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The Madefire Revolution Continues

Jason Sacks
October 12, 2014
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Madefire continues to dominate the creator-first revolution and announced today — timed with New York Comic-Con — an exclusive DeviantArt channel on the Madefire iOS and Android app — free for independent creators. DeviantArt is the largest creative social network in the world with over 65 million monthly unique visitors. Madefire Motion Books & Comics has been a 5-star rated app since launch and recently recognized in the iOS App Store as an Editors’ Pick, Best New Apps and Best of July (2014).

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Madefire continues to push the boundaries by providing a new medium for digital storytelling. With the recent release of its Motion Book Tool in July made available to all members of the DeviantArt community, indie creators all over the world now have a chance to share the shelf with top properties at the forefront of digital comics and gain access to the same exposure as popular publishers like DC Comics, Dark Horse, IDW, Valiant — and more. Meanwhile, all of Madefire’s publishing partners continue to scale entire libraries and back-catalogues within the Madefire app.

“We’re thrilled to be leading the charge in the creator-first movement by opening up our platform to new creators,” said Ben Wolstenholme, CEO and Co-Founder of Madefire. “The response has been overwhelming in the creator community and with our major publisher partners as well — sharing in our vision to bring forward new creators and new myths to the world.”

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The Milk For The Ugly Motion Book — also released in July on DeviantArt through its integrated Madefire reader and Motion Book galleries — generated a groundswell of enthusiasm with over 700,000 reads. It received an overwhelming amount of feedback creating a committed following for the property and is a prime example of how talented indie creators have been discovered on a global scale, and can now have a full audience.

“Our collaboration with Madefire is like nothing else out there. Storytellers connecting directly to their audience is a very powerful mechanism,” said Angelo Sotira, CEO and Co-Founder of deviantART. “The recent, massive success of the Milk For The Ugly Motion Book shows the scale of exposure now offered to independent creators through the Madefire and DeviantArt partnership. Authors are in control of production and distribution simultaneously in a brand new medium. The 4,218 comments on the authors’ Motion Book page in just over two months provide a tangible, real-time response from the audience no paid researcher could provide.”

One DeviantArt member, Nikolai-King on the Milk For The Ugly Motion Book: “Everything down to the animation had me captivated from beginning to end. The music was especially good to me, reminding me of the old SNES game ‘Clue.’ Thank you very much for this horrific and amusing treat.”

The Motion Book Tool was recently launched to the public in July and has been continuously developed with the creator in mind. Taking static art a step further by incorporating movement, sound and depth to visual reading, the platform continues to push the limits in digital storytelling. New features have been introduced to allow for a more streamlined creative process like creating covers with a click of a button and animating art in a few simple steps. Publishing to the web has never been easier and can take as little as 5 minutes. The ease of sharing your story on a website or blog is also more fluid now with an embed code automatically created when the book is published, giving the creator control of where and how their story is told.


Milk for the Ugly art courtesy akreon and Kate Redesiuk

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Jason Sacks has been obsessed with pop culture for longer than he'd like to remember. Jason has been writing for Comics Bulletin for nearly a decade, producing over a million words of content about comics, films and other media. He has also been published in a number of publications, including the late, lamented Amazing Heroes, The Flash Companion and The American Comic Book Chronicles: the 1970s,1980s and 1990s. Find him on Facebook and Twitter. Jason is the Publisher Emeritus of Comics Bulletin.

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