Newsdate: January 12, 2012 2:30 pm   Posted in Books, Breaking News    The revolutionary iPad app, CIA: Operation Ajax will soon become an animated feature film as Cognito Comcs announces a new partnership with BoomGen Studios to expand the property into multiple media platforms. “After working in the video game industry for years, I wanted to bridge my love of technology and art to tell meaningful stories,” said Daniel Burwen, Creative Director and Founder of Cognito Comics. “The story of CIA: Operation Ajax is very relevant to our current political landscape and the power of the iPad allows us to weave actual history throughout the medium of the graphic novel.”  Ajax has been turning heads since it was released almost a year ago, with the New York Times calling it “one of the coolest media experiences that I’ve seen on the iPad” just weeks after the beta release. Currently only on Read More

I've been reading a lot of comics on the iPad lately, and while I love my iPad for a lot of reasons, I think reading comics is one of the best reasons to own an iPad. The big, beautiful screen brings comic art to life exquisitely, most apps allow you to zoom in and out of bigger pages at will, and the touch interface makes flipping a page as easy as, well, flipping a page. So I have no problem at all with free comics to download on the iPad, and that's exactly what Operation Ajax is. It's a historical comic (so no superheroes, for those of you into that, unfortunately), about the CIA's operation to cause a coup d'état in Iran in 1953. The app features full sound and motion as you're reading through the pages, along with lots of background information about the real-life story and even some newsreel Read More