It looks absolutely great. Not entirely sure about the 'guided' format to the comic on the iphone, where you're pushed to the text boxes etc.
I personally think comics are something that the reader controls their reading of and directing them to a part of a frame is a little jarring at first - must have been a LOT of work to do it.
But mobile comics are still finding their feet, everyone's experimenting with format and their are no hard and fast rules (other than big text!) I suppose. The delivery concerns don't detract from my enjoyment of the work.
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I don't have anything to actually view the mobile versions of R13 so I don't really know for sure but I don't believe that you have to view it using the guided method. There's a preview out right now on youtube that features the guided method but it also briefly shows the jukebox method which I think allows you to view the page in it's entirety and zoom in on panels on your own. They were just heavily promoting the other format since it's new and I do know that R13 is their debut book using the technology.
It'll be interesting to see where digital comics go with this.
I personally think comics are something that the reader controls their reading of and directing them to a part of a frame is a little jarring at first - must have been a LOT of work to do it.
But mobile comics are still finding their feet, everyone's experimenting with format and their are no hard and fast rules (other than big text!) I suppose. The delivery concerns don't detract from my enjoyment of the work.
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John Freeman
British Comics Site: [link]
Comics on Mobile: [link]
It'll be interesting to see where digital comics go with this.
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