This feels more
like the traditional comic approach and provides a more visceral experience.
The formatting of that particular title required the reader to zoom in and then arrow over to every block, which would be
like traditional comic book or graphic novel readers needing to run a handheld magnifying glass over every page in order to read the text and see the complete artwork.
Not exact matches
Like I said, we kept him really
traditional to the
comic book.
However, it's closer to what a
traditional experience of reading a
comic book is
like, so people tend to read and buy more on the iPad.
The only step left in this exercise has to do with duplication and resizing: most
comics aren't published in a 11 x 17 format, so it helps to know what your images would look
like in a more
traditional, printed format.
Are they using digital and quirky concepts
like «Batman» 66» to «incubate» ideas for the
traditional print
comics, I wondered?
While some of your
traditional comics readers are starting to read
comics digitally, it seems a lot of this can be a new audience because the titles that are selling best for us are the big licensed tie - ins: «Star Wars,» «Mass Effect,» «Buffy» and the Whedon titles, more than the creator - owned titles
like «Hellboy» and «B.P.R.D.»
I mean, I guess you could say that «
traditional»
comics are mostly on paper and «digital»
comics are mostly not, but that doesn't feel
like a boundary that's particularly useful to point out.
Many
traditional publishing imprints (
like S&S and Random House) are buying
comic books and positioning them
like traditional books (for lack of a better word).
Fantasy also has subgenres
like science fiction does: high epic, urban, historical, slipstream,
traditional,
comic and contemporary.
(That means if you're a publisher
like Baen who does well in the South and
comic bookstores and non
traditional venues you take a hit anyway.)
We began with an initial group of
traditional print
comic writers and artists to get their perspective on what they'd
like to be able to achieve with digital
comics.
The app faces a similar problem to
traditional comic - book stores: Consumers who don't read
comics on a regular basis — but who might be interested in a specific franchise property,
like Doctor Who, or a
comic written by an author they enjoy,
like Anne Rice — are less likely to know about their availability, since they're no more likely to download the
comics apps than they are to visit a
comic - book store.
Kerbal Space Program (2011):
Like Minecraft, Kerbal took advantage of indie development not being beholden to
traditional deadlines to keep improving until its
comic rocket science was as good as the real thing.
Character portraits are
traditional 2D art, while the battle screen is filled with 3D versions that look
like they leapt off of the
comic page.
Taking inspiration from both
traditional Japanese painting from the Edo period as well as contemporary anime and manga
comics, Yamaguchi Ai depicts geisha subjects with subtle references to freedom —
like wildly unkempt hair and hairpins littered on the floor.
Services
like Kindle Unlimited offer all - you - can - read streaming for
traditional books, but if you crave a combination of sequential art and punchy prose,
comic books are the way to go.