Primary research -
Surveying comic book readers
In order to determine patterns amongst female comic readers I was able
to perform an online questionnaire and focus group.
Questionnaires were posted to online forums and art community websites such as deviantart to gain response from a specific audience involved in the creation and consumption of art.
The questions asked to users varied as I gained experience about how
individuals would respond to the wording. I began by requesting information
in the following format:
- Age
- Gender
- Level of experience with computers
- Level of experience with comic books, if you have any favourite comic
book artists.
- What you believe interaction to be
After having two responses I decided to change the last question to
specifically reflect the format of comic books and so it was changed
to:
- What do you think an interactive comic should/could be like?
An additional question was added regarding the delivery preference of
comics:
- Do you prefer digital comics or non-digital physical comic books?
Most of the responses to this question were in favour of printed comics
"I guess the reason why people (and myself) like paper
comics over digital ones is because they can actually hold them in their
hand. Also, they would'nt have to wait for a screen to load to start
reading. Plus, you can take paper comics with you anywhere; you can't
do that with a digital comic, unless you save every single comic page
on your laptop." Printed comics not only have advantages
related to screen use but also being able to see an entire page layout
at once, observing the progression of time through panels and the feel
of the object.
Although I received questionnaires back from males I focused on analysing data acquired from females as the focus on my project was towards this group.
I have highlighted specific answers collected from respondents, but
the raw data is also available.