I wish there was some innovation in the online comics scene. Right now it seems like it’s just GoComics buying up all the rights and displaying them one strip per page and you have to click to get to the next page. Comics for the most part could be pretty easily reformatted to fit screens because of the nice boxes they are contained in. Sure, there are some wall breaking comics that need to be kept a certain way, but you could flag those for viewing only in the original format.
I tried looking for an app for reading comics, and the ones that popped up first seemed more for anime smut than traditional newspaper comic strips. Would be so nice to go through some of the older strips by swiping on a phone, or even have a personalized comic strip page of dailies designed for you because it’s nice to get a variety.
I used to read French comic books on Hoopla, my library’s online service. Their reader could advance panel-by-panel through the comic book page. Pretty neato. Don´t know if it was entered manually, automatically, or a mix of the two.
Variety is nice, but I consumed most of my comics via books, starting with Garfield.
I greatly enjoyed Dysfunctional Family Circus, and there’s always Gorefield, aka Garfield written by Lovecraft. Garfield was always a little boring, though–I think I was in second-grade at the time.
Have you delved back into the old classics? There’s a lot there. Sometimes it just takes a little while to learn what the comic is about–is enough to do when you’re exposed to it every day in the paper, but harder if you’re going in blind. I don’t really think of comics as greatly in need of innovation, though phone accessibility is a factor, I can´t think of anything that is better for being on a phone.
I love this inverted three panel pyramid, looks great on my cell phone. I guess in an ideal world we’d have panels arranged dynamically.
There’s at least one comic here that publishes both in landscape and vertical (or maybe it’s the poster that does it).
I read it twice every time, no regrets.
I wish there was some innovation in the online comics scene. Right now it seems like it’s just GoComics buying up all the rights and displaying them one strip per page and you have to click to get to the next page. Comics for the most part could be pretty easily reformatted to fit screens because of the nice boxes they are contained in. Sure, there are some wall breaking comics that need to be kept a certain way, but you could flag those for viewing only in the original format.
I tried looking for an app for reading comics, and the ones that popped up first seemed more for anime smut than traditional newspaper comic strips. Would be so nice to go through some of the older strips by swiping on a phone, or even have a personalized comic strip page of dailies designed for you because it’s nice to get a variety.
Maybe I just found a project for myself…
I used to read French comic books on Hoopla, my library’s online service. Their reader could advance panel-by-panel through the comic book page. Pretty neato. Don´t know if it was entered manually, automatically, or a mix of the two.
Variety is nice, but I consumed most of my comics via books, starting with Garfield.
Garfield is a pretty good comic for starting out. I also have a pretty big collection of Garfield books. But they’re pretty boring nowadays.
Good to know there’s been some innovation in comics.
I greatly enjoyed Dysfunctional Family Circus, and there’s always Gorefield, aka Garfield written by Lovecraft. Garfield was always a little boring, though–I think I was in second-grade at the time.
Have you delved back into the old classics? There’s a lot there. Sometimes it just takes a little while to learn what the comic is about–is enough to do when you’re exposed to it every day in the paper, but harder if you’re going in blind. I don’t really think of comics as greatly in need of innovation, though phone accessibility is a factor, I can´t think of anything that is better for being on a phone.