Comments on: Little Nemo comes to iPad

By: Guy Gilchrist

Guy Gilchrist — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 13:32:01 +0000

I’m all for Peter doing this. Preserving and presenting the classics of our artform is so, so important. Tom does such a great job with Hogan’s Alley.
It’s fantastic that new generations can be exposed to McCay’s genius.

By: Gar Molloy

Gar Molloy — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:19:07 +0000

Little Nemo’s best suited to large-scale high-quality prints, but it’ll probably find a bigger audience on the iPad as a $4 app than it would as a $50 book.

By: Tom Heintjes

Tom Heintjes — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 18:09:04 +0000

I’ve seen some vintage strips scanned and presented on an iPad, and they looked gorgeous. I was skeptical beforehand because of the smallish dimensions, but they really looked sharp and legible. Having said that, I still think print is a superior vehicle, but the iPad serves the material nicely.

By: Brian Fies

Brian Fies — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:37:06 +0000

That takes me aback a little. Of all the comics done in the history of the world, I’d expect Little Nemo to be among the last that would “work” on an iPad. A big part of its beauty is McCay’s micro scritchy-scratchy detail, while another big part of its beauty is his macro page-scale composition. I don’t know how you simultaneously serve both on a screen that, while bigger than 2 inches, is still pretty small. Zooming in and out wouldn’t cut it for me.

However, I have so much respect for Peter and his approach to this material that I suspect I’m wrong and might have to rethink. I’m eager to see how it looks. List me as skeptical but keeping an open mind.

By: Ben Carlsen

Ben Carlsen — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:02:48 +0000

This is awesome. Too bad I don’t have an iPad. Any chance of an iPhone version….?