Archaia Produces Original Graphic Novels for the Kindle

One thing I have noticed about comics on the Amazon Kindle is it’s honestly slim pickings. I mean you figure with a pure digital format and the success of the Amazon Kindle you would have, well more than there is honestly. There are some comics and manga out there for the Kindle but since they weren’t produced with the Kindle in mind they don’t translate so well, because of the size of the screen and how it handles gradations and blacks.

Well, Archaia Entertainment is going to start produce original graphic novels for the Kindle format, which will be available from the Kindle store. You can download and read them on your Kindle, your iPhone or you iPod Touch. They are starting with the title Tumor by from Joshua Hale Fialkov and Noel Tuazon. You can get the first chapter for free today with chapter 2 being released the week of August 3rd, and each subsequent chapter will be released every three weeks. I downloaded the first chapter myself to check it out and found it to be a good story as I would expect from Archaia, and they made good use of the real estate of the Kindle screen. It was easy to read the text, which with most comics on the Kindle is my biggest complaint.

Along with Tumor, also on the release schedule for the Kindle from Archaia Entertainment is Mr. Murder Is Dead, a black-and-white original graphic novel written by Victor Quinaz and co-published by Before the Door Pictures, the production company of actor Zachary Quinto(Sylar and Spock himself!). This title is scheduled for a spring 2010 release, and I am definitely looking forward to this one and will be picking Tumor and Mr. Murder Is Dead up from the Kindle store.

Tumor – The Trailer from Joshua Fialkov on Vimeo.