Squares, Circles and Dirty Windows: A Toolkit for Studying the Materiality of Digital Comics

This keynote considered three ways to study the materiality of digital comics:

1. The metaphor of the dirty window (to be looked at rather than through).

2. The contrast between circles as circles (as producible via analogue production techniques) and squares that represent circles (as used in the digital pixel grid.

3. A move from text to reader, considering file types, software, firmware and hardware.