{"id":2214,"date":"2010-09-06T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T08:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/?p=2214"},"modified":"2010-09-05T21:00:25","modified_gmt":"2010-09-05T20:00:25","slug":"comics-cubed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/2010\/09\/comics-cubed\/","title":{"rendered":"Comics, Cubed"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my last post I looked at how handmade zines could be made in ways that were impossible to recreate digitally, which led me to discover a handful of comics that exist in three dimensions.<\/p>\n

Warren Craghead’s\u00a0 “A sort of Autobiography”<\/a> is a comic spanning ten StoryCubes, each detailing a decade of his life, and possible future life. Its interesting that this was reviewed as a comic in its own right by Warren Peace, despite being hosted online by Diffusion, rather then distributed in print.<\/p>\n

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“Pandora’s Box”<\/a> by Ken Wong, retells the Greek Myth on a cube which readers must open to continue the story.<\/p>\n

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Contending with the rise in popularity of web comics, and the theory of the “infinite canvas” (i.e the size of a digital comics page is theoretically infinite, allowing an artist to display a complete comics story of indefinite length on a single page),\u00a0 these works make use of space, a concept that can be imitated, but not recreated, on a computer screen. Whilst web comics allow readers to digitally interact, readers can physically<\/em> interact with and manipulate three-dimensional comics; an entirely different reading experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my last post I looked at how handmade zines could be made in ways that were impossible to recreate digitally, which led me to discover a handful of comics that exist in three dimensions. Warren Craghead’s\u00a0 “A sort of Autobiography” is a comic spanning ten StoryCubes, each detailing a decade of his life, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[26,340,19],"class_list":["post-2214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-making","tag-comics","tag-making","tag-storycubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2214"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2243,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214\/revisions\/2243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}