Webcomics have changed video...

I came across this video  about the ways webcomics have changed over the last few years!

It's actually mostly about the social aspects - the fact that the goal used to be to get viewers to go to your webcomic hosted on its' own website, but now most things are hosted on Tapas or Webtoon. He also goes into how social media and mobile usage has changed things.  He doesn't really talk about storytelling/format specific things (like I'm doing with javascript)

Funnily enough I'm going in the opposite direction, putting my comic on its' own site (because of it's custom layouts and js). But because mine is a short comic, intended to be released as a finished product rather than an ongoing comic to subscribe to, those main reasons for using tapas/webtoon aren't so relevant.

Something unrelated but very cool he mentioned - Flatton, which you can upload lineart to and it creates a version of flat colours (filling the gaps where the lineart is) for quicker flatting......

Found this article about queer fat male representation in comics specifically, and brings up some good general points about rep

I also read Nimona last night! I didn't take notes on length/pacing because it's almost 300 pages long therefore not that useful to the length of mine. But it was really good, and I loved how it started as a silly, simple story, but by the end it all tied together and was a really well rounded and emotional story (I cried)

This queer comics database was just started recently, and is possibly a helpful resource! (in terms of representation stuff, not hypercomic stuff)

No Borders, No Limits:
The Infinite Canvas as a Storytelling Tool in Online Comics
and
Hyper/Comics/Con/Text:  Institutional Contexts and Interface Design in Online Educational Hypercomics


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8 different articles about queer fairytales, queer comics, feminist fairytale retellings etc - highlighted notes under cut

Norman, Don. "Affordances and Design". Don Norman: Designing For People, 2004, https://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/affordances_and.html,.


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Lev Manovich - The Language of New Media



Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c, 2000. Leonardo.

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These didn't end up being so relevant, but I grabbed a few quotes from the intros, mainly.

Nakevska, M., et al. "Interactive Storytelling in a Mixed Reality Environment: The Effects of Interactivity on User Experiences." Entertainment Computing, vol. 21, 01 June 2017, p. 97-104.

Vakulenko, Svitlana, et al. "Conversational Exploratory Search via Interactive Storytelling." 2017.

Jardim Nunes, Nuno, et al. Interactive Storytelling: 10th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2017 Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, November 14-17, 2017, Proceedings. Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2017. Lecture notes in computer science: 10690.

Distinguishing Mediality: The Problem of Identifying Forms and Features of Digital Comics

Lukas R.A. Wilde,2015



identifying different modes in specifics is less relevant than how they're used and how it's important, it's complex

talks about how infinite canvas isn't 'new' - it's a way of making historial storytelling like trajan's column, cathedral ceilings, accessible. McCloud, Bukatman

print has pages by necessity, and that has created principles of pacing, rhythm and panel delivery > connected to hyperlinks, in digital this same concept has more flexibility
-and digital comics are a new reference point that allows people to think more about the theories and properties of print comics

feature common of all webcomics i: higher degree of flexibility to choose own forms and limitations - mediality is becoming more fluid

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Exploring audience involvement with an interactive narrative: implications for incorporating  transmedia storytelling into entertainment-education campaigns

Angeline Sangalang, Jessie M. Quintero Johnson and Kate E. Ciancio
2013


This was not so relevant; is about how interactivity of games might influence people and educate them. a few highlighted bits under the cut though

Webcomics: The Influence and Continuation of the Comix Revolution

By The UF Visual Rhetoric Research Group: Sean Fenty, Trena Houp and Laurie Taylor

Fenty, Sean, Trena Houp and Laurie Taylor. "Webcomics: The Influence and Continuation of the Comix Revolution." . ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies. 1.2 (2004). Dept of English, University of Florida. 28 Apr 2018. <http://www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/archives/v1_2/group/index.shtml>.

this article is a little dated and only talks about certain kinds of webcomics, but still has some good points

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Bukatman, Scott. The Poetics of Slumberland : Animated Spirits and the Animating Spirit. University of California Press, 2012. EBSCOhost.

Alexander, Bryan. The New Digital Storytelling: Creating Narratives with New Media--Revised and Updated Edition, 2nd Edition. vol. Revised and updated edition, Praeger, 2017

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Rethinking Webcomics: Webcomics as a Screen Based Medium

Dennis Kogel

2013

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Library books

Some books I got out from the library to research. A lot of the articles I've bee reading have referenced the last three, and the first two both have chapters that sounded interesting. There were quite a few other books in the library about digital comics, but they were all quite old and more about "how you can upload image files to the internet and make a website!" and "how to colour in photoshop!" - McCloud's Reinventing Comics seems like the best digital comics book available.

BRIDGING THE GUTTER: HYBRID STORYTELLING FOR DIGITAL READERS

Caroline Campbell
November 17, 2015

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Digital comics – new tools and tropes

Daniel Merlin Goodbrey

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Digital Comics: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger?

by JOSIP BATINIC
November 21st, 2016

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Research - reading

Printed out a lot of articles on digital comics - the highlighted one is this article, which talks about the ways the digital medium has been used to enhance comics and people who've done it well, to enhance the story, or ones that are just to make it 'cool'.  It also talks about what is a comic - how far it can change and still be classed as that, as opposed to becoming an animation or game.

This is obviously a slideshow for some presentation, but it seems to be about various types of comic narrative and it's development over time and there's things I can research more into.

This is an article by Caroline Campbell about Josie and the Whales

The others are articles from the library database/google scholar; Rethinking Webomics: Webcomics as a screen based medium by Dennis Kogel and Digital comics - new tools and tropes by Daniel Merlin Goodbrey