Category Archives: Highlights

The Adventures of Simon Pegg featured on the Android Market

By admin | Published: February 9, 2011

The Adventures of Simon Pegg is currently being featured in the Android Market. The app is the comic book tie-in of actor Simon Pegg’s auto-biography, Nerd Do Well. While the Android version is only available in the UK, the iPhone/iPad is available worldwide. This marks the third time that an Android app developed by Robot [...]

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Robot Media wins Digital Innovation Award at Digital Book World New York

By admin | Published: January 25, 2011

Robot Media was awarded yesterday the Digital Innovation Award at Digital World Book New York for mobile app Robot 13. Robot Media -through its comic book branch Robot Comics- was the only European company in competition and the only company nominated twice at the first edition of the Digital Book World Publishing Innovation Award. Robot [...]

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ARA Mirades: a photo gallery app for iPad

By admin | Published: December 6, 2010

ARA (“now” in Catalan) is a multi-platform Catalan newspaper that launched on November 28th 2010. As part of their launch, Robot Media created the ARA Mirades app for iPad, a photo gallery showcasing the most significant pictures of the day with commentary. Users can also browse the backlog of pictures, which can be saved as favorites [...]

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The Adventures of Simon Pegg announced

By admin | Published: November 18, 2010

The Adventures of Simon Pegg is an iPhone/Android/iPad app produced by Cornerstone at the Random House Group and developed Robot Media, based on an original graphic novel written by actor Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead, Star Trek) and illustrated by Gaz Roberts and Blend. The multi-platform app contains 68 page mobile comic book and is packed [...]

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Robot Media nominated as Best Mobile Startup 2010 for TechCrunch’s The Europas

By admin | Published: October 21, 2010

Robot Media has been nominated as Best Mobile Startup 2010 for TechCrunch‘s The Europas, the awards for European tech companies. The Europas will be held on November 19 in London and the first round of voting is now open. You can vote for Robot Media here.

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Children’s Bible for iPad

By admin | Published: September 28, 2010

The iPhone best-seller has arrived to iPad worldwide. Produced by BCNmultimedia and developed by Robot Media, Children’s Bible for iPad offers parents and educators the opportunity to introduce the Bible to children through an interactive comic book tailored for the iPad’s high screen resolution. Children’s Bible is available in 7 languages and also for iPhone, [...]

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First comic app featured in the Android Market

By admin | Published: July 26, 2010

An app released by Robot Comics, the comics branch of Robot Media, has become the first comic app featured in the Android Market. The app features Robot 13, a comic by Thomas Hall & Daniel Bradford, and combines transition effects with vibration to create an unique reading experience. After being featured Robot 13 was downloaded [...]

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Robot Comics inaugurates AppsLib’s “Books & Comics” category with 40 free apps

By admin | Published: May 21, 2010

Over 40 free comics are offered to users of the ARCHOS 5 internet tablet to inaugurate the Books & Comics category in AppsLib, the Android application marketplace for Archos devices. The offering includes the first issue of all Robot Comics series and ongoings, and also complete stories and one-shots. These comics will span a variety [...]

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Droid Comic Viewer

By admin | Published: March 21, 2010

Droid Comic Viewer is the leading comics and manga reader app for Android devices. Users can view their favorite comics using a fully customizable interface that also offers social network integration. It is widely used in Android mobiles and also in Android tablets such as the Archos 5 Internet Tablet, pictured above. Art from Erfworld [...]

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A new way to read comics

By admin | Published: March 20, 2010

Our mobile comics are much more than sequential art. Some use animation and sound for key scenes. Others apply different transition effects to convey more information, such as the passage of time. When we want to show images whose energy can’t be contained in a small screens, we use variations of the Ken Burns effect. [...]

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