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DSTLRY , aventure - backeddigital comic books marketplace , on Tuesday add a dyad of feature design to contribute customization to the platform . The first feature , dubbed Commissioned Digital Remarques , allow Divine to add personalised study and signatures to digital comics . The 2nd , Unlimited Digital Covers , expand platform - broad accession to substitute comic record covers .
Commissioned Digital Remarques brings the tradition of in - soul comic customization into the digital region . At conventions , wait in line for an artist ’s sketch or signature is a major part of the fan experience . In the comic world , a remarque is a little sketch or scribble made on a record book ’s cover version or pages , often integrate with existing artwork . The cartoon are less time - intensive than full character illustrations but still extremely valued by collectors .
In DSTLRY ’s take on things , it ’s the Lord who set both the price and turnaround time . Like the book themselves , once a digital comic is remarqued , user can then plow around and sell or merchandise the remarqued issues on DSTLRY .
When former Comixology executives David Steinberger and Chip Mosher firstannounced the company in 2023 , collectability was a tentpole feature film . Forced scarcity in the soma of modified variant has been deeply engrained in comic for 10 now . While Steinberger and Mosher were quick to note that DSTLRY would never be an NFT mart , limited edition still play a major part in its built - in comics marketplace — and business concern model .
Variant covers — when a newspaper publisher relinquish multiple covers for a single issue — have play a cardinal persona in comic book collectability for decades . The phenomenon took off during the nineties comics plunger boom , when thing like holograms and holofoil were all the furore . While the bottom has fallen out of the grocery in the intervening 10 , collectors still act as a major part in the ecosystem .
The new Unlimited Digital Covers feature means that both the main and alternative covers stay on in digital circulation for the life of the book . Some scarcity will rest , however . Along with remarques , “ collectable var. ” are available for a single workweek after the Word ’s firing . After that , users have to bribe or swop for them in the DSTLRY Marketplace .
Notably , all product bought and trade through the website ’s work up - in secondary market continue to beget royalties for Lord . That ’s a central divergence between the DSTLRY theoretical account and the traditional resale market , wherein artists and writers do n’t get a cutting when back issues are betray .
