Sly Mongoose: A Responsive Comic

Responsive Comics Pablo Defendini @pablod 28 October 2011 Books in Browsers

For print comics, the page is thecanvas: immutable, fixed and finite.

Digital comics as they stand now are static adaptations of print comics.

The mechanisms devised inorder to compensate for sizedifferences between print and screen often undermine the intent of the storytellers.

On a screen, layout is fluid, and can change depending on device. iPhone iPad Kindle Fire 13" Laptop

Web designers have addressed this problem via responsive designtechniques, most notably media queries.

What if...?

...we employed responsive techniques tocreate comics specifically for the screen? iPhone iPad 13" Kindle Fire Laptop

My comic. Let me show you it**live proof-of-concept atwww.defendini.com/bib

On the iPhone:

On a 7" tablet

On the iPad

As a fixed-layout EPUB

Under the hood...

Localization.

Gracias. Sly Mongoose Written by Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell Translated by Mila Aponte González @marginaliaferozDrawn, designed and coded by Pablo Defendini @pablod

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