Dani Jones (@danidraws), creator of My Sister The Freak, made a very good post on her blog this morning about the state of digital comics – and print comics in the digital age – and the transitions being made or needing to be made in the shift to the digital age. Below is an excerpt of her blog post.

I like to compare today’s digital comics industry with the early digital music industry. Back then, it was chaos with tons of different formats, lack of players, and lots of unfamiliarity, uncertainty, and fear from the creators and labels.

Then, the iPod and iTunes came along. Suddenly, digital music was easy to manage, buy, and listen to, and the industry eventually grew to the monster that it is today. I think the iPad has the ability to become for publishing what the iPod was for music. Publishers and creators just need to get their act together and step away from the proprietary formats.

I think there should be one (or two) simple, easy-to-make, easy-to-distribute format for digital comics. Digital music has the mp3. I think comics should use the PDF.

To read the full blog (which I very highly recommend) head over to Danidraws.com once you’re done here and let’s see if was all can’t get this industry into shape