Left to our own devices: iPad mania continues

February 4, 2010 | Posted by Brigid

iPad mania continues: At PWCW, Calvin Reid and Heidi MacDonald talk to comics publishers about their plans for the iPad, and at About.com, Manga Guide Deb Aoki does the same with manga publishers.

At Rocket Bomber, Matt Blind points out that the iPad doesn’t do anything new, but it makes things easy and wraps it all in cool. Simon Jones considers what effect the iPad will have on artists. And Marc Alan Fishman weighs in at ComicMix with some analogies to what iTunes did for the music industry.

Lori Henderson, on the other hand, is not impressed.

And for those who actually want to put their comics on the iPad, or other handhelds, Alex De Campi has some nuts-and-bolts advice. And she points out that Longbox, which was rumored to be part of the iPad IP stable, is out of the running because it uses Flash and the iPad doesn’t. Interesting.

Meanwhile, Yamila Abraham of Yaoi Press is disappointed that her comic Zesty was rejected without comment by the iTunes store. Zesty is a romantic adventure featuring a cheery, gay-positive hero, and it is strictly PG. YP titles are available via Kindle, but Abraham’s readers are heavy cell phone users and she thinks the iPhone is the way to go—and the Kindle app is not the best way to read comics on the iPhone.

In other news…

Down the Tubes has news of a wordless iPhone comic about the life of Jesus as well as a Shaun the Sheep comi.

Your not-comics e-book link of the day: Aaron Pressman argues that the big boys just want e-books to go away. And John Sargent, CEO of Macmillan? He’s not your friend; he only loves you for your money.

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