The Sunday funnies come to the iPhone
Be honest, do you still subscribe to a newspaper just so you can get the Sunday comics? If so, you may want to consider canceling and just buying your favorite ones in Apple’s App Store instead.
Developer Khalid Shaikh has released 18 popular comic strips, each as their own app for $4.99 a piece. Shaikh says each of these apps is updated with a new comic every day. To view them, you simply load the app and touch the screen to move the comic around.
It’s not entirely clear if Skaikh owns the rights to legally distribute all of these comics (and the App Store page offers no help in getting in contact with him), but I’m going to assume that he does.
The 18 comic strip apps available are:
- iGarfield
- iHeathcliff
- iFamily Circus
- iRed and Rover
- iRubes
- iMutts
- iMomma
- iGirls and Sports
- iDoonesbury
- iCow&Boy
- iBoondocks
- iBlondie
- iBC
- iAndy Capp
- iAgnes
- iNon Sequitur
- iHagar The Horrible
- iDaddy’s Home
It’d be nice to see all these comics in one app, rather than 18. It’d not only save precious room on the iPhone’s screen, it’d save you a lot of money — buying all 18 of these comics will cost you $89.82.
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MG Siegler writes about technology trends and new media for VentureBeat, with a focus on mobile topics, social elements and key news stories. Before that, MG wrote about technology on his blog, ParisLemon. Originally from Ohio, MG attended the University of Michigan where he studied film. He's previously lived in Los Angeles where he worked in Hollywood and in San Diego where he did web development. He now lives in San Francisco.