Going digital at the comic con

Written By Unknown on Senin, 11 Februari 2013 | 22.10

NEW DELHI: Jazyl Homavazir from Bombay has a dedicated readership of about 4,000 who await his serialized manga The Beast Legion every week. Yet, you won't find his work in any bookstore. At least not just yet. He managed to reach his readers through that great leveler - the Internet. While 4,00 follow him on Facebook, he gets another 5,000 hits on his web page. Homavazir, an animator from Mumbai, claims to be the first web-manga creator from India.

There is a whole community of comic writers and artists online who, much like bloggers, find their niche audience and put out regular content. Some of these can be found on webcomic hosting sites like smackjeeves.com, drunkduck.com and rampagenetwork.com. Deviantart.com is also fairly popular with digital art creators and functions as a social network of sorts.

If the last World Book Fair in the capital focused on ebooks, the third Comic Con India this year too has upped the ante on digital content. On the first day of the convention, Calcutta-based Dipankar Ghosh launched Comixsphere an Android app for digital comics. Readwhere.com, a website that digitizes print content managed to sell digital content for cash at both the comic con and the book fair. Sufi Comics, a web comic started by two brothers Mohammed Ali Vakil and Mohammed Arif Vakil brought out a mainstream physical book once they found popularity online.

"The market is not very welcoming for independent creators. I only got prints here to the Comic Con for sale. But intend to keep my comics for the web exclusively," says Homavazir, who is currently working on an animation series that tells the story of India's Mauryan period, done in anime.

Ghosh of Comixsphere says he had indie artists and writers in mind when he came up with the android app. "The comics medium lends itself to reading on the phone. Now you have formats for smartphone-reading where you can read one panel at a time. Creators just have to paste their content on our website and click publish to make it public. They can even price their work," says Ghosh.

Publishing digitally means changes in design as well. The usual panels flowing right to left as you turn the page need to be reworked when a reader only has the option of scrolling down. Sufi Comics, for example, has a fair number of episodes that do not feature conventional panels at all. "Luckily for us, each story was only one page long, so we could print them as is," says Mohammed Ali Vakil of Sufi Comics, who plans to keep the series going online.

Besides content created exclusively for digital consumption, digitized offline content seems to have found market too. Manish Dhingra of readwhere.com sells digitized magazines and comics online. At the comic con and the book fair, Dhingra says 15% of his sales of digital content were paid for in cash. Though he still hasn't made inroads into hosting indie comics and other kinds of indie content, he says the market definitely exists. "Now 3G has gotten popular and tablet and phone penetration is very high. All of this is coming together to make the market boom," he says. The idea clicks.


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