GlobalComix unveils new features for browser-based comics reader

Just in time, it appears, GlobalComix has unveiled a refresh to their internet browser platform for studying digital comics, and so they declare it “kicks competition to the crypt.”

In case you haven’t been following alongside this can be a not very refined allusion to the tip of the Comixology standalone app, as we reported final week. It additionally refers to The Walking Dead compendiums, which now you can learn in digital format on GlobalComix. A multi-use metaphor then.

The new format gives a customizable studying expertise accessible in vertical scroll, single or double web page layouts. Here’s a video explaining extra:

Move up and down pages and panels with ease. Use the monitoring mousepad and level to both facet of the web page; it transforms into a novel arrow on both facet to maneuver pages backwards and forwards! Click within the heart. On the highest left nook, the title, creator(s), and style. The backside nook QR code results in the app. At the middle is the web page quantity, with the complete web page depend of the comedian in view as effectively. The high proper nook reveals a instrument icon to change web page view, with collated sequence pages to open a preview within the sidebar. Below are icons that function further sequence information, an choice to observe the creator and add to your digital library, together with the choices: studying, on maintain, end, learn later, re-read, add push notifications; or depart a remark! Click the underside heart (i)con to retrieve sequence information and product description in full view.

Readers can arrange their comics any manner they like, and on any machine. Best of all, by no means lose your house! Pick up the place you left off for those who nod off; monitor and set up every title by including all issues Walking Dead to your private library. Run out of Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore tales? GlobalComix gives related title strategies, so there’s no hiding from the zombies. Talk a few corpse reviver…

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The of us at GlobalComix additionally handed alongside some statistics and charts to point out their development since they launched their new app again in October.

Since launch, new consumer acquisition is up 1000%; customers following creators and publishers is 1500%; and customers including or liking comics to their library is up 3,600%.

GlobalComix provided the Beat with some charts; as with charts they’ve launched previously, there aren’t any index numbers, nevertheless, they do present vital upwards developments.

Here’s consumer development since launch, above.

And engagement – likes and including to library – development, above. Up up and away!

Indie creators importing and selling their work proceed to seek out readers on the platform. Indie manga webcomic Black Lotus lately grew to become their first sequence to get 1 million views on the platform.

Getting extra readers for extra conventional publishers is a spotlight for ‘24, we’re instructed, in addition to linking writer’s e-commerce websites to digital purchases – readers can seamlessly buy DRM free PDFs and print editions from current webstores from the new studying expertise.

And right here’s some display pictures exhibiting the new navigation features.