they were just too far away.  Next year, I'm going to bring a better camera.  Occasionally, my current camera (one of those tiny one-shot deals from a few years ago) think it's more important to show a blank screen with occasional static than to take pictures of the wonders here.

The Nintendo booth is huge, and equipped with a ton of DS Lites.  Actually, the gaming booths are pretty awesome, and I hope to get a chance to stop by some time this weekend.  The dude from that VH1 show "Can't Get a Date?  Yes you can..." is wandering around.  I think he works for one of the RPG publishers (the one who always wore sunglasses and had two pairs of pants or something?  can't remember the name, but it *must* be him).  The TOKYOPOP booth looks really good, and I'll be doing my first presentation today at 4.  I'm a little nervous, but I think it'll be fine.

We're in booth 1220, across from the Caveman Robot booth (it's very awesome, and babies seem to love Caveman Robot), right down the lane from Penny Arcade and Dumbrella.