Digital comic
Digital comics (also known as electronic comics,[1] eComics,[2] e-comics,[3] or ecomics[4] /ˈiːˌkɒmɪks/) are comics released digitally, as opposed to in print. Digital comics commonly take the form of mobile comics. Webcomics may also fall under the "digital comics" umbrella.
Background
With the growing use of
Some comics are initially available as "Digital First" or "digital first" publications. These offerings usually contain only about half or a third of the content of a printed magazine issue, though these "chapters" have correspondingly lower price points than full magazine issues. Many "digital first" comics are presented horizontally, with half of a traditional portrait page layout, for ease of viewing on computer monitors (which are typically longer length-wise than height-wise).[9][10]
Notable digital distributors
Dark Horse Comics launched its online digital store in 2011 which supports both computers, iOS and Android devices. The site allows over 2,000 comics to be previewed.[15]
Since 2012,
The website
In 2013, Panel Syndicate received critical acclaim and media attention for its role publishing one of the first DRM-free, pay what you want comics by high caliber creators.[24][25]
Asian digital comics
In Asia, digital comics have become very popular due to readers mostly reading titles on their smartphones and the lower barrier to create their own comics. In some countries, digital comics have revitalized the industry or even created them where they didn't exist before.
In China, digital comics are known as "
In Japan,
The South Korean
See also
- Comic Book Archive file, a digital media format used to view archived comics
- Mobile comic, comics for mobile devices
- Digital Comic Museum
- Webcomic
- Webtoon
References
- ^ Ian Hague, Comics and the Senses: A Multisensory Approach to Comics and Graphic Novels, Routledge, 2014, ch. 2: "Sight, or, the Ideal Perspective and the Physicality of Seeing".
- ^ eComics – Dark Horse Comics
- ^ Evan Dorkin (w), Jill Thompson (a), "Grave Happenings," Beasts of Burden #4, Dark Horse Comics, December 2009, letter column.
- ^ Don Macnaughtan, The Buffyverse Catalog, McFarland, 2011: "The BBC collected 14 Dark Horse Buffy stories into an "ecomics" or webcomics collection."
- ^ Jackson Miller, John. "Overall print comics market topped $700 million in 2012". Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
- ^ Thompson, Jason (23 January 2012). "Why Manga Publishing Is Dying (And How It Could Get Better)". io9. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
- ^ "Discontinuation of the Manga Content-Browsing Feature". Retrieved 9 November 2014.
- ^ Melrose, Kevin (27 May 2014). "Graphicly to shut down as Blurb acquires employees". Retrieved 9 November 2014.
- ^ "DC Announces the Expansion of DC DIGITAL FIRST and the Addition of DC ESSENTIAL READS". 20 April 2020.
- ^ "DC Digital First Comics Are Really Digital Seconds". April 2021.
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- ^ "ComiXology Publisher List". Archived from the original on August 16, 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
- ^ "ComiXology bought by Amazon.com". Archived from the original on April 11, 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
- ^ "Avenging Spider-Man #1 Makes Digital History". 12 October 2011. Retrieved 10 November 2011.
- ^ "Dark Horse Homepage Features". Darkhorse. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
- ^ "DC Entertainment Digital Comic Books Now Available on Kindle Store, iBookStore and Nook Store". DC Comics. 7 November 2012. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
- ^ "Welcome to the NEW ImageComics.com". Retrieved 8 November 2014.
- ^ "Digital Comics Formats". Archived from the original on 1 January 2015. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
- ^ "Frequently Asked Questions". Archived from the original on 7 October 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
- ^ "Image Comics Now Selling DRM-Free Digital Comics From Its Website". Archived from the original on 21 December 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
- ^ "Humble Bundle, Image Offer All-Graphic Novel e-Bundle". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
- ^ "Valiant Gets Into the Charity Game With a Massive Humble Bundle Deal". Retrieved 9 November 2014.
- ^ "How Humble Bundle is Changing the Face of Digital Comics Buying". Comicbook Resources. 3 October 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
- ^ Sava, Oliver. "Brian K. Vaughan's The Private Eye is a bold move forward for digital comics". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
- ^ Johnson, Mark (20 April 2013). "The Private Eye: The First Digital Blockbuster And How That Changes Everything". Bleeding Cool. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
- ^ "漫画-有妖气原创漫画梦工厂- 首页". www.u17.com. Retrieved 2016-10-03.
- ^ "端脑". U17. 北京四月星空网络技术有限公司. Retrieved 2016-10-02.
Sources
- Moreno, Pepe & Gold, Mike (Introduction) (1990). Batman: Digital Justice, DC Comics
- Parker, Charley (1997). Argon Zark!, Arclight Publishing
- McCloud, Scott (2000) Reinventing Comics, pp. 140, 165, Paradox Press
- Withrow, Stephen (2003). Toon Art: The art of Digital Cartooning, pp. 12–21, 45, 118–119, 170–171, 174–175, 184–187, Watson-Guptill
External links
- Szadkowski, Joseph (July 1, 2000). "Digital Production Comes of Age in the Comic World", Animation World Magazine