Disney Comics Coming To iPhone

(Credit: Disney Comics Worldwide Blog)

(Credit: Disney Comics Worldwide Blog)

The connection between Apple and Disney keeps appearing, the latest link coming with news the animation giant will begin selling its classic comics via the iPhone. “We expect it to become the gold standard for comics in a digital world,” a Disney executive said Wednesday.

The Digicomics will be sold through the iPhone and iPod touch, as well as other platforms in the U.S., UK and other English-speaking nations.

The Digicomics will initially offer 50 downloadable stories with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and other recognized Disney characters, according to Disney Comics Worldwide Blog. Disney will eventually sell five to 10 new Digicomics weekly. The Burbank, Calif. Disney will pull the content from a 50-year library of comics created by Walt Disney Company Italy for Italian newspapers and magazines, according to the site.

The Digicomics are just the latest venture with Apple. In October, Disney reached out to Apple for help revamping their retail locations. Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs became a Disney board member after the company purchased the Pixar animation studios Jobs helped create.

[Via Bloomberg and Disney Comics Worldwide Blog]

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  • MBar

    The project of this application was started by Disney Italy (in fact, the screenshot is in Italian), where most of the print production for Disney is produced: although not known, all the artists in charge of Disney comics are Italian, and in Milan, the Disney school forges lots of them. I don’t think that for this app there has been much involvement from Apple, apart from providing the best mobile platform ever.

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