Will they be highly interactive so they're more like movies?
Will traditional comics still be printed?
Will any genres die out as others overly-dominate the industry?
Will comics die out all together?
Who knows...
Jut imagine... space-age comics...
So many questions...
Apr '17
Apr '17
I think they might be interactive but at the same time I'm a purest and feel digital and printed will live on
VR comics, of 3D perhaps. I agree with @scullpanda that printed will still live on.
I think there will be much fewer printed comics. Nearly all of them are gonna be online and thanks to all the new possibilities that a digital comic offers, compared to a printed one ether interactive, or partly animated or who knows, what else comes up in the near future. I think there will be no genre to completely die out, thou i think the sci-fi genre might change a bit, to fit to this modern society.
hmm.. i dont think theyll just die. theyre so young, and lived long enough to be more than a novelty.
speaking of novelties, i think thats what a lot of interactive comics are. not gif comics - they have a place inbetween webcomics and visual novels - but like, game-type comics. i dont see the fundamental medium of comics changing like that, when movies and video games and visual novels already exist and they arent comics
superhero comics might die out. or become significantly less dominant. marvel and dc will either die or change their game significantly. (also, i dream beyond dreaming that BL will die out but ik it wont bc straight women are awful)
i think comics will become a lot easier to publish independently, therell be more comic publishers on a range of sizes and specialties. theyll be taken more seriously, but still capable of being fun. obviously, print comics will die. almost entirely. that could make it harder to make money on comics, or easier - maybe being paid to publish online, by fans or publishers, will be the new normal, or everyonell be scraping by, because marvels no longer forking out for their select few, shite artists (and two or three blessed talented ones).
i think more people in the mainstream comic industry will do it all themselves. thats what you see, when someones moves from webcomics into big-leagues - they still write, then draw, then colour. maybe thatll make comics a harder job, but better paid. itll also increase quality, i think. unless an artist and writer work really well together (like mckelvie and gillen) it damages the comics quality, because theyre missing that communication.
or maybe we'll all be dead.
Assuming we even live to see 2050...
I believe print comics will still be around just as print books are still around. There's a satisfaction to be held just flipping through the pages that won't go away with the convenience of computers and phones. I have read all my comics online for the past 3 years but I plan on buying print once I get my own place.
I think actually there will be a renaissance of sorts somewhere mid 2020 due to the AI-employment crisis. When autonomous vehicles arrive, putting millions out of work and saving the time of millions more, there are going to be a lot more artists. Since one of the only viable solutions to that issue is a universal basic income and universal health care, that will free up even more would-be independent artists. More venues like Patreon will be invented to create monetization schemes for artists. This would be a boon to not only comic makers, but just about every other craft and art out there.
What kind of comics survive is anybody's guess. I'm personally not a big fan of interactive comics (that's what visual novels and video games are for). We'll probably see vertical scroll comics overtake paginated comics. 3D comics and VR comics sounds more like the domain of video games again. One variety I hope to see is illustrated books. I have yet to see an adult/YA book incorporate in-text comics and still-frames in addition to paragraphs, like what children's books do. It used to be really hard to do that in print, but it should be easy on mobile readers.
They will remain the same because comics are a well established and ultimately dying genre. Most that can happen in 2050 is they somehow become mainstream again lol
As long as movies are constantly being based around comics there will remain interest in the original source material.
I feel like more and more are gonna move to the panel by panel Ava's Demon layout. It's already becoming more prominent.
Oh geez, traditionally printed books/comics will either be gone or really expensive .3. at least, compared to online versions of that time.
And I feel like at that point we'll be able to incorporate like... voice acting and virtual reality for the comics! In fact, comics might end up being interchangeable with movies maybe? It would be like a subset of animation. Motion comics would probably be more popular.
Oh! And! Robot x Human will be the new BL XD
Probably so politically correct that they'd be so boring.
I'd be 67 by that time if I'm still among the living...
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