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Happy 25th Anniversary, ComicMix comics!

Happy 25th Anniversary, ComicMix comics!

Twenty-five months ago today, ComicMix debuted our first new comics online, the return of GrimJack in the tale of the Manx Cat, a series that is now available in print from our friends at IDW. It was followed within the first week by EZ Street, Black Ice, Munden’s Bar, The Adventures of Simone & Ajax, and Fishhead.

*Okay, we’ve been so crazy busy around here that we completely skated past our two year anniversary at the beginning of last month. But now we get to have a 25th anniversary!**

**Look, if X-Factor can have a 50th anniversary issue this month and a 200th anniversary issue next month, we can have a 25th anniversary today. So there.

Black Ice: See Spot!

Black Ice: See Spot!

In today’s brand-new episode of Black Ice, by Mike Baron and Lee Oaks, Neil learns a lot from his new friend, Spot.  Spot can’t talk, but there’s a lot it can do.  Will Neil be able to use this knowledge?  Will he be able to use it in time?

Credits: Mike Baron (Writer), Lee Oaks (Artist), Bob Pinaha (Letterer), Matt Webb (Colorist), Mike Gold (Editor)

Black Ice: Boss-Man!

Black Ice: Boss-Man!

In today’s brand-new episode of Black Ice, by Mike Baron and Lee Oakes, Captain Neil selects a new title, and welcomes new allies.  Can this possibly be a good idea?  And what’s going on in the volcano?

 

Credits: Mike Baron (Writer), Lee Oaks (Artist), Bob Pinaha (Letterer), Matt Webb (Colorist), Mike Gold (Editor)

 

Black Ice: Protein-Laced Zyp

Black Ice: Protein-Laced Zyp

In today’s brand-new episode of Black Ice, by Mike Baron and Lee Oaks, the Prince takes the Helmet to which he believes he was born. The King and Queen learn of their son’s alleged death.  And, oh yeah, there’s dragons.

 

Credits: Mike Baron (Writer), Lee Oaks (Artist), Bob Pinaha (Letterer), Matt Webb (Colorist), Mike Gold (Editor)

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Black Ice: In the Sky!

Black Ice: In the Sky!

In today’s brand-new episode of Black Ice, by Mike Baron and Nick Runge, Neil’s motorbike is gone, along with Prince Crom. With it, our heroes may have lost the war.

Can Neil show them how to make another bike? Does Mark Twain hold the answer?

Credits:Bob Pinaha (Letterer), Matt Webb (Colorist), Mike Baron (Writer), Mike Gold (Editor), Nick Runge (Artist)

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Black Ice: The Return!

Black Ice: The Return!

Black Ice, the action-adventure fantasy by Mike Baron and Nick Runge, returns today with a brand-new chapter.

Neil Kofsky drove his motorbike through an inter-dimensional portal and right onto a battleship that flies through the air.  After dueling with a Prince with an attitude, Neil finds himself (and everyone else on board) attacked by an enemy he doesn’t know and doesn’t understand.  And now ….

Credits: Bob Pinaha (Letterer), Matt Webb (Colorist), Mike Baron (Writer), Mike Gold (Editor), Nick Runge (Artist)

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New at ComicMix: Comic Reader Updates and More!

New at ComicMix: Comic Reader Updates and More!

If you’re a faithful reader of ComicMix (and we hope you are), you may have noticed that we didn’t post the new episode of Simone & Ajax: The Case of the Maltese Duck. It’s not because anything bad happened to our favorite dinosaur and his cute friend Simone. We’re giving Andrew and Jason a bit of a breather.

However, we have just installed some new bells and whistles to the site that will make it more fun for you to use.

You know how they made a hit television show out of the premise that you want to go to a place where everybody knows your name? Well, ComicMix now remembers how you like to read your comics. When you set a preference for single pages or double-page spreads or for a certain degree of magnification, that’s how the settings will stay, until you choose to change them again. And you can bookmark individual pages – if you want to check out page 3 of Simone & Ajax: The Case of the Maltese Duck, you can now do so directly.

You say you want more? Well, coming up in the near future we’ve got a couple of massive additions to our site – a world of entirely new features – and we’ll be bringing back Munden’s Bar and Black Ice, as well as starting up Giordano/McLaughlin/Holroyd’s White Viper and Trevor Von Eeden’s The Original Johnson. Plus new outings from John Ostrander and Ian Gibson and Joanna Estep… and more. A whole LOT more.

Stay tuned.

Wanted: your feedback!

Wanted: your feedback!

It’s been four weeks since the rollout of ComicMix: Phase II. You’ve seen the first four installments of GrimJack, EZ Street, Black Ice, Munden’s Bar, Simone & Ajax, and Fishhead. You’ve used our comic reader, you’ve listened to the podcasts, you’ve played with the site, and we’ve still had the same great columnists.

In that time, our site traffic has spiked and the number of page views have grown by leaps and bounds.

But we’re still not satisfied. So we’re asking you: What do you think?

How can we improve ComicMix? What would you like to see? What have you seen enough of?

Consider this an open thread. Feel free to tell us what’s not working for you, what we should add to the site, what we should improve. Do you want more columnists? More news? More previews from other publishers? More comics?

Inquiring minds want to know. And while we try to read what other folks are saying elsewhere on the net, we don’t catch everything. So please, take the time and tell us here, so that we can continue to make this a better site for you.

BIG BROADCAST: A Day Without Hoosiers Is Like…

BIG BROADCAST: A Day Without Hoosiers Is Like…

Ever think that there are at least parts of your life that would make an interesting comic? Artist Kurt Dinse did and from there he added a little drama and created One Year In Indiana, an intriguing indy comic  spotlighted today on THE BIG BROADCAST!

Plus: What is the deal on all those Marvel Zombie variants? How about Princess Bride coming to the game market? The new Tintin trilogy? And today, we fondly remember Mrs. Hart.

Let us entertain you while you read the all-new, all-free Black Ice… PRESS THE BUTTON!

Everything old is new again

Everything old is new again

Only two days and counting until the next exciting phase of ComicMix debuts!  Lots of familiar names with brand-new comics work, a couple of whom also double as regular columnists.  Speaking of which, here are our contributions from the last week of September:

Mellifluous Mike Raub is smoothly into triple digits with his Big ComicMix Broadcasts; here’s what he’s had for us this past week:

And Media Queen Martha Thomases has been previewing our comics offerings for the last couple of weeks; here’s a compendium to get you up to speed:

Hope you’ll join us this coming Tuesday as we debut our free comics content by some of the industry’s greatest luminaries!  Did I mention free yet?