Dark Horse’s Stranger Things and Select Hits From Today’s Top Indie Publishers Headline Robust Offering of Titles Reimagined, For The First Time Ever, as Vertical Scroll Episodes for Mobile Devices – The Comic Format That Has Become A True Sensation With The Next Generation Of Graphic Fiction Fans
GlobalComix’s Vertical Originals Also Features Top Titles from AWA, TKO, TopCow, Vault Comics, Bad Egg, & Humanoids, with More to Come!
September 10, 2024 – GlobalComix, the digital entertainment trailblazer reshaping the landscape of graphic fiction creation, distribution, and consumption on a global scale, today announced a huge expansion to its title library with the launch of GC Vertical Originals, an initiative to translate traditional comic books to the mobile-friendly vertical episode format popular with the next generation of graphic fiction fans, and the addition of legendary comic book publisher Dark Horse Comics’ greatest hits catalog.
Available now, the first wave of GC Vertical Originals is led by Stranger Things, based on the beloved Netflix series. The Stranger Things vertical stories will be presented in both a traditional and a special “Upside Down” scrolling experience. Additional vertical titles debuting today include Marjorie Finnegan: Temporal Criminal and Casual Fling from AWA, The Darkness from Top Cow / Image, Humanoids’ Urban Legendz, TKO’s The Pull, The Banks, and Lonesome Days, Savage Nights, Vault Comics’ Heavy, and Bad Egg’s GODSLAP.
As GlobalComix grows its GC Vertical Originals library, the platform is working closely with publishers to help reimagine some of the biggest and boldest groundbreaking series as mobile-optimized vertical scroll episodes – the comic format that has become a true sensation with the next generation of graphic fiction fans. GlobalComix will debut new vertical scroll adaptations of popular series every week, with top titles from Dark Horse, Vault, AWA, Top Cow, TKO, ABLAZE and more including Dying Insidefrom Vault Comics, Year Zero from AWA, and The Might Barbarians from TopCow set to launch in the coming months.
Through its larger, landmark partnership with Dark Horse, GlobalComix is also bringing a treasure trove of nearly 150 series and 700 books from the publisher’s renowned comic vault to its digital comics platform which is seeing explosive growth. In addition to Stranger Things, fans can access digital comic editions of landmark series from renowned franchises such as The Witcher, Hellboy, and many more. Dark Horse joins a growing list of top publishers, including Image, Boom, Vault, and more who are gravitating to GlobalComix and its strong value proposition and success in helping publishers greatly increase their digital comic impact in reaching current and next-generation fans.
“As the graphic fiction industry continues to evolve, GC Vertical Originals is something our team is incredibly passionate about sharing with the world as we look to bring the best selection of comics to readers around the world. We take painstaking care in translating series into the vertical scroll format to ensure that every panel retains its original intention, now in the more mobile-friendly reading format that has captured the next generation of comic readers,” said Christopher Carter, CEO of GlobalComix. “We are also thrilled to welcome Dark Horse to GlobalComix. Dark Horse has an unmatched roster of incredible series, including new stories that expand the world’s most buzzed-about franchises, and we are thrilled to have the opportunity to both bring some of their biggest titles to our platform and to create with them all-new ways to experience their iconic characters and stories through exclusive vertical scroll formats.”
“Webcomics and mobile-friendly platforms are the next frontier, bringing comics to fans wherever they are, whenever they choose,” said Mike Richardson, Dark Horse CEO and Founder. “Our partnership with GlobalComix to bring Dark Horse titles and licensed properties to GC Vertical Originals is another step in our effort to reach comic readers in new and exciting ways.”
Thousands of incredible titles are available in the GlobalComix App for iOS and Google Play and on the web.
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