What Can Publishers Learn from Digital Comic Books?
Early CGM efforts have shown that simply adapting the print medium directly to digital can lessen the author's or artist's original intent. Along the way, however, new storytelling techniques are emerging from the nature of the new, interactive digital canvas. Ideally, of course, as Scott points out, the strengths of both print and digital will be enhanced in a new, hybrid form.
John Parsons (john@intuideas.com), former Editorial Director of The Seybold Report, is an independent writer, ghostwriter, and editor. He is the co-author of the interactive printed textbook, Introduction to Graphic Communication, on the art, science and business of print, which has been adopted by Ryerson, Arizona State, the University of Houston, and many other schools and vocational training centers. Custom editions of the book are under consideration by major printing companies and franchises for internal training purposes.