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Hello, I've also not posted in a while (btw hi Lyle, whatever happened to that whole Lo-Fi thing???) MMS sprang to mind when I saw the title of this thread, too, but as usual the Scandinavians have beaten us to it! :D My phone is a Sony T68i, which supports MMS, however I'm going to have to look int...

While I agree that a lot of the web comic work published this year out-strips (forgive the pun) some of the work on the list of nominees by a considerable margin (ouch, sorry), it's a shame that the posters on the Comicon thread linked to by Greg feel that web comics deserve their own category. I ca...

I especially like the acronym C.C.P.A/O.A.E.A.T.C.W.F.U.T.M-C.O.S.A. LOL! :smile: So <a href="http://www.davidgaddis.com/piercing.html">this,</a> <a href="http://e-sheep.com/spiders/01/">this</a> and <a href="http://www.demian5.com/">this</a> are not comics? Should we come up with a new name for al...

My contention is that comics can't be reinvented -- if you change or remove or 'reinvent' any of their defining characteristics (e.g. the page as narrative unit), they stop being comics, and a new term should be coined. The way I see it, 'sequential art' is the umbrella term and 'comics' is a subord...

I am very impressed. Nice to see someone go out on a limb and put this kind of thing into practice. I wish these guys every success -- they certainly deserve it. They've got a micropayment system in place, a sound site with nice navigation and what appears to be very high-quality content.

Sorry this news is a bit off-topic, but it's a big break-through for comics in the UK. Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid On Earth has been nominated for the Guardian First Book prize, a major literature award here in Blighty. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4244714,00.html Greg edits...

The inability to go back and re-read things is indeed slightly annoying. Having gone back to the page I've realised that what I wrote in my post above is in fact incorrect: to move forward you don't click on what's visible of the next panel (although that is possible), in fact you're supposed to cli...

Viz is a satirical quarterly comic in the UK which has been going for what must be twenty years now, and which I used to read when I was a student. In the "comics archive" on their site they've implemented an automatic scolling feature which entails clicking on what is visible of the next panel in o...

Cool! This is a very exciting project -- I particularly like the logo which Jack Masters has designed. I hope to be able to get involved somehow. An initial reservation that the cost of printing locally on so small a scale will prove prohibitively expensive, but I dare say you've been discussing tha...

I was wondering about a similar, slightly more draconian system whereby the comics wouldn't actually be visible until they were printed out. You'd have a splash page on the site giving an impression of quality of artwork and general tone, and then you'd pay to download a file which can't be viewed o...

http://www.coolbeansworld.com

Haven't signed up myself and the "preview" is rather mysterious, but they're profiled in this week's Revolution magazine (UK edition) and have people like Kevin O'Neill on board.

Martin.

Again, agreed 100%. The only way I can think of to truly de-centralize the process is if a user paid me for my content by direct online bank transfer. If you're going to have a browser/web-based micropayment system, then surely it will be centralized by definition? There will have to be a "brand", t...

So you'd dismiss the idea off hand? Creeps or no creeps, Scott, it's arguably the closest the e-commerce world has come to a functioning micropayment system. It's up and running in Germany as I write this.

Agreed, these and other objections were amongst those I raised in my discussions with this company.

Time is not the only chargeable unit possible with this system. You can also charge per download or per Kb etc -- basically anything that's measurable by a computer.

Okay, I'm new to this board and if this has already been brought up then forgive me for not reading every post :smile: I work for a big big media company and just had a call from these guys, trying to get us on board: http://www.privision.de Sorry, it's all in German, but the jist is this: Users pay...