The iPad screen is just short of ten inches on the diagonal. The Standard American Comic Book measures 17 x 26cm (6 ? × 10 ¼-inches), which comes to 12.2-inches on the diagonal. That’s a lot closer than any other hi-resolution, slab-like media viewer.
The people behind Panelfly, the highly regarded comic book viewer for the iPhone, have noticed this and have announced that an iPad-optimized version will be available at the device’s launch. It looks gorgeous.
There are plenty of apps on the app store for reading comics, but you have to be pretty much a real comic nerd to use them on such a small screen, despite the neat, panel-by-panel navigation in Panelfly and others. Now, with the iPad, we expect these apps to explode, and with them the catalog depth that is still lacking. Marvel and others will surely be all over selling content this way.
One of the big [...]
Excerpt from original post by Charlie Sorrel and software by Elliott
