For some reason, it led to the blogger declaring paper comics obsolete, adding: \u2018No longer are you accidentally viewing a frame or two ahead because of the nature of multi-panel pages; you’re actually able to see it panel-by-panel \u2014 just like the artists originally created it\u2019. And this is coming from a comic fan.<\/p>\n
Now, please, buy a copy of McCloud\u2019s Understanding Comics<\/a> or Eisner\u2019s Comics And Sequential Art<\/a> and you\u2019ll see that the space between panels (the so-called gutter) and the positioning of panels on a page are what makes a comic a comic. They are the, in part, the language of this art form.<\/p>\n Breaking up a comic page into separate, isolated panels destroys at least part of the experience of reading a comic. Just imagine having to read Watchmen panel-by-panel. *shudder*<\/p>\n At the same time, Uclick\u2019s approach makes it impossible for itself to include comics which actively play with panel size or shape, overlapping panels or a lack of panels. This in and of itself is prove enough that a panel-by-panel approach to reproducing comics is just nonsense. It may work with some comics (and Uclick apparently works with the comic\u2019s creators to make a panel-by-panel version), but it utterly fails with many more.<\/p>\n Now, I do not have an iPhone but I have tried to read digitized versions of paper comics on my laptop(s), Nokia N95 and PSP and it usually is a horrible experience. From what I\u2019ve read, Uclick does not change this, nor does it make traditional comics obsolete.<\/p>\n Instead, it changes, even destroys hem at their core, leaving ‘blood in the gutter’, to use McCloud’s title for his chapter on the importance of panels.<\/p>\n But hey, there\u2019s no stopping apple fanboys<\/a> in believing in its merits anyway.<\/p>\n Finally, a new blog entry. I\u2019m such a bad blogger. I simply had to say something about this blog post about the Uclick for the iPhone. Uclick basically offers comics for sale on the iPhone, switching the page-by-page format of comic books for a panel-by-panel approach so each panel fits the screen. For some reason, … <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/io9\/2009\/02\/Bone_UClick_Comic.jpg\")
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