Since IN MAPS & LEGENDS launched as a digital comic, Mike and I have tried to help get the word out about what other comics are available for digital download onto your phone, tablet, ereader, or desktop. Each month we’ve highlighted a few titles, from mainstream comics to indie to manga, and we’ve decided to expand on that! We’ll list on which devices the titles are available, the creators, the price per issue, and anything else useful you may want to know before buying. Check out previous recommendations too.

We hope that these spotlight posts will help you discover a few new favorite books each month.

reMIND
Creator: Jason Brubaker
Platforms: iOS (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch), Android (tablets + phones), Web
Price: $1.99/chapter
Currently Available: Chapter 1
Release Schedule: biweekly
Description: Jason Brubaker won a Xeric grant for his ongoing webcomic, reMIND, then launched a successful Kickstarter campaign, and released the first volume of his comic in print. Now, he’s bringing the series to digital. Why buy a digital comic of a webcomic you can already read free on his site? The new, Graphicly-powered chapters come with a number of extras: you can cycle between sketch and finished art, and there are a number of fixes and entirely new pages that went into the print edition, and are now included in this digital release. His art is a gorgeous combination of layered textures and paint, and it looks great on a tablet screen.

Templar, Arizona
Creator: Spike
Platforms: iOS (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch), Android (tablets + phones), Web
Price: $1.99/volume
Currently Available: Volumes 1-3
Release Schedule: Unknown
Description: With a diverse cast and a city so fleshed out that it’s a character in its own right, TEMPLAR, ARIZONA is a long-running, award-winning webcomic by artist/writer Charlie “Spike” Trotman. She has now brought her series to the digital realm, with the first three volumes (between 85 and 130 pages) just $1.99 each.

Dicebox
Creator: Jenn Manley Lee
Platforms: PDF
Price: $5
Currently Available: Book 1 (of 4)
Release Schedule: Unknown
Description: The first book of the lovely webcomic DICEBOX is now out in print and digital form. 324 pages of space wandering that should appeal to any fan of FIREFLY. From the author: “An optimized PDF of the first Book of Dicebox, complete with hyperlinks and formatted specifically for digital viewing. File size is 80MB.”

Have you read any of this month’s recommendations? Know any great titles that we should feature in upcoming months? Let us know below!

A complete listing of all the digital comics recommended on our site.

Since IN MAPS & LEGENDS launched as a digital comic, Mike and I have tried to help get the word out about what other comics are available for digital download onto your phone, tablet, ereader, or desktop. Each month we’ve highlighted a few titles, from mainstream comics to indie to manga, and we’ve decided to expand on that! We’ll list on which devices the titles are available, the creators, the price per issue, and anything else useful you may want to know before buying. Check out previous recommendations too.

We hope that these spotlight posts will help you discover a few new favorite books each month.

Touch Sensitive
Creator: Chris Ware
Platforms: iOS (iPad), Web
Price: $.99
Currently Available: Short story
Release Schedule: Complete
Description: Chris Ware has long been known for his meticulously drawn comics and design work, winning over a dozen Eisner awards for his stories. Now, he has brought his unique panel layouts and detail to the iPad, in this short story released through the McSweeney’s app. Exclusive to the iPad, TOUCH SENSITIVE is only $0.99. Ware’s preference and skill for the layout of a printed page shows, however, with a few unclear transitions that leave you guessing whether the screen requires a tap or swipe to go on. The digital format does allow for fades and even a few instances of animation, however– something that ensures that the reading experience can’t be replicated on paper.

Lovelace & Babbage
Creators: Syndney Padua
Platforms: iPad
Price: $2.99/issue, free intro comic
Currently Available: Two stories
Release Schedule: Unknown
Description: This independent comic app does it all right. Filled to the brim with witty extras, sketches, and footnotes, this app adaptation of 2DGoggles, a webcomic focused on the not-so-real adventures of historical mathematicians Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, had Babbage’s 1830 computer designs rocketed England into the steampunk era. Vertically, the comic is a comfortable read, but held horizontally, all of the creator’s notes are revealed, giving you extra insight into the true story behind the fantastical events of the comic.

Have you read any of this month’s recommendations? Know any great titles that we should feature in upcoming months? Let us know below!

Now available: the Collected Edition of the entire nine-issue story arc of the digital comic IN MAPS & LEGENDS!

Our monthly highlight of comics available for digital download to your phone, tablet, ereader, & desktop.

Formatting comics and image-heavy eBooks can be a confusing and sometimes frustrating task. Our new eBook just might help!

We’d like to announce the release of the Collected Edition of our digital comic IN MAPS & LEGENDS! Consider this the digital version of the trade paperback of all nine issues–over 180 full-color comic pages.

Here’s more information about the complete series:

Kaitlin Grayson is an artist who finds herself compelled to carve a map that covers all four walls of her window-less spare room. One cold night, a disheveled man named Bartamus bursts into her apartment, claiming that only she can save his dying world.

For Kait, things like this happen in the books she illustrates so often, she feels like she knows what will happen next. But she couldn’t be more wrong when she and her friends step through her map and charge headlong into another world.

In Maps & Legends, a former Zuda comic, is a world-spanning fantasy comic mixed with science fiction and steampunk. This special edition collects all nine issues of this digital-only, full-color miniseries.

Preview the opening pages of the Collected Edition, courtesy of Graphicly:

You can buy the Collected Edition from the following online distributors:

• Comixology (iPhone/iPad, Android Phone, Online Reader)
• Graphic.ly (iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone, Desktop Application, Web Reader)
• Amazon (Kindle)
• Barnes & Noble (Nook App)
• Apple’s iBookstore (ePub)
• Also available in German (ePub)
• The Illustrated Section (PDF Download)
• DriveThruComics (PDF Download)
• Also available in German (PDF Download)
• MyDigitalComics (PDF, CBZ, Online Reader)

NOTE: If you have a Kindle or a Nook, we’ve split the collection into two bundles: issues 1-4 and issues 5-9, in German as well as English!

Enjoy, and as always, thanks for reading!

Now that we’ve completed our first 9-issue storyline (whew!), we wanted to offer readers who picked up our Combo eBook of issues 1-4 a digital bundle of issues 5 through 9 of IN MAPS & LEGENDS.

So instead of paying almost $5 and downloading issues 5-9 individually, you can buy this second combo pack and get those five issues as a short graphic novel. Best thing about it is that you save some money buying those issues as a bundle.

This special version is for just the following platforms and languages:

• Kindle (English)
• Kindle (German)
• Nook (English)
• Nook (German)

So check it out if you haven’t already read those first issues (and remember, the Kindle and Nook also have free readers you can download for your computer or laptop, and they all display in COLOR).

And, as always, thanks for reading!

This is it! We’re happy to announce the release of the Final Issue of our digital comic IN MAPS & LEGENDS!

In this issue, Kait faces down the trio of impossible creatures who have world domination on their agenda, taking her and her friends to the brink of death and back again, and the mystery of the maps are explained, in his own enigmatic way, by the haggard stranger known only as Bartamus.

Here’s the official synopsis:

Thanks to her grandfather, Kaitlin Grayson knows maps and legends. But Kait never would’ve dreamed that she would one day attempt to save two worlds at the same time, becoming both a map and a legend in the explosive conclusion to this storyline.

Preview the opening pages of issue 9, courtesy of Graphicly:

You can buy Issue 9 from the following online distributors:

• Comixology (iPhone/iPad, Android Phone, Online Reader)
• Graphic.ly (iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone, Desktop Application, Web Reader)
• Amazon.com’s US Kindle Store (Kindle)
• Amazon.co.uk’s UK Kindle Store (Kindle)
• Amazon.de’s German Kindle Store (Kindle)
• Barnes & Noble (Nook)
• Google eBooks (ePub-coming soon)
• Apple’s iBookstore (ePub)
• The Illustrated Section (PDF Download)
• DriveThruComics (PDF Download)
• MyDigitalComics (PDF, CBZ, Online Reader)
• Oxicomics (PDF)
• XinXii (PDF Download)

We also have German versions! Check them out here:

• Amazon’s US Kindle Store – German version (Kindle)
• Amazon’s UK Kindle Store – German version (Kindle)
• Amazon’s German Kindle Store – German version (Kindle)
• Barnes & Noble – German version (Nook)
• Apple’s iBookstore (ePub)
• DriveThruComics – German version (PDF Download)
• XinXii (PDF Download)

Enjoy, and as always, thanks for reading!