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Any secret method to late prebook for us boarders? 

I stupidly didn't prebook a ticket.

Anyone with experience of last year - should I be getting there early so they don't sell out at the door?

Anyone know the door price for a weekend ticket?

Gagh.. Lift, welcome to a lift... Swine..

That would be excellent! I'll take you up on that if you're sure. (the lift, not the ride  )

I should definitely go to this.

Anyone able to suggest a cheap place to book for accom for the Saturday night?

Or maybe I should just get the train back to Swansea (achievable with pints in?)

http://youtu.be/5hYi350ap_M

http://magicalgametime.com/post/41366415973/magical-game-time-vol-1

Download the entire collection of Magical Game Time comics in one massive 139 page PDF for whatever you're willing to pay! This PDF also includes unfinished comics, sketches, character drawings and pretty much every video game related comic that I've done to date.

Note: PDFs don't play animated gifs—so these comics are motionless!

All of the comics in this collection are larger than what you get online and formatted to look beautiful on an iPad or other tablet device.

BUY IT HERE! ($1 Min.)

Every purchase helps...

Earlier this week, I experienced a pretty sizable financial setback when my old computer dropped dead on me out of the blue. I lost some files (including some of the most recent comics), some time, and most of all some cold hard cash.

By purchasing this PDF, you're not only getting something cool to read but also helping me get right back to doing what I love doing...making comics!

Which reminds me! I also have a store!

Thanks!

- Zac

His animated gif comics are really great - and they do lose something when flattened for PDF - but if you pay under a quid (one dollar) or more he can get a new PC and get back to making more and posting them online for free.

I can get to that shonen jump page but any link I click on from it shoves me to that redirect page I linked.

I did manage to sign up with the log in pop up on the sj page, but when I got the confirmation email, the link to confirm my email address went to the redirect page too!   

Ah well. Worth a try.  The sampler will probably show up on some torrent site.

Would be good if they can sort a UK license, sounds like good value (like Double Barrel, but neither of the stories in that clicked with me so I didn't buy past the first issue)

WEEKLY SHONEN JUMP #53 - Giving this a shot. As a rule Shonen manga has never particularly appealed to me. Its all a bit samey. But... the digital edition (the only edition actually) is only a $1 a (weekly) issue. And has nearly 200 pages of content. That is an insane value. So I figure its worth trying it. Also a new series just started, One-Punch Man, which is about a super-hero who is frustrated about the fact that he beats every villain he comes across with just one-punch.  Could be fun.

I keep getting redirected to http://www.viz.com/apps?rd=vm on their site. Anyone else having this problem? Maybe something to do with them not having the uk license.

I'll be cheeky and throw in two of my own shorts 
Not scifi but have the twist.

The Message (posted on the boards before)
http://vimeo.com/23157833

Spitfire (music video, but has a narrative, sort of)
http://vimeo.com/41607580


Check out the Everything Animated channel on vimeo
http://vimeo.com/channels/everythinganimated
Hit and miss because of the sheer volume of short animations they post, but all of fairly high quality. Every now and then you'll be blown away by something.

@Bolt-01

Do you think you will ever put the new FQP releases up as digital dls at the same time/soon after the print versions?

I'd buy them 

Have a look at http://society6.com

Haven't used them myself - just spotted them through http://henrytheworst.tumblr.com/

http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail.nhn?titleId=350217&no=20&weekday=tue

Has to be viewed in a javascript enabled browser for the effect to work

I forgot to add my some of my favourite examples of scrolling comics - Ryan Andrews & Emily Carroll

http://www.ryan-a.com/comics/index.htm

http://emcarroll.com/comics/faceallred/01.html


@Dandontdare
There can still be cliffhangers within scrolling comics as the reader controls the scroll.  And of course there are the built in "page turns" of the NEXT button, as mentioned.

@Mandroid

Basically more uniform panels (although spreads equivalent to a row of panels are there and work well, and I can imagine different sized panels would work okay as long as they retain the same height) and they're not broken up into pages. In short it's focussing on the panels specifically rather than the page down into panel format.

From the examples I gave above, yes, the authors  stuck with fairly conventional panel layouts.  The vertical format does give room for experimentation with new techniques not possible in other formats though.  See this comic for example: http://comicpanda.com/episode/354

I'll admit, I find it a bit getting used to, as everything looks a lot more busy, but I can see it working well on computer/tablet where you can rarely see the entire page on screen anyway. (At least not in a way that's readable.) I can imagine it making things a bit easier for creators too not being slaved to thinking in terms of pages but I imagine there would be other challenges, as now the graphical 'group unit'* is the row.

What were you viewing them on?  I've been using the iPad and find that I vary between using vertical or horizontal viewing dependant on the comic (or sometimes just my mood or the way I'm sitting).  I just read through Bodyworld last night and over the course of the comic viewed it both ways.  In this specific example, his page unit (as he has saved the images) is usually 12 panels - 4 tiers of 3 - though when the pages are loaded the breaks are not visible. Depending on your level of zoom, you can comfortably read it with the full 12 in view.  A little more zoom and viewing nine panels at a time fills the screen fully.  Viewing in Horizontal, at a much larger zoom, you might only read one tier at a time.  Depending on the intensity of the story, the reader may scroll an entire "page set" (as dictated by their zoom/orientation) or just scroll a tier at a time.

The lettering will often be a big factor in choosing a comfortable level of zoom for reading.



Another example of scrolling comics:
http://oldcityblues.com/social_call.html

The author used to release all his issues in this format but has since changed to issuu online pdfs.  I hate reading those, but he also offers free pdfs and cbrs

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2012/08/comic-panda-offers-satisfying-chunks-of-webcomics-in-a-vertical-format

Remember that scary Korean webcomic that everyone was passing around about a year ago?

Webcomics are huge in Korea, and now a new site, Comic Panda, has launched that brings some elements of the Korean model to the United States. While it offers free hosting for any webcomics creator, the site is particularly looking for episodic stories that can be read in big chunks in a vertical-scrolling format, like that scary comic. This is a little different from the standard webcomics model here, with its daily or thrice-weekly single-page updates.

I poked around the site a bit and found the vertical-scrolling format is pretty easy to read; I had previously encountered it on the Korean-owned site NetComics, and of course Dash Shaw uses it in Bodyworld. Still, looking at the site raised some questions for me, and fortunately Comic Panda's Chris Klein was ready with some answers.

This looks really interesting.

I've only had a quick browse of the site and none of the strips have really caught my interest, but I find the scrolling format is a really nice way to read comics on the ipad or pc.

ComicPanda's approach of free-for-everyone, creator-owned hosting alongside developed content is commendable.  I'd love to see this venture do well.

For some great comics in scrolling format have a look at
Bodyworld (as mentioned in the article) http://www.dashshaw.com/prelude.html
and Study Group Comics http://studygroupcomics.com/main/

And check out this article that looks at the effect of adapting "Secret Voice" from print to scrolling format.
http://www.tcj.com/study-group-comics/

Did anyone find a page? I got lost in the woods straight away!

Creepy though...