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ROK Comics enables creators and publishers to create comics for mobile phones. ROK also delivers partner comics services across the globe, with partner sites in China, Pakistan, the UK and more to come

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Usability hampering mobile content adoption

Some interesting points in this short news item on FierceMobile: Usability challenges, not pricing, are slowing the adoption of new mobile data services according to a new report issued by service adoption management vendor Olista. The study, based on statistical information documenting 11 million mobile users and hundreds of millions of usage events across five different mobile o… Continue

Posted by John Freeman on 14th May 2008 at 11:57pm — No Comments (Add)

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ROK Comics is backing Floods, a new charity comic cre… Continue

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More Mobile Use Good News for Comic Creators?

Good news for mobile comics -- as predicted, it's certainly looking like more people are prepared to use their mobiles to view content. Fierece Mobile reports that both T-Mobile and Orange have just seen their results boosted by data surge. The U.K.-arm of T-Mobile claims that data traffic is now exceeding voice traffic on its network, with 25 per cent of contract customers signing up for its mobile broadband services in 1Q/08, up from just four per cent for the whole of 2007. Overall, T-Mobil… Continue

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Comic Creator Tools List
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I've been having a dig around on the Internet and had a look at a lot of the other creator tools out there. I was wondering if anyone had tried any of these and if so, what they thought of them? I'... Continue

Started by John Freeman. Last reply by John Freeman 4 Apr.

Rok Creator Interviews.
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I was thinking it might be a nice idea to come up with some generic questions for all us Rok creator and cartoonist types to answer, so we can learn a bit more about each other. I'll post a few qu... Continue

Started by dave hailwood. Last reply by Ben Clark 15 Mar.

ROK Comics Revamp Update
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just to let you know, we're having an internal meeting here at ROK on Friday morning to discuss the revamp for the site. So if there's anything you'd like to see, or things you think we should chan... Continue

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Started by John Freeman. Last reply by John Freeman 14 Mar.

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ROK Comics Creator Interviews

The following Interviews with creators based on the questions compiled by David Hailwood are now on downthetubes and ROK Comics blog. (See this forum post for the questions).

• Josh Alves

Josh Alves is a Graphic Designer/Cartoonist/Stand-up Comedian residing in the very green and mostly cold state of Maine, who's been adapting his one frame Tastes Like Chicken cartoons into three frame ROK Comics for mobile. His work has appeared on DC Comics Zuda service and in many other places, with plenty more projects in the way...

• Michael Colbert

11/3/08: Los Angeles-based features and comics author Michael (Mike) Colbert is the creator of the critically-acclaimed SF comic Crazy Mary, one of several strips not only appearing on ROK Comcs but also being translated into Chinese for ROK Comics China. He says his first memory is seeing Star Wars and his writing influences include Warren Ellis, Grant Morrison, and Douglas Adams.

• Artist Paul Harrison-Davies

9/3/08: Paul is a modest but accomplished comics artist popular in British indie circles, whose work has been published in the Mammoth Book of Best New Manga. His upcoming strip for Accent Press' Robots anthology, "MY Robot!" has been adapted into a ROK Comic series.

• Artist David Fletcher
11/3/08: New Zealand cartoonist David Fletcher claims that for the last twenty years he's been pretending to work from home as a comic strip, drawing a daily strip called The Politician and several weekly strips including The TV Kids which appears in the TV Guide. His cartoons are syndicated to Europe, Britain, Africa,Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand.
People still keep asking him when is he going to get a proper job...

• Artist Mychailo Kazybrid

8/3/08: Mychailo draws The Do Do Man for ROK Comics, but his career began way back in 1975...

• Artist John Maybury

John Maybury, editor of the Comic Creators Guild annuals, is one of a small number of comics artist utilising ROK Comics for its 'mature readers' strand, reformatting his cult indie character Space Babe for mobile. John describes The Erotic Adventures of Space Babe 113 as "a naughty SF comedy". Too right...

• Artist Dave Windett

Dave Windett has been with ROK Comics since its initial testing, providing character designs for the Creator Tool and working on other ROK projects. He has worked for a huge range of publishers during his varied career and is one of the few British artists to have drawn for Bongo's Simpsons Comics.

• Writer John Freeman

8/3/08: John Freeman is Managing Editor of ROK Comics.