It
‘s probably true that the easiest eye-catching technology to apply to comics, that some artists are doing, is to use techniques like Flash, and yes, that risks changing the form so much that they?re not comics anymore. —Andrew Stern —Keeping Digital Comics Comics (Grand Text Auto)
A good overview of the tension between online comics and other genres.
Similar:
Close Reading of Sonnet 130: Form, Theme, and Cultural Context (and a Rage Comic)
I'm preparing to teach Shakespeare again...
Academia
"We Need to Be More Vigilant With What We Trust From the Internet." --Fake President
From Buzzfeed: Sitting before the Sta...
Cyberculture
A Beginner's Guide to HTML & CSS
Filing this wonderful resource for the n...
Cyberculture
One deck below the bridge, the chief engineer coordinates with his technical heads here at...
Aesthetics
Life in Code and Software (Open Humanities Press)
This book explores the relationship betw...
Academia
Twitter changes strategy in battle against internet 'trolls'
Reducing the reach of abusive tweets is ...
Business
I read a few web comics and one in particular, Darkmoon’s Silly Web Comic (DSWC), features 8- and 16-bit Nintendo sprites from the Castlevania video game series in static and animated forms. I am not sure if I understand where Stern is coming from because comics qualify as New Media objects. Because comics are New Media, then they are subject to potential New Media futures that Lev Manovich pointed out in his book, _Language of New Media_, when he says films will learn how to show multiple layers of action on a single cell. Examples of this are DSWC, Fox’s series 24, and Ang Lee’s Hulk movie. Although these examples contain flair, we still read them the same way, so I fail to see how animated web comics are not comics anymore.