Since we were on stage showing off our comic reader experiment we did last week I think its only appropriate to call out that today, May 5th, is Free Comic Book Day… http://www.freecomicbookday.com/sponsors.asp

Im gonna rustle up some neighbor kids and take them down to our local shop and see what we can find.

I was pretty excited when I got to the airport on Wednesday to fly home and I saw Arturo Toledo reading comic books at the gate.

A great write up on our talk at http://www.tcj.com/journalista/?p=348

A couple of unfair statements but overall somebody who is as passionate about this as we are.

One hard quote is “Dunlap and Ingebretsen make it sound as though they were among the first people to come up with the idea of digital versions of comic book; far from being leading-edge in the matter, however, they’re actually eating vapor trails.;”…. Fortunately all the sessions are available online so you can clearly hear us say that we dont feel like we are doing anything innovative here.

Really the major motivation was to create a comic reader that took advantage of WPF platform benefits like hardware acceleration and XAML support. I think we did that and I think the reading experiences is all the better because of it.

We worked really hard to make sure we maintained a consistently high frame rate for our animations while supporting very high resulotion artwork that can scale across multiple media types. Something that I havent seen in the other CBR and CBZ readers. No real magic here… We just figured out how to use the BitmapScalingQuality features of WPF at the right time.

Great conversation about the business model in this post… Honestly we dont have much to say about this…yet. Agenda #1 is done (Mix 07) and now we are on to figuring out where we go next with this project. Im hoping we do something because it would be sweet to keep working with the comic book industry and helping to forward a group of artists that I have immense respect for.

I will keep yall updated on comic book happenings and will be categorizing my posts under “comics”. We will have an aggregated Comics feed at http://blog.identitymine.com/blogs/comics soon too. (Check out the post about how we created artwork for IdentityMen that is already there)