Whos doing neat stuff with the web and comics?
Cyanide and Happiness produce Flash-animated comics once a month or so. Also, their standard comics occasionally feature .gif animations. I also wanted to point out that the extra jokes in Dinosaur Comics aren’t just in the image’s alt text, but in each RSS item’s title and in the “Subject” field when you click to email a comment — definitely something you can’t do in newsprint.
Request Comics works on the idea that the comics are created off of ideas people submit via e-mail or the web form. Though paper only comics do that too, I suppose, with reader submissions by snail-mail.
Check out Apocamon The same guy did some other comics that would only work on the web, like a comic that was really long, so you just kept scrolling right, but his site has gone.
While not bells-and-whisle-y in terms of interactivity, etc. I always found how Korean webcomics developed to be interesting. There’s no flash or anything super particular involved, they just simply changed the formatting of the comics to be read in a scroll down fashion to escape the constraints of panel-based comics on the web. As a result, if you don’t use high speed internet it takes a while to load a comic since the image/images can be large, but I hypothesize that for Korean webcomic artists, this wasn’t even part of their list of concerns since most of the country is wired through high speed connections. This might be more difficult to do in a country where connection speed is spottier. It doesn’t sound like much, but when you notice how artists place text and images or even use things like image sizing, etc. to create pacing and timing, there’s a lot of thought put into the editing process to create a flowing down effect. With some of the better artists it’s sometimes almost ci
