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Amanda Hocking is a digital publishing phenomenon: She self-published her first nine books as e-books and sold over a million copies, making her a millionaire twice over. Conventional publishers took notice, and Hocking’s paranormal romance novels are now published by St. Martin’s Press. Her prose novels, that is: Hocking’s newest work is a graphic novel, titled The Hollows: A Hollowland Graphic Novel, and it is being published as a digital-first comic by Dynamite. The graphic novel is based on Hocking’s The Hollowland, the story of a girl looking for her lost brother during a zombie apocalypse. In an interview with Calvin Reid of Publishers Weekly, Dynamite publisher Nick Barrucci said that the book would be released as ten chapters, then collected late this year or early next year as a print graphic novel. The chapters will not be sold as individual issues. The first issue of The Hollows is free, so I went ahead and downloaded it. It’s basically setup, introducing us to the characters in the story: The girl and her brother; a rock star whose band disintegrates after the zombie plague strikes during one of their concerts; a doctor who feels he is ethically bound to treat those afflicted by the plague even though the government has declared that infected people are legally dead. Frankly, zombies are pretty passe these days, but Hocking has managed to stock her story with characters that are solid enough to be interesting anyway. Steve Uy’s art serves the story well; it’s black and white with a subtle manga feel. The second issue was also released this week, and subsequent issues will come out every two weeks and will be priced at $1.99. While I bought it on comiXology, the book is also available on Kindle, and on Dark Horse Digital. Amanda Hocking Publishes Graphic Novel as Digital-First Comic is a post from: E-Reader News |
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Amanda Hocking Publishes Graphic Novel as Digital-First Comic
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