From the website:

Master storyteller Stephen King presents a revolutionary new form of entertainment: his short story “N.” brought to vibrant life through a series of 25 graphic video episodes. The original series tells the story of a psychiatrist who falls victim to the same deadly obsession as his patient—an obsession that just might save the world!

Drawn by award-wining comic book artist Alex Maleev, and colored by famed comic book colorist José Villarrubia, the episodes were adapted by Marc Guggenheim, co-creator of the ABC-TV series “Eli Stone” with creative oversight from Stephen King.

I’ve watched the six available episodes.  So far, not bad.  A new, roughly two minute episode will be released each weekday until August 29.  Twenty five episodes in all.  Stephen King’s short story “N.” will be released in comic book form by Marvel in early 2009.

I recently returned from Wizard World in Chicago.  If I had to offer a watered down description of Wizard World to the uninformed, which I will now do and most likely fail horribly at, I would say it’s a “comic book” related event.  There are isle after isle of people, stores and companies selling comics, graphic novels, toys, t-shirts and other assorted memorabilia — mostly of a superhero nature.   Many fans dress up, parade around and pose for photos.  Comic artists and writers, both indie and big name, sit at booths signing and promoting their work.

With The Dark Knight coming to theaters July 18, the focus was on Batman at Chicago.  Further fueling the pointy-eared caped crusader mania was the world premier of Batman: Gotham Knight, a full length anime consisting of six separate, but interlocking chapters, bridging the gap from Batman the beginner to Batman the Dark Knight.

It was fun.  Picked up a bunch of free stuff and bought The Watchmen in graphic novel form.  A Watchmen movie, directed by the guy who did 300, is scheduled for a March 2009 release.

Below are a few photos from Wizard World Chicago.

Wowio.com offers up free Ebooks in the PDF form.  I heard about this site from the I Read Comics podcast.  And rightly so because Wowio serves a good number of comics and graphic novels from scores of publishers.  The absence of DC and Marvel proves not much of a surprise.  But many indie publishers have signed up.

The sign up process could potentially hold you back.  With three ways to sign up, I chose to enter my email.  Wait, what?  What’s so hard about entering in a email?  Well, Wowio won’t take free email address like hotmail, yahoo, gmail, etc.  But this is most likely the way to go if you have one.  Otherwise you have to enter a credit card — albeit for authentication purposes only — or send them a scan of an ID!

After signing up the download process is simple and painless.  I was quickly reading the current most popular comic on the site: Singularity 7.

Singularity 7, as described on the publisher’s site:

With the Earth laid waste by an assault from microscopic nanites, humanity hides in underground cities. But those cities are being destroyed by the “Gosiodo” -machine beings engineered to convert the remnants of humanity to the will of the nanites. It’s up to seven men and women, seemingly immune to the nanotechnology, to fight back… before there’s nothing left to fight for.

THIS JUST IN:  Wowio, apparently overnight, shut down the site and announced they are “going global”, retooling the site and will be back mid-July.  The site now looks like this: