![]() I don’t write the following to disagree with Murray’s thesis: indeed, mobile devices, including smartphones, have provided contexts for reading sequential art to uncover new facets to their formal elements. Sometimes when I fast-forward to a favorite scene in a movie I’ve watched a bunch, I spot camera moves that had never really registered before, because I’d been too distracted by the dialogue or performances.” ![]() I’ve sat in film classes and seminars where the professors or moderators pushed students to pay attention to sound design by switching the soundtracks for two movies or where they’ve cut the volume entirely to get us to notice the visual storytelling. “But sometimes changing the frame for a piece of art can change the way we look at it. I’ve already mentioned Adams but it’s also impossible to do a two-page Jack Kirby splash justice on a phone (or a tablet, for that matter). And a lot of the best comics art doesn’t really work in this format. There are aspects of the experience that are annoying, such as how different panel shapes and alignments leads to a lot of flipping the phone 90 degrees to get the best perspective. “I’d never contend that Guided View is superior to reading a print comic. His iPhone has technology called Guided View, which as he reads intuitively crops portions of the original comic book page (which tends to be a little bit less than the usual 8.5 by 11-inch page-more like 7 by 10.5) to just a few panels at the time to take up the full space of his phone’s screen. Murray reads the comic on his iPhone to demonstrate how the dimensions of a smartphone screen enhance some parts of the comic, sticking to only a few panels of one page as they appear on his phone-that’s it, that’s the only visual example given. Murray’s experiment centers largely around only Issue #6 (the Christmas issue) of Hawkeye (December 2012 / February 2013), published by Marvel Comics, written by Matt Fraction, illustrated David Aja, colors by Matt Hollingsworth, letters by Chris Eliopoulos. Hawkeye #6Īt The AV Club, Noel Murray writes about opportunities provided by appreciating the layout of comics when they are removed from the page and to digital e-readers, such as mobile devices like tablets and smartphones. In which I kinda disagree with Noel Murray, and whine about how Amazon and Marvel format their e-comics.
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