“...when comics and screens collide, what we really get is a new kind of fundamentally musical visual storytelling...”

Space Into Game, Time Into Book:

Space Into Game, Time Into Book:

What Comics and Screens Do Together

by Erik Loyer

Made with Panoply

Presented at the Roundtable on New Technologies and the Future of the Humanities at City University of Hong Kong, 2014

A comic on a screen is a curious and confounding thing, and it’s taken a lot of experimentation, thought, and plain old trial and error to see past the screen’s first tantalizing promises to bring sequential art to life. 

“Space Into Game, Time Into Book” is a 20 minute video based on a talk originally given at the Roundtable on New Technologies and the Future of the Humanities at City University of Hong Kong, exploring what comics and screens can do together. A web version of the talk is also available.

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