Panel beaters: the comic book tech revolution is here

Alan Moore’s Electricomics app liberates graphic fiction from the boundaries of the page at a tap of your iPad screen. Here’s what to expect

Readers have been promised a revolution in graphic storytelling ever since the dawn of the internet, but this week’s launch of Alan Moore’s Electricomics offers the first glimpse of a new beginning for digital comics.

Fans have been reading comics on electronic devices in increasing numbers over recent years, but until now publishers have been content to replicate the experience of the printed page. The cutting edge of innovation has been Comixology’s “guided view” technology, which blows up each panel and progresses to the next at the tap of your tablet screen.

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