When talking about Understanding comics, an interesting topic brought up by Scott McCloud in his Visual Magic of Comics TED talk is the idea of viewing a monitor of a computer as not a page but as a window. He discusses that we can take advantage of the digital medium for comics by creating an infinite canvas along any axis that we'd like, and that creating our comics with this infinite space in mind can lend to the viewers experience. His examples include having circular narratives that are actually circular, having a infinite comics on the X axis, or Y axis, having turns and bends in our panels and breaking narratives that literally break into two separate story lines.
This method was used by other artists and is used by many online E-comic pages today, one example is Lezhin Comics, a webtoon portal based in Korea offering artwork and comics in English, Korea and Japanese. This website takes advantage of one of Scott's ideas, that of an infinite scrolling Y axis. This way the comics, instead of going from left to right and constantly changing pages, goes from top to bottom and always continues scrolling down from the beginning of the comics to the end. Many comics that I have enjoyed on this site take this feature of the site to their advantage, having cuts and long fades from black to white and using minimalist style to help emphasize a scene to the audience.
Scott McCloud states that the idea that he's looking for is a Durable Mutation. Something that can change how we view comics and enhance it without losing what makes them so unique. Comic books and the genre as a whole are an expansive genre and not all of it fits into the same narrative arch and panel structure. Some artists will stick true to a basic panel layout while others will do everything in their power to deviate and try to change how
the viewer takes in their work by changing the panels and the structure.
This is no different and I believe it is the next big step to
changing comics for the digital post print generations.
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