I’ve been thinking about comics and the ways it’s been remediated in various mediums. One of the more obvious examples is the transition from comic to film. When a comic is translated to a cinematic form it embodies all of its forms and technics, whilst the narrative elements remain the same the comic is changed on a structural level to accommodate the new medium. From what I’ve seen a large of amount of web comics conform to the limitation of its fundamental print format. Perhaps people believe that a comic should be defined by these limitations and to deviate from the status quo is to misrepresent a classic form. Artists may see the internet as a means to reach a wider audience, without considering what the medium is truly capable of. Or maybe it’s a matter of effort, it certainly easier to create a static page consisting of four panels. Jay David Bolter has the following to say in his book Remediation (1999).

'It is easy to see that hypermedia applications are always explicit acts of remediation: they import earlier media into a digital space in order to critique and refashion them. However, digital media that strive for transparency and immediacy (such as immersive virtual reality and virtual games) are also acts of remediation. Hypermedia and transparent media are opposite manifestations of the same desire: the desire to get past the limits of representation and to achieve the real. They are not striving for the real in a metaphysical sense. Instead, the real is defined in terms of the viewer's experience: it is that which evokes an immediate (and therefore authentic) emotional response. Transparent digital applications seek to get to the real by bravely denying the fact of mediation. Digital hypermedia seeks the real by multiplying mediation so as to create a feeling of fullness, a satiety of experience, which can be taken as reality. Both these moves are strategies of remediation. ^43'

I believe this relates to my project, as I’m creating an experience that by Bolter’s definition is more ‘realistic in that I’m creating a comic that is ‘fuller’ than that of a print format.