Mobile Comics : Comics’ Design features focusing on small screen devices

• Autor(a) principal: Presser, Alexandra
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Braviano, Gilson, Côrte-Real, Eduardo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.11/7040
• topic: Design; Webcomics; Mobile comics; Small screen devices; Quadrinhos digitais; Dispositivos de tela pequena

Webcomics has a_racted increasing interest in academic studies, which is driven by the demand for this type of content distributed over the internet. This is potentialized when considering its reading in small screens, due to the popularization of this type of mobile devices. However, there is some concern amongst comic artists revolving the design of their works, focusing on reading on these small screen devices, with different visual characteristics. Thus, the present article seeks to understand what differs mobile comics from classic comics, and in what form these characteristics contribute to the reading experience. Ten characteristics were identified, based on an analysis of content platiorms for webcomics available on the Internet, ranging from the best use of vertical screens, infinite screen reading and breathing areas, to small groupings of frames, such as narrative units, allowing the identification of a possible new subgenre of comics.