Optimizing comics content for a seamless user experience across platforms.

1. MODULAR COMICS 2.0
Optimizing comics content for a seamless user experience across platforms.
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2. PROBLEM
Creating content for one medium to repurpose for
another diminishes the user experience in the receiving
medium.
๏ Repurposing print comics for web and mobile
crops content awkwardly and inconsistently.
๏ Repurposing web comics for mobile crops
content awkwardly and are sometimes not
standard print dimensions.
๏ Repurposing digital comics for print limits layout
options.
๏ Repurposing animated reveals in digital comics
creates panel redundancy or omitted content in
print.
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3. PARAMETERS
Panels, screens and pages all tell stories via a rectangular
viewing area.
๏ Use mobile screen viewing and panning as the
basis for an easy reading experience.
๏ Story beats should take advantage of the
viewable area of a landscape mobile screen and
use it for directed storytelling (users should not
need to pinch, zoom, or manually explore
panels).
๏ The mobile view should follow the direction
that readers’ eyes would take on a printed page.
๏ Do not create panels or beats that necessitate
turning the mobile device.
๏ Do not create animated reveals in digital comics
using the same panel unless they are markedly
different and contribute to the story’s pace.
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4. SOLUTION
Page layouts that are optimal for both digital landscape
and portrait print view.
poststarboy.com MODULAR COMICS 2.0 @kwanzer

5. SOLUTION
Page layouts that are optimal for both digital landscape
and portrait print view.
poststarboy.com MODULAR COMICS 2.0 @kwanzer

6. SOLUTION
Page layouts that are optimal for both digital landscape
and portrait print view.
poststarboy.com MODULAR COMICS 2.0 @kwanzer

7. SOLUTION
Page layouts that are optimal for both digital landscape
and portrait print view.
poststarboy.com MODULAR COMICS 2.0 @kwanzer

8. SOLUTION
Page layouts that are optimal for both digital landscape
and portrait print view.
poststarboy.com MODULAR COMICS 2.0 @kwanzer

9. SOLUTION
Page layouts that are optimal for both digital landscape
and portrait print view.
poststarboy.com MODULAR COMICS 2.0 @kwanzer

10. SOLUTION
Page layouts that are optimal for both digital landscape
and portrait print view.
poststarboy.com MODULAR COMICS 2.0 @kwanzer

11. SOLUTION
Page layouts that are optimal for both digital landscape
and portrait print view.
poststarboy.com MODULAR COMICS 2.0 @kwanzer

12. SOLUTION
Page layouts that are optimal for both digital landscape
and portrait print view.
poststarboy.com MODULAR COMICS 2.0 @kwanzer

13. SOLUTION
Page layouts that are optimal for both digital landscape
and portrait print view.
poststarboy.com MODULAR COMICS 2.0 @kwanzer

14. SOLUTION
Page layouts that are optimal for both digital landscape
and portrait print view.
poststarboy.com MODULAR COMICS 2.0 @kwanzer

15. SOLUTION
Page layouts that are optimal for both digital landscape
and portrait print view.
poststarboy.com MODULAR COMICS 2.0 @kwanzer

16. SOLUTION
Page layouts that are optimal for both digital landscape
and portrait print view.
poststarboy.com MODULAR COMICS 2.0 @kwanzer

17. SOLUTION
Page layouts that are optimal for both digital landscape
and portrait print view.
poststarboy.com MODULAR COMICS 2.0 @kwanzer

18. SOLUTION
Page layouts that are optimal for both digital landscape
and portrait print view.
poststarboy.com MODULAR COMICS 2.0 @kwanzer

19. SOLUTION
Page layouts that are optimal for both digital landscape
and portrait print view.
poststarboy.com MODULAR COMICS 2.0 @kwanzer

20. SOLUTION
Page layouts that are optimal for both digital landscape
and portrait print view.
poststarboy.com MODULAR COMICS 2.0 @kwanzer

21. BENEFITS
๏ The user experience is similar across all mediums.
๏ Each medium is used more effectively.
๏ Content is more easily repurposed between mediums.
๏ Less time is spent on conversion of content to each platform.
๏ More layout options are available for authors.
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22. CONCLUSION
YAY, DIGITAL COMICS!
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