back when I got the .net domain, hypercomics.com was the portfolio of another artist. If I remember right he was using Alt text in his comic strips.
Then it sat dormant for a long time and I assume he was finally bought out by a Co. who made a “build a your own webcomic” site. I wish it was still there too!
As it is Wiki, Neal, I think you could do well to update the definition. I’ve been thinking a lot about the simple yet loaded statement you made the other day that Hypercomics are comics that take advantages of the web medium that couldn’t necessarily be reproduced in print. Maybe I’m too close to web development on a daily basis, but I don’t have as much faith in what the web offers over the fundamental conventions of sequential art.
I’m interested in panels that can overlap as layers, healthy gutters that you couldn’t afford to squander in print, blank spaces for rhythm, user interaction, garza-ian animations, media files, and of course hyperlinks. But all framed by the fundamental flow of vox bubbles and panels. This is, of course, a journey I have to take for myself to “get.”
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grantthomas // July 22, 2008 at 9:27 am |
Its a shame that hypercomics.com doesn’t work. I was curious as to what that was.
nvonflue // July 22, 2008 at 10:13 am |
back when I got the .net domain, hypercomics.com was the portfolio of another artist. If I remember right he was using Alt text in his comic strips.
Then it sat dormant for a long time and I assume he was finally bought out by a Co. who made a “build a your own webcomic” site. I wish it was still there too!
Fabricari // July 22, 2008 at 3:43 pm |
As it is Wiki, Neal, I think you could do well to update the definition. I’ve been thinking a lot about the simple yet loaded statement you made the other day that Hypercomics are comics that take advantages of the web medium that couldn’t necessarily be reproduced in print. Maybe I’m too close to web development on a daily basis, but I don’t have as much faith in what the web offers over the fundamental conventions of sequential art.
I’m interested in panels that can overlap as layers, healthy gutters that you couldn’t afford to squander in print, blank spaces for rhythm, user interaction, garza-ian animations, media files, and of course hyperlinks. But all framed by the fundamental flow of vox bubbles and panels. This is, of course, a journey I have to take for myself to “get.”