Wallace & Gromit: there's an app for that

Jake Widman
Tuesday, 10 November 2009 00:44

Your IT - Mobility

UK publisher Titan Books has come out with four Wallace and Gromit comic books in iPhone app form. Three of the apps go for 99 cents US, while the fourth is free.

Continuing the trend toward using the iTunes/iPhone/iTablet(?) ecosystem as an e-book platform, the publishers of the Wallace and Gromit series of comic books have put out four stories through the iPhone app store.

The release marks the 20th anniversary of the first ever showing of a Wallace and Gromit short.

Three of the titles -- Parts and Labour, Big in Japan, and Where There's Muck There's Brass -- cost 99 cents, while The W Files is free for a limited time.

It's not the duo's debut on iTunes -- the pair's three popular short films as well as the Cracking Contraptions series have been available in the TV Show section.

But this is the first time the spinoff comic books have been available in digital format.

It's hardly the first time a comic has been released as an iPhone app, though: publishers such as Dark Horse Comics and Robot Comics have flooded the App Store with nearly 200 comic books and strips.

The Wallace and Gromit comics are available here . (Note: link opens iTunes. And while it's a UK-specific URL, it opens the U.S. store from a U.S. computer.)