Comics legend Joe Kubert talks about digital comics, both reading comics digitally as well as creating them digitally. For more videos go to thecomicarchive.com
I have to say that I am personally really excited about the possibilities of digital comics. Not just translating the print experience to an iPad, but something unique to the format.
I spend $699.00 on a Cintiq Pro 16 and hardly use it. Nothing beats Bristol Board, pencils, eraser and a set of Windsor-Newton markers. I do color a lot on a computer as Joe does, but I still use my mouse. The Cintiq is leaning up against the wall with an inch of dust on it.
I'm resisting using Bristol board, but mostly because I'm keen to composite the final pages on the computer, not because I'm drawing in digital(like Joe says, it just isn't pleasant - the computer lags a little behind the pen and reinterprets everything I'm doing). I don't even want to do digital color, I'm settling on a little treatment with Tombow Dual Brush in monochrome. Crescent Rendr is the paper I'm settling on - smooth enough, erases well, it lets me work in a square 8"x8" sketchbook format which I like(easy to do detailed panels and pasteups), and the sheets are a patented glue sandwich of paper-plastic-paper, so it's pretty rigid and the plastic blocks any bleed or see-through, which is a nice convenience.
I have crates of comic books that I don’t read anymore. For some reason I really enjoy reading comics on my tablet right now. Maybe later I’ll want to go back to paper.
I can see colorizing get done mostly on a computer after the actual artwork is done, however "everything " done on a computer?? That's just self masturbation !
doing comics with computer is fine, but I will never read a comic made in this way, the real ink and paper have nuances that cannot be reproduced....so why using the computer...same thing is for movies that use CGI....practical effects are unbeatable.
