[Janus Wolf]

Its around 12:34pm right now. I have always promissed myself to be up to date on the latest on digital comics and edutainment.
These are two areas I am rather interested in as a hobby. While there are many exciting things planned for the site, I thought it was time to do a little of my own content here.

Its true now with devises such as ipad, itouch, and ipad comics are becoming more portable in a digital format. Lets also not forget the pc and notebooks as well, as well as other PDA devices.

The great positive of all of this, is clearly sites such as GAC-UK are reaching out to new audiences. What I also agree with in the article is that we will eventually see "motion comics". If you youtube some old "Hulk" or "Thor" from the 1960's you will see that these were early "motion comics". There were alot of still frames and very basic animation. Sometimes I even think it would be a good idea to collect some of these older animations for our viewing pleasure. Just in case your wondering what I refering to, its the Marvel cartoon's from 1966. Here is one of them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgbsV6aTHts


Now, according to the article the comic industry is a 1 billion dollar US market and digital sales are less then 5% of that total.

I have some thoughts on comic book shops and a general idea on how they can survive until next post!


Here is the article, for more:

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/superhero-identity-crisis-comic-books-digital-age/story?id=11248360

[JimShelley]

Thank you for the link!

I think just as we've seen nobodies become somebodies on youtube, we'll see a certain amount of new (and old) comics get discovered in this new digital arena. I would love to see a nice selection of older public domain comics on the ComiXology application!

[Janus Wolf]

That is interesting you mention comixology. They seem to have every major publisher with them. Now Comic Zeal, seems to have the public domain books and I think your comics  as well! Now, while I was scrolling down comixology's publisher list they have a section called "creator owned comics" section. This is something I would like to investigate more of. I will look into it and let you all know.

cheers

Janus



Shelley link=topic=2276.msg26151#msg26151 date=1280227104]
Thank you for the link!

I think just as we've seen nobodies become somebodies on youtube, we'll see a certain amount of new (and old) comics get discovered in this new digital arena. I would love to see a nice selection of older public domain comics on the ComiXology application!
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