Comics @ Yahoo! en Español.

Yahoo! en Español announced an agreement with CrossGeneration Entertainment to promote CrossGeneration’s “Comics on The Web” in select areas of the portal. The agreement expands the reach of “Comics on the Web” to Spanish-speaking audiences around the world, and provides Yahoo! en Español with additional content for its growing slate of for-pay services.

Yahoo! en Español will feature the comics prominently in its “Juegos” (Games) and “Noticias” (News) sections. Users who purchase an online subscription with CrossGeneration Comics on the Web will be able to download and view the comics. To give users a feel for online comics, CrossGen will continuously post a free sample chapter. Current CrossGen offerings include 146 subscription comics with 24 Spanish-language titles, including popular titles such as Mystic, Scion and Sojourn. Additional Spanish-language comics will be added weekly to the offerings.

“We are pleased to add CrossGen’s well-known and quality comics to our slate of product offerings on Yahoo! en Español,” said Fernando Battaglia, Yahoo! en Español Entertainment Producer. “We remain committed to providing our users the products and services they want and value.”

“Comics are a global medium and this milestone arrangement is a testimony to that fact,” said Tony Panaccio, CrossGen’s Vice President of Product Development. “CrossGen’s stories have been specifically designed without the typical Western prejudices that sometimes prevent American comics from being exported to other countries. Without the typical geographic biases, cultural biases and gender biases, CrossGen’s stories are relevant to a much broader audience of diverse cultures and backgrounds. After all, one of the most universal concepts in literature is the classic hero.”