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[airpoint]

Hi everyone,

It happened like almost half a year ago that I have first stumbled upon GAC and fell in love immediately with the very first comic I found - This Magazine is Haunted. It was particularly issue #14 from vol 1 and the short story called 'The Wig' which got me into the stuff so much that I decided that I have to bring these somehow over to the age of digital displays.
First I thought I would just clean up the scan. Then I figured - would be better to re-do the lettering. Then I thought if I got so far I could also optimise the panels for small screen sizes of smartphones... wow - so I spent like 2 months re-doing my favourite issue and when it was finished I realised it was rubbish lol - it looked like a cheap ugly imitation.
So I have re-done it again and then again and then again - until I got something that I thought could be good enough to show off:

http://www.hauntly.com/

Please tell me, honestly, what do you think about all this?

cheers

[narfstar]

I don't have or use a smart phone. If I did it would be great.

[Roygbiv666]

I'm not sure why you wanted to remove the existing word balloons and editorial boxes. I'd keep them, but I'm lazy.

The preview shows the image on a smartphone, but wouldn't people turn the phone on its side to look at tiny images to make them bigger?

Narf raises a good point - who is the audience? If it's older people (no offense Narf :-) ), are they likely to have/use/want to use smartphones to read anything, if it's younger people with smartphones are they likely to be interested in old comics since they don't generally buy new paper ones?

[airpoint]

@narfstar thx for the comment!

@Roygbiv666 good points! thx for that
my first draft was with original balloons but because of splitting panels to separate screens it just wasn't possible to keep them and I had to make totally new balloons. I tried few versions and in the end I found these 'subtitle like' to fit well for what I'm doing...

re landscape vs portrait - at first I went for a widescreen version but the source scans are basically in such a low resolution that it wouldn't be possible to resize all panels for full screen (landscape or portrait) - so I decided to stick to the 'film feeling'
Plus the idea is to distribute this on more platforms and portrait mode is better adaptable on more devices without serious quality loss...

re audience - wow - yea - you got me on this one - very basic question but no clear idea about this unfortunately...
it's just every sequential art lover with a smartphone