Some more links…some more talk of MURDERDROME
As I said in the last post, we’re getting some serious interest - we’ve been emailed by creators and publishers alike with the intent of becoming a distribution source for their material. This is because the digital format we’re pioneering (codenamed Kirby while it was in development) will open up comics to a whole new set of readers as well as ushering in new models for distribution.
Q. Why not scan a whole page and use the pinch-zoom feature?
A. Pinch-zoom-scroll-scroll-scroll down and back and left-scroll-scroll-scroll-repeat ad nauseum.
Top British comic creators Al Ewing and PJ Holden have developed an iphone version of their new comics project Murderdrome.
Quietly, these guys are leading a revolution in the distribution of anglophone comics. This may not seem like such big news now, but in a few years time, when we all get our comics from iTunes, it might be “hey, remember that little comic by those two 2000AD guys that started all this?”
With the possibilties on display in the video, this could be a great app for reading comic books on your iPhone, as well as for creating rich and unique comic book content especially for the iPhone. As a cartoonist and a comic book lover (and a rabid iPhone user), I’m pretty excited about this one!
Take a look at this video. It is staggering. It is Apple Insanely-Great staggering. It is an absolute breakthrough in the field of electronic comic books. I can’t say enough about how radical and breakthrough this is. Look!!!
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They’ve gone beyond anything I could have imagined. I salute you! You have taken my breath away! You will change the world!
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It is a work of genius, seriously. It is revolutionary. And like I said in a msg to Blue Pilot, I wish this had been around in the 1970s and Jack Kirby’s Fourth World was on it. I would have been able to peel away Frank Giacoia’s terrible inks from Kirby’s wonderful pencils (thank God Mike Royer came in!).
Gotta admit, I’m really proud of homeboy P.J. Holden: he may just have created a revolutionary way for comics to be distributed. All these years writing about how we need an iTunes for comics, and it turns out to be iTunes itself (basically).
Tags: buzz, excitement, murderdrome
