Comics on Grav - how to publish them and self-host?

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Are there any special plugins or themes that would be particularly suitable or helpful for people who want to use Grav to self-host / publish the comics they made?

Does anybody have any tips or suggestions?

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I don’t see anything related to comics in themes or plugins repo. What do you imagine it should be? How different it is from the blog? Can’t each post simply be a single comic?

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Thanks for asking.

It would be something like a library experience but for the public rather than oneself.
You would be able to upload and share your comics for public viewing and others you know could too:

For example, the Kavita demo available at: https://demo.kavitareader.com

You can login with the following credentials:

Username: demouser
Password: Demouser64

Or the Codex demo here:
https://codex.sl8r.net/r/0/1

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I don’t think there’s anything like this for Grav, but I’m pretty sure it could be implemented with some work. Codex looks more simple to achieve

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It would be an interesting project. With a theme created with the Uikit framework, for example, and with its Slideshow component, I suppose it would be possible, although that involves a lot of work.

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first of all im not expert or anything.
what i see at website you shared is a header, a bottom and a sidebar that comes with modular page, and main content that changes.
at content there are same built divs which contain a h1 or h2 and under it there is a slide which shows content pages’ main image and name.
so i dont think it would be hard to do for you since even i could do something somehow smilar to it (soruturet.com), after many work…
since im not expert i may not be able to see something special there btw.
good luck !

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Here is one example (requires an account to see) of a comic, though somewhat unusual format:

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Nice one. Many years ago, more than 30, at university, there was some fuzz about fullscreen design approaches. Recently, I’m once again intrigued with this concept and your example is a quite perfect fit but it sucks on UI, it’s too fluid, you have to place it as a user in position using scroll, frame by frame… I’m intrigued to do something… I’ve been working on a theme for artist exposition, a combination of what you exposed as an example and a rather basic one page theme I found for GRAV would make a perfect combination…

Nothing to be expected soon, but let’s see.

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