Motion Comics

Pass Me the Giggle Water, Old Chap. These Motion Comics Are the Cat's Meow…

John Paczkowski in News on February 11, 2009 at 8:23 am PT

There’s “a new form of interactive storytelling” emerging on iTunes: motion comics. Treading water somewhere between comic strips and animated cartoons, they add spoken dialogue and Ken-Burns-effect-style animation to comic book panels, and comics icon Marvel Entertainment is about to get into them in a big way. Later this spring, the company will begin peddling Spider-Woman and Astonishing X-Men motion comics on iTunes.

Pass Me the Giggle Water, Old Chap. These Motion Comics Are the Cat’s Meow…

John Paczkowski in News on February 11, 2009 at 8:23 am PT

There’s “a new form of interactive storytelling” emerging on iTunes: motion comics. Treading water somewhere between comic strips and animated cartoons, they add spoken dialogue and Ken-Burns-effect-style animation to comic book panels, and comics icon Marvel Entertainment is about to get into them in a big way. Later this spring, the company will begin peddling Spider-Woman and Astonishing X-Men motion comics on iTunes.