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July 27, 2004
Mobile comics
Mobile comics: Randy Dotinga profiles the first group of people moving cartoons and animations to mobile phones. Unlike the web, there's an intrinsic payment model. With current displays, the punchlines of current comics are based more on words than on visuals. The four-panel format of a newspaper strip poses difficult UI choices. I suspect publishing cycles will change (not monthly, not daily). Where cartoonists had to focus on getting a distribution contract and setting up a bulletproof production process for newspapers, in mobiles the key questions may be finding ways for the audience to tell their friends about your work.
Posted by John Dowdell at July 27, 2004 04:35 PM
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Its true that it will be a great task for comics artist to seach for distribution contract and to create and test their comics to ensure that it can work with new phones. Thats why you need a company like ComiAsia.com, a mobile comics platfrom provider. They concentrate on building a platform to between consumers and artist. Do check it out at www.comiasia.com. You can also download the ComiStudio tool where you can upload you digital comics into java version. Currently, it is on beta stage so that users can see how the system works. By Feburary, the full system will be ready, you artist will be able to communicate and collobrate via their portal. ComiAsia has also link to more than 20 aggregators.
Posted by: karen at December 4, 2006 06:27 AM
Hey,
to share with you, you can also get ComiAsia to help you to create multiple jar files so that your mobile comics can support more phone models with just 2 sets of graphics sizes.
You may visit www.comiasia.com
hope this helps!
We can learn from each other.
Posted by: karen at January 20, 2007 10:46 AM
I had my comics at ComiAsia for some time and thought they were always very polite and well-meaning they seemed to be gridlocked by corporate forces, they were extremely slow to get things done. I don't know exactly why but I pulled my comic from their service.
Posted by: Donald Jackson at March 4, 2007 06:24 AM