{"id":334344,"date":"2010-02-17T21:06:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T02:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/graphicly_ifanboy.php"},"modified":"2010-02-17T21:06:29","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T02:06:29","slug":"unlaunched-comic-company-buys-10-year-old-comic-fan-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/334344","title":{"rendered":"Unlaunched Comic Company Buys 10 Year Old Comic Fan Community"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boulder, CO based Graphic.ly<\/a> has put some of its venture capital to work and rolled up 10-year old comics community iFanboy<\/a>. Graphic.ly is developing an as-yet unlaunched comic and graphic novel reading application for Windows, Adobe AIR and mobile phones. The company has raised just over $1 million in backing. According to Joseph Tartakoff at PaidContent<\/a>, the company already has clients, including Disney’s Marvel.<\/p>\n

The iFanboy site is a place for comics fans to find reviews, audio and video shows. It publishes under a Creative Commons license and sees just over forty thousand visitors per month, according to Quantcast. Some portion of those visitors are paid subscribers.<\/p>\n

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The iFanboy community appears to be embracing the merger enthusiastically in comments on the official announcement<\/a>. That’s not something that can be taken for granted. The site’s journalistic objectivity comes under scrutiny now that one vendor owns iFanboy, something the site founders discuss explicitly in their announcement.<\/p>\n

Graphic.ly CEO Micah Baldwin describes the deal in lots of detail on his personal blog<\/a> and says the two companies were introduced by Joe Stump, co-founder of hot<\/a> pre-launched geolocation API provider SimpleGeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Graphic.ly came from Boulder’s TechStars<\/a> incubator and raised its money from a diverse group including but not limited to Houston’s DFJ Mercury, Starz Media, Northstar Equity Partners, Dave McClure, Chris Sacca and Paige Craig.<\/p>\n

Comics and graphic novel fans eagerly await the launch of Graphic.ly. We eagerly await seeing this tech-savvy startup in an eye-catching niche publishing market make its next move.<\/p>\n

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Boulder, CO based Graphic.ly has put some of its venture capital to work and rolled up 10-year old comics community iFanboy. Graphic.ly is developing an as-yet unlaunched comic and graphic novel reading application for Windows, Adobe AIR and mobile phones. The company has raised just over $1 million in backing. According to Joseph Tartakoff at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":552,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/552"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}