iPhone comics

Since very early after the iPhone's release there has been various types of comics and graphic novels available for the iPhone. Comixology was one of the first to offer these and was able to offer a comic book reading platform which worked for several titles instead of being a company specific reader.

In the same way that companies release tie-in comics when a big film/game is being released, the same was being done with iPhone comics. Titles were being made sporadically but usually only when there was a movie to tie in with such as 'Watchmen' or 'Scott Pilgrim'.

Smaller companies started to bring out comics for the iPhone which were created for that purpose or for characters who's rights were in the public domain such as Sherlock Holmes..

Over the last two years the larger companies such as Marvel, DC and IDW have seen the possibilities and have released their own comics for the iPhone and iPad, normally with their own comic reader.

I intended to adapt my own graphic novel for the iPhone and this meant that I needed to think about the scale and how the interface would be.

I decided that the screen would normally show one frame at a time to allow for clearer views as the art and lettering would be lost if I left them at normal page size.

The reader would scroll through until they reached the choice screen and at that point would tap the screen on the animal form which would take them to the appropriate route/ending.