Comments on: Nawlz.com: a computer graphic novel for the web

By: Jim Andrews

Jim Andrews — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 04:07:23 +0000

I read somewhere a description of the iPad as a device made to consume media, not produce media.

Have you seen/heard The Gorillaz? Quite a popular band. But they’re a virtual band, mainly. If you have a look at http://youtube.com/results?search_query=gorillaz you see lots of animated music videos. I think they’ve won or been nominated for a grammy. The band exists primarily through its music videos. They’re in a graphic novel style.

Sort of like The Monkees or The Partridge Family, in that they’re primarily media creations and the music is more or less equal with the visual media manifestation. But The Gorillaz are cartoon characters.

Though they appeared on the Grammies on TV.

By: picot

picot — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:19:09 +0000

As you say, Jim, interesting layout and general design, and the navigation is very clever. Somebody’s going to make one of these that goes huge on the iPad some time soon – if it wasn’t for Apple’s aversion to Flash, we’d probably be there already. It’s much less of an effort for readers of graphic novels to make the transition to multi-media literature – they’re already halfway there, being used to a combination of text and images – than it is for lovers of traditional printed literature. But to say this is an oversimplification, of course: it’s not as if lovers of printed literature never read the comics, and it’s not as if comic-lovers never read traditional printed literature; there’s considerable overlap between the two.

- Edward