Sequential art has undergone transformations before, to best fit the most easily-distributed medium, and it can do so again. Cell-phone manga is the perfect example of that, and American comics can take exactly the same path if they choose to (or with larger-screen devices, or dedicated readers, or PCs and laptops).

Each time, they’ve also had to undergo a financial transformation to make it profitable, which is always painful, and shakes out the tree of publishers significantly. But it can be done, and if they want to stay in business, the comics publishers need to get on the stick.

FYI, if more graphic novels were available for my laptop or PDA, I’d be reading a lot more of them now.