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I redesigned the dotComics, and encorportated a lot of the suggestions made here. The Wagon #1 and Eden's Trail both use the new format. An undocumented feature: Use Spacebar to advance & left & right arrow keys to go forward and backwards pages. Aside from obvious redesign new features include: Abi...

If it is possible to change the line art into a vector graphic via Adobe Streamline and then color it in Illustrator, why is the coloring done on Photoshop? vince For print, artwork is not converted to Vector. So Photoshop is used, because Bitmap based images support effects that vector based don't...

I think they are great... I also think it is great the creator is here talking about it. My pleasure... its nice being able to talk about this... not alot of people like to talk about these things. ...Though I did notice that my eyes got tired after looking at them for a while, but I suppose this m...

Can you convert scanned line art into a vector graphic and still keep the original line variation, style, etc.? Vince Yup, I've done this quite sucessfully using Adobe Streamline http://www.adobe.com/products/streamline/main.html It is a fantastic program that is a few years old... I really wish th...

Recently I redesigned the dotComics and encorporated some of the suggested changes. It is a big difference visually, and I look forward to hearing what people think. The thing about Flash that is so nice in regard to doing comics online centers around the lettering. The process of creating a comic h...

Any comments/tips/tutorials are welcome ! :D If you know photoshop and illustrator go with Flash... flash is nice cause its vector based, which means you could use adobe streamline to convert your graphics to vector, color in illustrator, and letter it in illustrator, then you have an image that is...

Although Stan Lee dot Com had a lot of other problems that were unrelated to comics or technology. Would have been interesting to see how it might have worked had some of the people behind it (not Stan) been more reliable and less shifty. I actually liked what they were doing on stanlee.com even if...

You know, any Flash with real scripting abilities (which I believe would be Flash 4 and onward) should be able to handle some sort of bookmarking thing. Actually Flash MX encorporates some type of bookmarking feature. I say, Go, Macromedia, go! No, I'm not getting payed to say that... not that I wo...

The problem with this argument is that while digital space is effectively unlimited, the browser and viewer protocols that determine how that space is viewed has some very definitive limits -- which is why I argued in the "internet issue" of The Comics Journal that format, not bandwidth is what car...

Have you considered cutting the panels apart and stringing them along in a single direction? Interesting idea but it wouldn't work. We have a problem with some books cause of the way they are laid out... no way we could get any consistency to do that. BTW I can't spell to save my life... fair warni...

I think it's great you showed up to defend yourself, Johnnystorm :D My pleasure It's actually the thing the industry of online comics needs: cross-culture contact between what's happening at both ends of the economic scale: I met one of the creators of Crossgen's digital comics at the Philly-Con, w...

Curse Macromedia! Curse them! Well... if it weren't for Macromedia I'd be a QuarkXPress monkey :) And Macromedia did add some sort of anchoring system in Flash MX, I still haven't looked at it much lately but I think they took the bookmark complaint to heart. If you are at all curious, i've been re...

This is a perfect example of something that while looks cool, doesn't really work well... I really have a problem with this type of set up simply cause all I want to do is click on the icon in the middle, and it keeps moving out of the way.

I would suggest however that when the panels pop up to read that you make the background black instead of the panels over the whole page.

Yeah, we realize this is a problem and have done it on certain titles but not all... working on getting that across the board.

Once I get past my overall objection to the format, the interface itself is pretty usable, but I do think that the format itself is fundamentally flawed and in this case the interface is a clear case of function following form. Now I do realize that this format may be a directive from Marvel to you...

But the IP space is (effectively if not literally) an unlimited resource. Marvel can publish a thousand or ten thousand or a hundred thousand titles online and it will have no effect on your ability to log into Nowhere Girl or E-Sheep or (more to the point) Modern Tales. It isn't server space that ...

I created Marvel's dotComics (lowercase d uppercase C)

Hm. OK, I'll grant them that- They invented a poor interface.

What makes you say that?

• dotComics are Flash Based
  the size is dicated by filesize and by browser size, but the pop up window is resizable