Festival2012/Submit/Responsive Web Comics

Responsive Web Comics, building an open framework for comic creators for deploying content.
CAPOW - Comics Accessible Publishing Online WebEngine
Ketan Majmudar (Freelance Developer - Spirit Quest @ketan):
Session format: (Design Challenge)

Explore ways of deploying sequential art/storytelling in the new medium of digital devices/tablets and screens.
Find solutions to typography and script direction through responsive design workflows.
Understand and craft semantic HTML in the context of sequential art / storytelling.
Think about audio and how that can play a role in webcomics and the synchronised multimedia.
Take an open source web comic Vision Machine (Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike) and see how it can be developed into a responsive web comic
Have fun and be part of something that is missing in the digital world of comics.

Take the concept of responsive design and add the complexities of comic script / writing / illustrations/colouring and apply this to the webcomic. Is it possible to create a framework/markup language or a semantic HTML that creates engaging modern digital comic storytelling and allows creators to leverage the browser.
Getting designers and developers to think up of ways to break an outdated model of thinking for paper / prit design and apply it to an industry and popular medium.
Discuss clean open solutions to problems we have faced in web design.
Try and get comic industry input into this solution and promote this as an open source project that can evolve with time.
see what can be achieved by using CSS3/HTML5 & Javascript to solve the problem

Find out interest/skill sets and attempt to create a working flow of areas to tackle.
try and isolate problems and form small groups to tackle specific objectives and then re-group.

Depends on what we come up with and if a solution can be found and deployed.

A framework that any comic creator (writer / and / or artist can use to deploy their own comic vision/story in a format that is responsive and utilises the modern browser.
Contribution and development of | the framework on github
A small core working team that continues to iterate and improve the concepts / framework / tool.
to get comic industry input and feedback.
lots of fun engaging web comics created
encourage new way of story telling through text/image through our computers.
I am discussing this project with comic creators on the web and intend to host a github open source project to continue its development

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