Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts

Monday, May 28, 2012

GRAPHIC ELVIS Interactive

Title: GRAPHIC ELVIS Interactive

"Elvis"
Number/issue: 7
Genre: Biographical
Date of publication: 2012
Language: 
English
Price: Free preview, 7,55€ full version for Android, 7,99€ for Apple
Platform(s): iPad, iPhone, Android

Site

More then a comic book this app is a summary of various interactive and not-interactive materials about Elvis, and some of them are, of course, comics.
The Lite version has only 2 stories, but one of them is from the pen of the great Stan Lee!
“When I was a child ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book...So every dream that I’ve dreamed has come true a hundred times…” -Elvis

Commemorating the 35th anniversary in celebration of the life and legacy of Elvis Presley, the “Graphic Elvis” interactive app is an illustrated, interactive and animated homage to Elvis.

Featuring a story by comic book legend, Stan Lee, co-creator of Spider-Man™, X-Men™, Fantastic Four™, Iron Man™, Daredevil™, Hulk™ and Thor™ as well as additional stories and artwork from leading creators including Jimmy Palmiotti, John Cassaday, Paul Gulacy, Ryan Kelly, Paul Pope, Greg Horn, Jeevan J. Kang, Mukesh Singh, Steve Rude, Saumin Patel, Tony Millionaire, Samit Basu, Gilbert Hernandez and many more.

Beyond the original art and stories, the Graphic Elvis app also features hand-written notes never before seen by the public and written in the margins of various books owned by Elvis. Also revealed from the archives of Graceland are rare photos, notes, telegrams and memorabilia, including Elvis' interactions with legends like Muhammad Ali. 

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Operation Ajax








Title: Operation Ajax Number/issue: 10 (5 for now)
Genre: spy, thriller, graphic novel, history
Pages: not applicable
Date of publication: 2011
Language: 
English
Price: Free first 3 previews, 0,79€ each number
Platform(s): iPad
iTunes
Official site



Experience the most interactive graphic novel on a tablet, called “one of the coolest media experiences that I’ve seen on the iPad” in the New York Times!

Operation Ajax is a graphic retelling of the 1953 CIA-sponsored coup in Iran, letting you dive in to history like never before with revolutionary interactive enhancements to the traditional graphic novel experience.

Inspired by author Stephen Kinzer’s investigative journalism and his bestselling account of the coup, Operation Ajax is a riveting story that examines the facts and mystery behind today’s political conflicts in the Middle East and America’s modern discord with Iran.

Follow a covert CIA operative– based on the identities of real agents whose names were redacted from leaked CIA records- as he recalls the dramatic real-life historical events involving heads of state, covert agents, hired thugs, and revolutionary political activists.

The fun of reading comics and the allure of accessing an actual coup plan -which was controversially leaked to the New York Times in 2000- come together in this cool and engaging iPad story.