Ingenious Tilting Comic Opens a Window to Another World - ComicsAlliance | Comics culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews

The idea is really cool. Making a comic book interactive by making the user's reading experience change as the device orientation changes. I want one!

Since comics first moved to the internet, there's been a lot of discussion about how the digital world could potentially change the way people make and read comics. A new iPad and iPhone comic titled "The First Witch" is trying a new experiment: using the screen as a window into the comic book world, where the scene changes as you physically move your device around.

The comic was written and drawn by Karrie Fransman and created by Jonathan Plackett, who explained that the comic "uses the accelerometer in iStuff to create a new reading experience. Tilting the device changes the part of the comic you're looking at, giving the appearance of looking through a window into the scene." 

Ingenious Tilting Comic Opens a Window to Another World - ComicsAlliance | Comics culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews

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