Comics on mobile aren’t just proving popular in Japan: translations of strips first published on ROK Comics (http://www.rokcomics.com) for China have proven very popular over the past two months.

What we’re also finding is that mobile comics are proving popular even in a countries where there is no traditional print-based or web comic industry, and mobile reaches far more people than even web comic creators reach via PC delivery.

Webcomics creators I’ve talked to argue a hardcore fan set of a couple of thousand readers is enough to turn a profit online (largely through sales of strip-related merchandise such as collections, t-shirts etc.) so the potential revenues are strong.

Delivering comics on mobile in the West is achievable - we’ve been doing that for over a year - but creators and publishers do need to take on board the creative challenges imposed by small screen delivery.

Webcomics is certainly the way ahead. What with Asian economies doing good in recent times and Inida and China emerging as technology centers of the world.

Very cool idea being able to read comics through a mobile platform. The creative challenges mentioned in John’s posting are reduced by using proprietary compression techniques, as in our mobile website builder.

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