Comic books are a collectible item. People put a monetary value to them (Yehl, J. 2014). Rare comics can be worth as much as a million pounds. Variant covers, limited edition runs, and signed comics are all things that digital versions cannot do. People like to own stuff and reading a comic book has a certain personal feel to it and it is hard to re-create these feelings in the digital version. Furthermore, a printed comic is a tangible product. You can touch it and you can smell it; you can do whatever you want with it. When people own a product, it becomes a small part of who they are.
The most obvious benefit of the digital publishing is that it is cheap. Creator takes the comic and uploads it to a website and takes less money or can be completely free. It makes the content creating process very easy and takes less time to upload the finished work. There are more chances to gain potential readers because all people use internet. For the creator it is easy to control his comic: advertising, updates, style and content can be changed in no time. Thus, the creator becomes a self-publisher (Albert, A. http://comicbooks.about.com/od/creatingcomicbooks/a/digitalvsprint.htm, no date).
Each versions of the comic are good in their own ways but it depends on the creator and his capabilities to use these techniques.
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Bibliography
Albert, A. (no date) "Digital VS Print", About Home. Available at: http://comicbooks.about.com/od/creatingcomicbooks/a/digitalvsprint.htm (Accessed: 21 November 2014).
Yehl, J. (2014) "I've got issues: digital is carefree way to enjoy comics", IGN, 11 April. Available at: http://uk.ign.com/articles/2014/04/11/ive-got-issues-digital-is-a-carefree-way-to-enjoy-comics (Accessed: 21 November 2014).