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Zombie Baseball Comic Sensation “Sullivan’s Sluggers” Available Now

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Jun 282012
 
Record-breaking Undead Baseball Comic To Debuts

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Baseball, Zombies, It doesn’t get any better than this.

 

Record-breaking Undead Baseball Comic Debuts

Press Release – New York, NY –Kickstarter sensation Sullivan’s Sluggers, the pending graphic novel from creators Mark Andrew Smith and James Stokoe, will debut as a series of single issues with issue #1 premiering today exclusively on comiXology — the world’s largest digital comics platform with over 75 million downloads to date. Earlier this month, Sullivan’s Sluggers took the internet by storm with a Kickstarter campaign that outperformed even the most wild expectations. Now, fans won’t have to wait one more day to experience a taste of the Sullivan’s Sluggers graphic novel with Sullivan Sluggers #1on comiXology today.

Sullivan’s Sluggers quickly became an internet phenomenon after its Kickstarter campaign surpassed its initial goal of $6,000 and almost hit $100,000 in the 30-day campaign. The graphic novel was also optioned for adaption to the silver screen before the Kickstarter campaign even ended.  Created by Mark Andrew Smith and James Stokoe, the team behind Sullivan’s Sluggers didn’t want to wait until the graphic novel was printed to get it into the hands of fans, so they approached comiXology to serialize the graphic novel over six single issues.

“We’re excited to be able to bring Sullivan’s Sluggers to comiXology before the graphic novel comes out in print,” said comiXology co-founder and CEO David Steinberger. “It was great for comiXology to be counted among the early incentives for the book’s backers during the Kickstarter campaign and now we can’t wait to let the rest of the world in on this bloody great comic.”

“ComiXology is the premier place for digital comics,” said co-creator Mark Andrew Smith. “Releasing Sullivan’s Sluggers with comiXology’s unique one-two punch reading experience of CMX-HD and in their revolutionary Guided View gives fans something different than with the print graphic novel. From shopping to reading, there just isn’t anything else out there that touches comiXology.”

Sullivan’s Sluggers tells the story of a down and out minor league baseball team and their Coach, Casey Sullivan, as they face off against a terrifying legion of undead monsters in an epic fight for survival. When America’s favorite past time becomes one team’s ultimate nightmare, hilarity, horror and one killer comic ensues.

Available across iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire, the Web and the comiXology retailer digital storefronts, Sullivan’s Sluggers #1 (of 6) is out now.

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Comic Series “American Flagg” Now Available For Digital Media

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Jun 072012
 
American-Flagg
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Press Release: comiXology -New York, New York — Dynamite Entertainment and comiXology have teamed up to release legendary comic creator Howard Chaykin’s classic American Flagg! digitally across the entire comiXology platform — including iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire and the Web. Long considered a classic, this exclusive digital release also includes a brand new forward by bestselling comic creator and novelist Warren Ellis — only available on comiXology. The forward, along with first arc of the American Flagg series marks the beginning of a new era for this groundbreaking masterpiece as it moves into the digital age.

“Bringing the work of a master creator like Howard Chaykin to the forefront of the digital realm defines what comiXology is at it’s very core” says comiXology CEO and Co-Founder David Steinberger “Being able to distribute lost classics to new readers is something we’re striving to continue as we push forward in 2012.”

Lauded for its status as a cult classic and unparalleled in it’s impact on today’s comic scene, Howard Chaykin’s American Flagg! brings it’s unique indie spirit to comiXology and is available for download as individual single issues and as a completed Graphic Novel.

“There are few great comic works as influential and well respected as Howard Chaykin’s American Flagg!  The work is, in my opinion, one of the most important works from the 1980’s.  Howard was ahead of his time with American Flagg!  He was a visionary, and Flagg!, as well as The Shadow and other works show why he is one of the most respected creators in comics.” saysDynamite President and Publisher Nick Barrucci “Offering American Flagg! digitally is ideal in bringing the classic series to a new generation of readers.  We couldn’t be more excited about having both this incredible series by Chaykin with a new forward by Ellis available digitally on comiXology.”

A monumental achievement in modern sequential art, American Flagg tells the story of Reuben Flagg and the world he inhabits following the devastating events of the Year of the Domino. In a future where planet Earth has been torn asunder by a wave of natural disasters and civilization is forced to plot a new course for itself as the United States government flees to Mars, Flagg must deal with all the remaining factions left behind.

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Sen. Franken Queries Cell Carriers Over Security

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Dec 192011
 

Krypton Radio Special ReportCarrier IQ’s Problems Not Going Away Any Time Soon

by Xavier Digiti

Washington DC – “You agreed to let us do it! ” Sprint, AT&T, HTC and Samsung all stated that when its users signed the end-user licensing agreements, the users gave them the right to use Carrier IQ to monitor app deployment, phone CPU output, connectivity metrics, and battery life. That was their response to Senator Al Franken of Minnesota’s inquiry into Carrier IQ function and role in the cell phone industry. Sen. Franken’s request was sent after Travis Eckhart, an app developer, discovered Carrier IQ installed and running in his HTC EVO. The companies also reported that the software has been in use for years.

T-Mobile and Motorola are expected to respond to Sen. Al Franken’s inquiry by December 20, 2011. They have acknowledged using the software in their devices.

According to reports, the carriers decide what data they receive from carrier IQ. An example is that the phone may transmit text-message data only when a message fails to get delivered. Some carriers collect the data on an anonymous basis, allowing the carrier to obtain the necessary data to analyze network traffic, and connectivity data without knowing who the user is. Other carrier’s however, collect enough data to relate an event to a particular user. Meaning that they know how many times the battery is changed, how many times a charger is used, or what apps are taking the majority of your battery life.

Sprint reports that by way of their “privacy policy” they have the right to collect such information to analyze software and connectivity issues. Sprint also stated that they are going to disable the Carrier IQ app from a reported 26 million active devices.

Senator Franken has this to say about the responses:

“I appreciate the responses I received, but I’m still very troubled by what’s going on,” said Sen. Franken. “People have a fundamental right to control their private information. After reading the companies’ responses, I’m still concerned that this right is not being respected. The average user of any device equipped with Carrier IQ software has no way of knowing that this software is running, what information it is getting, and who it is giving it to-and that’s a problem.  It appears that Carrier IQ has been receiving the contents of a number of text messages-even though they had told the public that they did not.  I’m also bothered by the software’s ability to capture the contents of our online searches – even when users wish to encrypt them.  So there are still many questions to be answered here and things that need to be fixed.”

Below are links to the carrier’s response, hosted on Senator Franken’s web site.  The links feature his letters to AT&T, Sprint, HTC and Samsung, and their responses:

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