Forum: Writers


Subject: Graphic novels aka comic books for adults

dialyn opened this issue on Aug 28, 2003 ยท 4 posts


thip posted Sun, 07 September 2003 at 3:42 AM

VERY interesting site. Seems to be quite a few comix fans here, I'd love to hear your opinions on the best online format for comix - as I think comix have to go online to survive. Fewer and fewer people are buying the paper version, it seems. Web comix may have a niche, at least until movies can be d/l'ed in reasonable quality at tolerable d/l times. But web comix seems to be unsure as to how comix should look on-screen. Seems to be three formats : - "Classic" - complete page, portrait format, click for next page - "New format" - same as Classic, but landscape format - "Dynamic" - Scrolling a strip of images of same height or width "Dumb" doesn't really seem to be fit for the screen, "New format" still limits you to one page before the viewer's immersion in the reading is broken by the necessity of clicking for the next. "Dynamic" could (like movies) keep the viewer there for the duration of at least a section or chapter. Which format is most likely to succeed - or are there other, better ways? Any comments appreciated.