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Tom Richmond has an informative post about motion comics on his MAD! blog, covering various approaches at adding motion and sound to already-drawn comics. While if taken from a purists’ point of view these seem like aberrations of the comics medium, some work better than others and the explorations are intriguing. He’s right that these experiments are in an early or transitional stage, so we’ll see how they evolve and develop.

In addition to these, iVerse has a Comic Reader now ready for the iPhone. My friend, Alex Grecian’s Image comic, Proof has been adapted for the application, the first couple issues available at iTunes (#1 for free). Here’s a quick demo of how it works:

I find this to be a more pure method, because one is still reading the comic themselves, not reading along while someone is speaking parts, augmented by sound effects and/or music. It’s still comics, but in a different format.

Regardless of which (if any) someone prefers, it can’t be a bad thing for comics to be available to people in many forms. Why not? Give ‘em a try.