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Mark Grambau’s elegant Superhero silhouette posters. I’d buy these!

The last few posts here have been very tech-heavy and I feel I need to redress the balance a bit. For years I’ve been an avid Graphic Novel reader… okay, call them grown-up comics if you want to! I still find myself re-reading The Sandman every few months and I must have bought the series a decade ago. Other favourites include a Sandman-offshoot character, Lucifer, pictured above, and Preacher. And let’s not forget the fantastic Watchmen series.

I do have the actual books themselves but also have digital versions on both my iPhone and MacBook Pro using two similar comic viewers: ComicZeal on the iPhone and ComicBookLover on the Mac. Both applications have utilised the best features of the platforms they run on. If I want to have a single page-view on my Mac, I turn the laptop over on its side and ComicBookLover will present the perfect view, thanks to the built-in accelerometer. On my iPhone, ComicZeal will let me zoom in and drag along the panels to read the story. Highly satisfying.