Originally started in Korea in 2005, they're now global in reach, and their latest list of upcoming releases has some names attached that are familiar to
traditional comic readers.
I think the iPad feels more natural to
a traditional comic reader, but with our iPhone formatting there isn't a lot of camera movement or sliding around, and users, especially young readers, seem to enjoy reading on the iPhone as much as they would anywhere else.
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.»
Not exact matches
If branding and direct engagement with
readers, two things many
comics publishers do very well, is truly the holy grail for
traditional publishers, does the
comics industry offer any lessons, positive or negative, to learn from?
Not coincidentally, both are tied to other media, a game and a television show, respectively, and they may be drawing in new
readers via those media rather than from the
traditional comics - shop crowd.
Guided View was created so that the Comics app could lead a
reader through a
traditional comic page frame by frame, but Brown said he was using camera panning for a «kinetic feel,» even though there's actually no «original»
comic page in the work.
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.
In its purest form — the Madefire app is a free
comic book
reader with direct in - app purchasing and where
traditional print
comics coexist with a new digital format to take visual storytelling to the next level.
Suddenly in local newspapers all across America, one of the most
traditional comic strips ever was launching a detailed debate about the pros and cons of reading ebooks on a digital
reader.
Ultimately, Hedgecock's expects «Fruit Ninja» fans will be drawn to the
comic, pointing out that the percentage of «
traditional comic book
readers» Ape properties attract is pretty small.
Economics of Digital
Comics walks the
reader through the history and business models of the modern
comics world, starting with the «
traditional» print formats and progressing through the new digital formats, then compares what is necessary to hit revenue benchmarks in each format.
On the other hand,
comic files not DRM protected are the
traditional files such as PDF or EPUB formats or the popular CBR and CBZ
comic book formats which can be viewed by a variety of
readers.
Popular digital
comics retailer comiXology today announced a new initiative whereby
traditional direct market retailers — which is to say, your local
comic book stores — can plug in comiXology's digital infrastructure, inventory and
reader to sell digital
comics on their own websites.
For her characters, she pulls out poses that suggest a very different narrative from the violent and sexist stories that rivet
readers of
traditional Mexican
comics.