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Infinite canvas
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The '''infinite canvas''' is the idea that the size of a digital
comics page is theoretically
infinite, and that
webcomics online comics are therefore not limited by conventional page sizes. An artist could conceivably display a complete comics story of indefinite length on a single "page". The concept was introduced by
Scott McCloud in his book ''
Reinventing Comics''.
Although McCloud asserted that this freedom was one of the most important qualities of the online comics medium, relatively few webcomics have taken advantage of it; most produce work in more traditional formats such as the
serialized
comic strip and the rectangular page, rarely exceeding two screens in height. The unpopularity of infinite canvas techniques can be attributed to a few factors: a general aversion to excessive scrolling, particularly horizontal scrolling, among online readers; the problem of long load times for large image files; and the difficulty of producing comics with very large dimensions.
In
June 2004, an application called
InfiniteCanvas (or IC) was released by student Markus Müller, attempting to provide a solution to the common problems of infinite canvas. It consists of a
Mac OS X application for creating comics, and viewers written in
Macromedia Flash and
Java (programming language) Java for online display. The introduction of InfiniteCanvas led to a resurgence in interest in the idea of infinite canvas comics, although the problem of long load times (especially over dialup links) still remains.
Artists known for their work in infinite canvas include McCloud,
Cayetano Garza,
When I Am King demian5, and
Patrick Farley.
External links
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Scott McCloud's [http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/icst/icst-4/icst-4.html I Can't Stop Thinking! #4] (from the [http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/icst/index.html series index])
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infinitecanvas.com
Category:Webcomics
Category:Infinite canvas webcomics {{PAGENAME}}
Category:Webcomic formats
Category:Digital art
