techradar.com - 8/27/2008
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In what is the first case of its type, a comic book app made especially for the iPhone and iPod touch, and sold through the Apple iTunes store, has been banned due to its content. The comic, titled Murderdrome , was created by England-based Al Ewing and Belfast-based Paul J Holden of Infurious Comics and has now been put online by the duo so that their fans don't miss out on the pair's latest ...
blogoscoped.com - 9/1/2008
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blogoscoped.com —
Google Chrome is Google's browser project ; this
comic book by Google, drawn by Scott McCloud, is...
scanned here and shown under its Creative Commons license..
(more)
Google on Google Chrome - comic book
books.google.com - 9/1/2008
blog.wired.com - 8/26/2008
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blog.wired.com —
Is the iPhone a good platform for reading
comic books? Probably not, but that isn't stopping developers...
from having a crack at bringing the funnies to your pocket. The problem is that the iPhone's screen, while great for reading plain-text ebooks, ...
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Comic Books on the iPhone? No Thanks
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Apple Bans Murderdrome Comic Book from iTunes
Wired: Gadget Lab —
... applications? If the guys had released this as a free PDF podcast, all would have been fine. But by making it an application, Apple feels it can step in and either be an arbiter of taste or just nanny its users, neither of which is a good thing.
Still, if you want to check out the comic, a rather violent story called Murderdrome, you can grab it in jpeg form from the artists' site, Infurious Comics.
Murderdrome - KILLER APP [Infurious. Thanks, Paul!]
'Digital comic' iPhone app banned [Tech Radar]
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Violent Comic iPhone App Murderdrome Banned From App Store, Authors Want a Rating System [IPhone Apps]
Gizmodo —
... on Breakout with an "ok for all ages" badge, as App devlopers continue to evolve what the definition of an iPhone app is (here, an 8-panel, episodic comic), for Apple to effectively censor content with their shadowy app approval process is not going to make a lot of people happy. Gadget Lab makes a great point that there are a ton of adult themed podcast floating around in the iTunes store, also free—why can't an iPhone comic be a bit more risque? [Infurious Comics, Tech Radar, Gadget Lab via CNET]
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