Paradigm Flux was my first foray into interactive comics online. Written by Steve Casares with the idea of interactivity in mind, the story was a sci-fi adventure/espionage story with branching narrative threads. In his 2001 paper “An examination of webcomics using McLuhan’s four laws of media” comic scholar Daniel merlin Goodbrey wrote: Creators Steve Casares …
It took a while to find all the loose files that make up this comic, originally published at the end of 2001. But now this quirky little parable is back online. I remember being influenced by Scott McCloud’s “trails,” used to great visual effect in his early comic Porphyria’s Lover. Many of the Halycon comics feature these same visual …
The Halcyon Years was a series of short infinite canvas comics, some of which included early experiments with interactive elements. This piece was the third installment in the series, from 2001. Some of the early Halcyons were based on dreams, this one included. You can read the comic here.
The Halcyon Years was a series of short infinite canvas comics, some of which included early experiments with interactive elements. This installment was a typical vertical scroller, but it was constructed in reverse like the previous HY installment “Go Figure”. I came across some lovely photos at abandoned-places.com and started to use Poser to constructs scenes …
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The Halcyon Years was a series of short infinite canvas comics, some of which included early experiments with interactive elements. This particular episode was a straight forward comic, though it was produced backwards. I began by drawing random pictures of clowns, then created a narrative structure to tie the images together. It’s a method I’ve …
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