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Broken Frontier Launches The Frontiersman, the First Mobile Comics Magazine

By | April 26th, 2010
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At it’s core, Apple’s iPad seeks to push the digital distribution medium forward. With companies like Marvel eagerly putting out digital comic books for you in Comixology’s Marvel app, as well as the advent of things like iBooks (where you can download full novels to your digital reader), it seems easier than ever to have whatever you’d like literally at the tip of your fingers.

Now take a look at the Frontiersman, the first digital comic book magazine designed specifically for the mobile device like the iPad. The Frontiersman, put together by Broken Frontier, will debut Tuesday, May 4th with it’s first issue, featuring interviews with Jonathan Hickman as well as Mark Millar and John Romita Jr. The e-zine is designed specifically to go with the iPad and it’s new digital reader format, and will be available free of charge via iTunes.

Don’t have an iPad? Don’t fret. You will also be able to download a free copy of the magazine in a PDF via the website.

It’s an interesting change to the way things are being presented to us, but it should be interesting to behold. It’s also free, so you have absolutely nothing to lose. Definitely check it out with or without your iPad next month, and click behind the jump for the full press release.

Premier comic book news site Broken Frontier proudly unveils The Frontiersman, the world’s first digital comics magazine for mobile devices. The magazine makes its debut on iPad with The Frontiersman #1, with new issues to be released weekly on Tuesdays as of May 4, 2010.

“We’re thrilled to offer comic fans a new way to experience the richness and diversity of the comics industry,” Broken Frontier’s Editor in Chief Frederik Hautain says. The Frontiersman will act as a digital companion to the main Broken Frontier website, where readers will still find their daily dose of comics news, reviews, blogging, previews and columns.

“BF isn’t going anywhere, on the contrary,” Hautain clarifies. “What we’re doing, is presenting our more in-depth articles and interviews in a format that allows you to enjoy them at your leisure without getting lost amid the boatloads of content that the web throws at you every day.”

The Frontiersman magazine app is available for free via iTunes. While the magazine can be optimally enjoyed on iPad, it can also be downloaded free of charge in PDF on the Broken Frontier website. The Frontiersman is developed in association with Netlash, the web development partner of Broken Frontier.

The first issue features interviews with Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr. on Kick-Ass, Paul Gravett on Tove Jansson’s Moomin exhibition, and Jonathan Hickman on S.H.I.E.L.D., its history and political relevance. The Frontiersman #1 also dives into the storied history of The Green Hornet and spotlights this week’s top comics.

The Frontiersman, Exploring the Comics Universe. Go mobile and download The Frontiersman #1 right now on iTunes or as a PDF at www.brokenfrontier.com.

About Broken Frontier

Established in the fall of 2002, Broken Frontier quickly built a solid reputation for its extensive, unique, and critical coverage of the comic book industry. Coverage includes headline news, interviews, articles, reviews, columns and blogs. The website covers every corner of the comic book industry, from mainstream to independent publishers, from print and digital publications to film and tv adaptations. Additionally, Broken Frontier is the publisher of the first digital comic book magazine for mobile devices, The Frontiersman.

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Once upon a time, Matthew Meylikhov became the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Multiversity Comics, where he was known for his beard and fondness for cats. Then he became only one of those things. Now, if you listen really carefully at night, you may still hear from whispers on the wind a faint voice saying, "X-Men Origins: Wolverine is not as bad as everyone says it issss."

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