Most of the comics I read on Substack are quite awkward on a phone (especially as my eyes are increasingly bum). Even when the flow is designed for vertical reading (eg Molly Knox Ostertag's excellent stuff), the text is simply too small to read. And there are a lot of comics creators who are using traditional layouts (eg Brian K Vaughn) which really need a big screen to work.
Square panels, at the size and resolution you've gone for here, work really well on big and small screens. Really interesting to think about how adaptable the square format is - converting traditional vertical, webtoon-style comics into paginated content for print publishing must be a very awkward process - especially when the verticality is a strong part of the storytelling.
Which is a long-winded way of saying: yeah, that worked well! Looking forward to the full X365.
Most of the comics I read on Substack are quite awkward on a phone (especially as my eyes are increasingly bum). Even when the flow is designed for vertical reading (eg Molly Knox Ostertag's excellent stuff), the text is simply too small to read. And there are a lot of comics creators who are using traditional layouts (eg Brian K Vaughn) which really need a big screen to work.
Square panels, at the size and resolution you've gone for here, work really well on big and small screens. Really interesting to think about how adaptable the square format is - converting traditional vertical, webtoon-style comics into paginated content for print publishing must be a very awkward process - especially when the verticality is a strong part of the storytelling.
Which is a long-winded way of saying: yeah, that worked well! Looking forward to the full X365.