From the New York Times…

September 25, 2006

For One Publisher, the Life of Every Comic Book Starts on the Web

By MICHEL MARRIOTT

For generations of Americans, comic books were the first real page-turners. But the audience for their digital counterpart, called Webcomics, has for the most part been limited to a niche group of comic book creators and their most ardent followers.

Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, the chairman of Platinum Studios, a privately held California entertainment company that develops and adapts comics for other media, wants to change that.

Platinum, a relative newcomer in an industry dominated by Marvel and DC Comics, took the first step last month when it bought DrunkDuck.com, a popular Webcomics site, for an undisclosed sum. It is opening the revamped site today at the same Web address as DrunkDuck 2.0.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/25/technology/25comics.html?_r=2&oref=login&oref=slogin

We’ll Get Dylan on The Gigcast Asap.

JT

Scott Edits:

Some interesting links for those of you who are internet blind

• The Beat (who I had not heard of before but I doubt they have heard of the gigcast either) has a good discussion going on about Platnium and this new move. Sort of a guessing if it will / won’t it discussion.
• Talk about comics does a bit of well wishing.
• Cowboys and Aliens now sports a Drunk Duck logo.
• Last but never least Drunk Ducks own Dylan speaks up.

Lastly I want to add my congratulations to Dylan and Platnium. I think this is a cool move. I also want to congratulate all you DD members who made Drunk Duck what it is. Without you Drunk Duck would have faded but you guys keep the fires hot.

One late entry PVPonline has a thought on the sale.

and DJ Coffman will likely be seeing his Hero By Night comic hosted on Drunk Duck.

Posted by jtpokie on Monday, September 25th, 2006 at 1:12 am.