How will the Internet change the comics industry?
“Honest to God, I don’t know, but most of the people who claim to know don’t know either. You know, when motion pictures first started happening, there were those who said you had to work only in long shots because your public would feel cheated by seeing less than all of the actors. I think there will always be stuff on paper to be read by people who think the concept of reading is as interactive as you need to be. And it is, I guess, once you think about it. But we’re (THORBY) selling downloadable comics in PDF format, which you can read and print up with Adobe Acrobat Reader, and we’re talking about comics that offer interactive possibilities, including slapping your face if you are at all insulting to the protagonist, and we’ve worked on some full motion video concepts. I’m going to cop-out here: The Internet will change publishing comics and publishing other stuff in many interesting ways. I am firmly convinced of the possibilities. We must go forward, so that we do not go backwar
