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ComicZeal: iPhone Comic Books Done Right?

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2008-11-13 05:51:50 by Charlie Sorrel in Gadget Lab
ComicZeal is another application for reading comic books on the iPhone and, despite being a little rough around the edges gets things pretty much right. Back in August we took a look at two other comic readers for the iPhone but they both failed on one essential point: They split the pages into individual frames, leaving the reader unable to...
 
Tags: comic, paper comic, real paper comic, iphone, comic readers, comic books, comics, comics direct, comiczeal
 
 
 
 
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Comedians + Comic Books = Remarkably Unfunny

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2008-06-12 12:14:31 by bohus in Retro Thing
...comic books, but when their popularity is on the wane publishers turn to other measures. There are funny comics, and there are attempts to make otherwise serious books humorous, (an approach that seldom, if ever, works). It makes sense that a publisher like DC comics might have turned to two legendary funnymen to try and inject their pulpy...
 
Tags: comic books, comic, cent comic books, comic book, book, hope, bob hope, comics, marvel comics
 
 
 
 
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Comic Books on the iPhone? No Thanks

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2008-08-26 06:18:56 by Charlie Sorrel in Gadget Lab
...comic books? Probably not, but that isn't stopping developers from having a crack at bringing the funnies to your pocket. The problem is that the iPhone's screen, while great for reading plain-text ebooks, is just a little too small for comic book pages. Part of comics' impact is the full, two-page spread which allows for spacing and pacing...
 
Tags: comic, comic books, iphone, free titles, free, clickwheel, comic book rar, clickwheel itunes, clickwheel requires
 
 
 
 
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EAs Deadspace being turned into comic book: survival horror for the obsessive

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2008-02-21 23:00:46 by Nicholas Deleon in CrunchGear
...comic book series starting next month. Personally, I know little about the game (other than whats on Wikipedia) and even less about comic books writ large. The guys behind the comic, Ben Templesmith and Antony Johnston, are famous in the comic book world (again, thank you, Wikipedia), with Templesmith being the artiste behind such works as...
 
Tags: comic book, comic book series, comic, comic book world, comic book crowd, survival horror, comic books writ, games, games universe
 
 
 
 
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4chan parodies Scott McCloud's Google Chrome comic

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2008-09-04 07:42:55 by John Brownlee in Boing Boing Gadgets
...comic was just so insufferably smug, self-important and impenetrable that we're still trying to knead out the resulting big rubbery one long enough to actually install the damn thing. And that there's no Mac version doesn't help McCloud's comic was so filled with ill-defined, meaningless technobabble that it made a complete mockery of his...
 
Tags: google chrome comic, google chrome, comic, google, valleywag, chrome comic valleywag, mccloud, scott mccloud, obvious mccloud
 
 
 
 
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Joy Of Tech's another iPhone comic goes against RIM

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2008-07-17 09:11:51 by dusanb in IntoMobile
...comic series. It's Canada-based RIM, which they seem to think will be hit hard by the latest Apple's mobile services. First they've concluded Apple's servers are overloaded. Then they commented on the Mobile Me mess. However, when they came to the AppStore, they couldn't do nothing but surrender. It's kinda funny Related Articles at...
 
Tags: iphone, comic, funny iphone comic, joy, tech, funny, mobile, comic series, mobile services
 
 
 
 
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Comic Reader Apps on iPhone? Suck.

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2008-08-26 20:03:02 by John Brownlee in Boing Boing Gadgets
...comic book reading apps for the iPhone, which goes far to explain the strange prose stylings of his collective review of a couple of iPhone comic reader apps: Is the iPhone a good platform for reading comic books?!?! Probably not, but that isn't stopping developers from having a crack at bringing the funnies to your pocket. BAM! The problem...
 
Tags: iphone, comic book pages, comic book, pages, comic books, strange prose stylings, charlie sorrel, charlie, apps
 
 
 
 
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the best way to navigate your comic collection

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2008-01-25 03:34:14 by technabob in technabob
...comic books when you can quickly find the exact one youre looking for using a wall-sized über-cool Minority Report -like user interface A project developed by Daniel Stødle and a team of PhD students from Norways University of Tromsø, this huge display wall can detect gestures to navigate through a catalog of over 3 years worth of comic...
 
Tags: comic, huge, huge display wall, display, individual comic books, display zoom, video, comic strips, video projectors
 
 
 
 
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CrunchArcade: Prototype being turned into comic book

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2008-04-16 19:34:08 by Nicholas Deleon in CrunchGear
...comic book out of it. They being DC Comics and Sierra Entertainment. Does two instances a trend make? I mean, theyre turning Deadspace into a comic book, too and all Speaking of comic books, Peter and I plan to hit the New York Comic-Con this weekend. I dont know why, per se, were going, but Im sure well find one or two things worth...
 
Tags: comic book, html table, york comic-con, flashs sake, web designers, prototype, flash, comic books, sierra entertainment