We’ve pointed you to the fine Comics Influx site several times before; for those who aren’t yet familiar with it, its a site dedicated to a subject close to our hearts, making some of the fab comics work coming out of Europe (and further afield) more accessible by sharing reader’s translations of foreign language graphic novels, offering up page by page translations you can have open next to your original language copy of the book, so if you are stuggling with some graphic novel you couldn’t resist buying on holiday in France there’s help. Its a simple but clever and very handy idea. As we mentioned before there was an app for this process also being released for the Iphone; well, its now out there. From Stephen Betts:
“we have released the free Comix Influx Reader app for the iPhone. The app shows you all translations available on the Comix Influx website, so that while wandering around the tents in Angoulême you can check what translations are available before buying your comics. Then you will be able to retire to the comfort of your domicile to read your new purchases – translation on your iPhone in one hand, the original comic in the other. Search for Comix Influx on the iTunes App Store to download the application for free. We intend, of course, to launch equivalent apps on other mobile devices in the future.”
I like the idea of being at the festival, seeing some irresistible BD books but thinking oh my rusty French will never be up to it, then finding help is available. Nice! And for those of us who can’t be there but wish we were Stephen tells me that Comics Influx are going to be tweeting the festival with a new feed that will aggregate all tweets on the festival if the poster uses the #angou2010 hashtag, so if you are going to be in Angoulême over this weekend and you’re tweeting it as you go (as many will be, no doubt) then please consider adding the #angou2010 hashtag to your posts so they can all be followed from one place as CI are setting up a feed on their site to display all their and other’s tweets with the hashtag.
Thu, Jan 28, 2010
Comics and cartoons, Conventions and events