ROK Comics - publishers of the audio comics
Team MOBILE,
Houdini Adventures,
Master Merlini and more - is offering the chance for you to be drawn into an upcoming ROK Comic as a supporting character!
All you have to do is upload to Instagram and hashtag #rokcomics by 12 noon GMT 31st July, 2013.
ROK
Comics will scour the entries and pick the best entry, which will then
feature in the next available audio comic from our growing list of
exciting audio comic titles.
The photo can be funny, heroic, sad,
silly or thoughtful - the important thing is that it's YOU (not your
pet!) and a good enough image for our artists to work from!
What are you waiting for? Break out your secret identity gear and upload now!
Lancaster-based ROK Comics publishes a range of audio and other digital comics titles, with
Team M.O.B.I.L.E.,
Houdini Adventures and
Master Merlini among several on sale for iPad, iPhone and Android devices – and many more titles in the works.
All
ROK Comics titles deliver great comic content, enhanced by a fully
authored audio soundtrack and other features that only digital comics
can fully exploit, including animation and, in the case of its music
comics range, music videos.
Says ROK CEO Jonathan Kendrick: “ROK
is pioneering the creation and delivery of original audio comic books
across a range of new titles and we are delighted to be bringing comic
books to life in this dynamic way via the latest technologies.”
Sales
of digital comics are growing rapidly, but many are simply re-formats
of existing print titles which fail to take advantage of the
opportunities offered by digital devices. ROK has embraced the new
medium head on, delivering not just great comics but extras that will
appeal to all ages now well used in the potential of modern media.
“With
all the extras, we wanted to complement the comic storytelling that
make a comic a comic,” says editor John Freeman, “but added new elements
that will give the stories even greater appeal.
“We’re hoping our
carefully-created titles will appeal outside of comic fandom. We’ve had
feedback from parents who tell us our audio comics are a great help
with children coming to grips with learning to read, for example. “
Team M.O.B.I.L.E.
An ongoing adventure comic,
Team M.O.B.I.L.E.
centres on the story of teenagers recruited into a secret organisation
to battle crime, terrorism and other dangers – some stranger than
others. The series was created by Jonathan Kendrick and features art by
Andrew Chiu.
Houdini Adventures
An ongoing adventure
comic recounting all-new adventures of the world’s greatest escape
artist. Written by magician Jamie Allan Nicklin and composer and script
writer Simon Wheeler, the launch issue features art by the
highly-regarded Spanish artists Rafael Broseta and David Belmonte.
The comic includes exclusive videos revealing magician’s secrets – some included for free, some offered as in-app purchase.
Titles also on sale now include several audio “bio comics” including
The Beatles Story, an eight-issue limited digital series collecting, in full, the stunning
creator-owned comic co-created by Angus Allan and Arthur Ranson, which
will include rare video of the Beatles.
Rok has also published bio comics of British music acts
ZeZi, 2012
X-Factor favourite
Joe Whelan and
OG Niki – and an action adventure-oriented mini comic starring British rapper Rick Fury.
Titles in Production include:
•
The Elvis Story,
an eight-issue limited digital series by Angus Allan and Arthur Ranson
telling revealing the legend of the King, never re-published since its
first appearance in British comic
Look-In in the 1980s
• My Favorite Martian Collecting the
My Favorite Martian comics by Bill Titcombe from British comic
TV Century 21, never before seen in the United States, as the show celebrates its 50
th Anniversary, in conjunction with Jack Chertok Television
•
A new digital comics anthology, in partnership with
Markosia Enterprises, launching later in 2013
•
Banned Across the Universe…
In space, no-one can hear you sing – unless you pretend you’re someone
famous, and probably dead! An ongoing action-humour strip drawn by Kev
Levell
•
Ex Astris, an amazing science fiction comic
set in the far future on an Earth transformed by alien intervention and
environmental disaster, by Bill Storie
• Visit ROK Comics at: www.rokcomics.com
