Mobile comic
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A Mobile comic is a digital comic or cartoon strip that can be purchased, downloaded, read and sometimes edited or shared with friends via mobile phones or cellphones.
Increasingly the line between digital comics, animation and games is blurring and the same appplies to their mobile counterparts as mobile comics become multimedia with sounds and interactivity.
Mobile comic content has until recently been minitiarized or adapted versions of established branded comic content. With the rise of file sharing and piracy it has been increasingly hard for publishers to control money leakage from digital/mobile comics and as such publishers (especially traditional Japanese Manga houses) have shied away from licensing digital or mobile comics. This however, has led to the rise of user-generated (independent artists) using platforms to publish and sell their work at low cost, and (for the first time in years) do so profitably.
The challenges for mobile comics creation include:
- Small screensize means as little text as possible can be included.
- Different handsets with different screensizes and technical specifications means the same java viewer will not work on all phones.
- Story telling must end within 25 frames.
Some of the key mobile comics publisher includes: - comiasia.com ( Free for all comics artist to submit their work for publishing) - fulltiltmobile.com ( Free for all comics artist to submit their work for publishing) - gocomics.com ( Producers their own mobile comics) - mobtoon.com ( Producers their own mobile comics)
