Both have their advantages; vertical scrollers are easier to read while with traditional pages you can make use of the page turn and other techniques. I personally prefer traditional because when those big payoff panels hit, they HIT. But I like vertical pages too, especially when reading more casual comics
Jun '20
Jun '20
Good points - I also prefer traditional pages. I grew up reading manga and there are some panels that really got stuck in my head, like those in Inio Asano's Oyasumi Punpun. Those would've been hard to pull off in vertical pages.
they've each got their strengths and weaknesses and if anything i love seeing people take either and find cool unique ways to use them
I like both, I do prefer traditional, but as long as the phone can't block ads (or at least without going way out of your way to adblock an app), platforms will be pushing phone more than browser based comics. They make more money.
I think I am just old, because I prefer traditional. I like being able to see the whole page, similar to how you would see it in a physical book. I don't necessarily find vertical scrolling easier to read unless if it is short like a gag comic.
Though I prefer both, I'm going to lean towards vertical. I never realized just how much easier it is for me to read comics in this format. Though this is mainly because I read them digitally. A million years ago, I did read actual print manga, mainly One Piece, but I think I'm going to stick with digital from here on and this format works very well.
Personally, I prefer traditional pages. Since I grew up reading books that way (and later manga). Vertical pages feel wrong for me somehow, I can see it can work in some cases like the comic (Lack of Love).
I prefer traditional just because of how people do layouts and such but I think both methods are totally valid and have different things they’re good for! I just prefer that feeling of flipping through things and seeing it all together...though that might be because I actually have a Really hard time remembering events with vertical format...something about how I process them makes me have to keep going back up to see what just happened. But that’s like, probably just me tbh XD
I leaned more towards traditional for reading level my works but as vertical have it's own advantage, I do use it and reading in appreciation if the author make use of the format good.
I prefer traditional because I'm old fashioned and the way I read comics and manga. It requires less scrolling and provides opportunities for cool compositions. Vertical is a good for mobile but I'm unfamiliar with drawing in that format.
Traditional for me too. The pacing feels better to me, I don't really like how the vertival format makes me scroll faster, if that makes sense?
Vertical comics can be done well too, if the cretor is using the composition in new and exciting ways ofc ^^
When I first joined I thought about updating with multiple pages at a time, but it was too much work. I've found there's less scrolling with traditional pages--it can all fit on your screen if you're reading on a tablet.
Traditional pages. I still read a lot in vertical format because I usually do it at my phone, but I have the feeling that I pay more attention to the details of the art on traditional pages.
Imo, vertical comics suit fast-paced stories very well, while traditional seems to be better for chill stories.
Around a year ago I would have said it wouldn't matter much.
But after some stuff happened and I ended up on very strong meds (Morphine and some other stuff), it went in and affected my brain quite a lot.
First I couldn't read/Use the computer for weeks.
But, when I finally got a bit better again, and was able to enjoy manga and webcomics, I just... Couldn't enjoy manga as much.
There was too much information crammed into too small pages, with too much text just staring me in the face at once.
Whereas the scrolling pages were less information all over, making it easy for me and my stupid brain to enjoy and read with ease.
Even now, when I'm pretty much off of the meds again, I can still feel that I simply can't enjoy the traditional way as much as I can with the scrolling pages. -I still can and do read traditional comics, as there is many I followed before all of this, and wouldn't miss. But I just don't really get in to many new ones that's traditionally made unless I like some part of it extra much.
This, ofc, is a bit of a special case, but this is why I prefer scrolling pages as the person I am today ^^
I prefer traditional pages- I use desktop tapas 90% of the time and I'm really not a fan of the sea of white space between each panel. It's less distracting on mobile but still not great for immersion imo. I really don't mind zooming in to see more if I have to.
Whenever this topic comes up, I feel like I'm the only person who enjoys reading vertical scroll format on desktop...
I don't have a preference for either of them. As long as the font is readable, doesn't matter what format the pages will be. There are some traditional pages and vertical pages that are hard for me to read that I feel like my eyes will give up.
I strongly prefer traditional pages and find them much easier to read. To me the flow often seems better and it's more immersive than in the vertical format where often you can only concentrate on one panel at the time. Not to mention I tend to get frustrated with the constant strolling and too much space. Tight panels are much easier to read for me and vertical comics that use equal sized panels with no extra space between them are something I do read at times.
The thing I really like about traditional pages is that the whole page can be utilized and the relations between the panels are as important as the panels themselves. It seems more whole, if that makes sense.
