With the rise of file sharing and piracy it has been increasingly hard for publishers to control money leakage from digital/mobile comics and as such publishers (especially traditional Japanese Manga houses) have shied away from licensing digital or mobile comics.
This however, has led to the rise of user-generated (independent artists) using platforms to publish and sell their work at low cost, and (for the first time in years) do so profitably.
However, there are platforms for iPhone and iPad that have been developed to distribute RSS-based webcomics for free, such as the iOS application Comic Avenue.
Thunder Road is the first original title for the medium, featuring artist Steven Sanders who previously worked on The Five Fists of Science.
[3][4][5] Carnival of Souls is the first digital and motion comic book series on Blackberry's App World, written by Jazan Wild.