[Scarlet Speedster]

I'm a huge fan of the comics medium, and its transition to digital presentation has been rough so far. The traditional 3 panel strip works fine, but when you try and simply reproduce traditional comic pages onto the screen it doesn't work because of a number of factors. All of which boil down to the fact that you're displaying something through a medium it wasn't designed for. The sheer measurements of a comic page often do not align with the measurements of a computer screen, especially when you're dealing with a double page spread. It's an almost backwards way of thinking to approach digital publication in this manner.

This is how you do it: http://balak01.devia...OMICS-111966969

This is taking an innovative approach at an established medium and creating something new. As an aspiring comics writer myself, I often contemplate the ability to reach a wider audience through the internet and webcomics than through traditional small press publication. I've though long and hard about the best way to present comics online, and while I haven't come up with what works perfectly, I know what doesn't work. What the artist here has done definitely works.

As far as a fiscally practical model goes, that still requires exploration. From a storytelling and artistic perspective though, it's clearly the direction to be headed in if you do not want to be left behind.

[Hailsky]

that is fantastic!
i like.

[Deadboy]

i like it also

[Wade Wilson]

brings up a few good points, and presents them in a unique way. I approve!

[gamerking]

This comic was a brilliant and unique idea that i feel works very well!

[gylbert]

I can't decide if that more closely resembles a flip book or a story board. Intriguing, nonetheless

[Bodhisattva]

I can't decide if that more closely resembles a flip book or a story board. Intriguing, nonetheless

Reminds me a lot of Platinum Grit in that flipbook approach. Warning: Platinum Grit can be QSFW at the best of times, so you should probably consider it NSFW.

[Hawke Winter]

So, it's kind of like those "motion comics" that I've seen a few times now, though really the only ones I've seen were in movies (such as I Am Legend) and games (like Dead Space), but the user controls the timing of the events and it's not a movie. Huh...guess that'd be one way to go about getting a webcomic done. Though would it still be a "webcomic" and not something else?

[alekdieren]

http://e-merl.com/hypercomics
Specifically:

http://e-merl.com/mrnile/

[Zayzie]

Yeah, they Sly Cooper games employ a similar approach, through their cut scenes and such. The only problem with this approach is it isn't marketable as books, I don't think, unless you sell your comics on discs. Something like Kindle, or being able to download apps onto blackberries or iphones to view webcomics like this would be interesting, but while creative, you can't sell it as easily as a book, or control it as well if your electronic messes up.

Although I do enjoy the flashcomic, Lizzy, and the occasional gif animations that dead.winter employs- it'd be interesting to somehow make comics like these more marketable. I'm not sure if marketable is the right word though, I want to use another word, but I it's on the tip of my tongue.

[beachbum]

Uh, OK, That is interesting....... But, Add a few more frames, And make it play automatically and what have you invented???????... The "Cartoon???" ...

Yeah it's another way to go but it lacks something to. They still have to draw each frame ... So what are you saving???? My ability to see today panels in a single view.....
So if they made LICD this way we could get a 30 page thing like this once a week, Would that be better??

[Alchymist]

I like the potential digital comics have, it makes story telling even more compelling than it is now

[spikeville]

Nice one

Hadnt heard of this or Cars, either. But have seen that Boom is doing a comic for The Incredibles as well.