A group of US cartoonists have formed Fulltiltmobile, a website designed to sell their comics for people to read on smartphones…”Users may download the comics to their computers and then transfer the files to their Nokia Series 60 Smartphones using Bluetooth or other means.”
While this does get around the problems associate with different carriers, an ideal solution would be for the cartoons to be automatically delivered daily to the phone…although bandwidth charges could be a problem.
To get around the pointlessness of downloading a single cartoon to your computer and transfering it to your phone the company are offering “books” of “17 or more gags by four cartoonists in four different categories” for $2, with a new issue being released each week. I think that’s a good price point, but I just wonder why they don’t offer the same package to view on the computer…maybe its a DRM thing. I think it will be good if a carrier offered this package without bandwidth charges, but of course they’d take half the revenue.
The article indicates the people involved have some lofty goals…
Reaching people around the globe is the goal of Full Tilt Mobile. “Comic panels are like little windows looking in on real life, and any humor is funniest when it is true,” said Dawn Douglass, president of Full Tilt Features. Indeed, comic strips provide unique insights, more modest than television or movies. “What better way for cultures to truly learn about each other than through the universal appeal of humble comics?” said Douglass.
There are plans to translate the cartoons into other languages, as well as to translate foreign cartoons into english…I found a few archives on the web (such as of Red Chile Moon, pictured) and they could be quite funny. (via Textually.org)
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