Nick Langley and Ron Richards ask whether the move to digital comics will doom paper or help
comics reach a new audience.
Not exact matches
Certainly, selling a title through Amazon or iTunes has the potential to
reach a wider
new reader
audience than selling a title through a
comics - specific app.
As digital
comics continue to change the way that readers access the medium, potentially creating
new audiences and markets where the graphic medium was previously unable to
reach, digital gatekeepers — whether it is Apple, Comixology or another third - party platform — make it harder to access the content.
With no cohesive plan or desire to actively expand that
audience by advertising outside of the
comic world (like perhaps an ad in women's magazines about female centric characters might
reach, you know, women), an unwillingness to grow a
new crop of fans by maintaining a consistent product for kids and a host of other issues like the economy and increasing competition form other areas of entertainment, it's no wonder things are in such disarray.
Now, French company Aquafadas is at the head of a
new wave of software developers who are providing the tools for
comics creators to self - publish digitally, hopefully
reaching a bigger
audience than the people who pass their card table in the Artists Alley.