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Webtoon Crosses Over With Capcom's Monsteer Hunter For New Competition
The biggest comic book publisher in the world, Webtoon, is teaming up with video game manufacturer Capcom for a new contest that invites fans to bring the Monster Hunter universe to life in their very own webcomic.  The new contest, Monster Hunter Wilds, is launching today with Webtoon's new Branded Contest programme and will bring Monster Hunter's fanbase[...]
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Snailords' Freaking Romance joins Miyuli's Morgana & Oz in print in Webtoon Unscrolled's March 2025 solicits and solicitations, as the webtoons turn up in graphic novel point versions of the popular comics. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 100%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ FREAKING ROMANCE GN WEBTOON[...]
Shane Mang
Shane Mang has joined Webtoon as Head of Licensing & Merchandise, reporting to Wattpad Webtoon Studios President Aron Levitz Webtoon states that Mang will "spearhead the new division as the company makes a major push into consumer products, overseeing a diverse portfolio of licensing initiatives that continue the studio's movement into physical merchandise based on[...]
Suitor Armor: Interview with Hit Webtoon Creator Purpah on Vol. One
Suitor Armor is one of the breakthrough hit comic series to come out of WEBTOON, getting a printed graphic novel edition that turns the story from a vertical scroll reading experience to a more traditional comic with panels laid out on a single page Purpah's story takes place in a fantasy medieval world with magic[...]
Webtoon
One of the most popular comic book publishers in the world, Webtoon, has just relaunched its Webtoon Shop, a new-look online retail destination for webcomic fans The shop allows fans worldwide to find merchandise from some of Webtoon's biggest Creators and franchises in webcomics, including Lore Olympus, The Mafia Nanny, Sweet Home, Love 4 a Walk, School Bus Graveyard, Vampire Family, and All of[...]
Webtoon Collaborates On Tactile And Braille Comics
Webtoon is to publish tactile digital comics on Dot Inc.'s Dot Pad, the first smart tactile graphics display for the visually impaired, converting any input from a connected device into a tactile graphic Webtoon series Yumi's Cells, by Donggeon Lee, and Hooky, by Míriam Bonastre Tur, will be the first two series to launch on[...]
The Mafia Nanny
The Mafia Nanny by Sh00 and Violet Matter is a Webtoon with over 1.7 million subscribers And now Webtoon Unscriolled is going to let some of the print readers in on all the fuss, as Davina is out on her first assignment out of the Elite Nanny Academy, with a mission to protect the young[...]
Mutupo: Tokyopop Announces
Originally produced as a webtoon, Mutupo initially garnered over 10,000 readers in less than 3 months The digital release is available now with the print edition set to debut on August 13th. Cover art: TOKYOPOP/Noir Caesar MUTUPO Vol 1 Story and art by Kay Rwizi ∙ Print SRP: $13.99 ∙ 162 pages ∙ ISBN: 978-1427877307 ∙ For Teen Readers[...]
Crunchyroll Unveils Updated List of Summer 2024 Anime Slate
Its long run as a Webtoon continues while the anime is still in the early parts of the story And with season two, the social metaphor is even clearer than ever – it's about the unfair social system of South Korean society You don't need to know that to enjoy the series, but knowing that[...]
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Herhumanist's Webtoon series Beetle Hands has found a print publisher in Seven Seas, part of their September 2024 solicits and solicitations. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 100%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ BEETLE HANDS GN VOL 01 SEVEN SEAS ENTERTAINMENT JUL242374 (W) Herhumanist (A) Herhumanist The full-color webtoon/comic released on[...]
Dark Horse Puts De Campi, Patridge & Fitzpatrick's Webtoon Into Print
In 2022, Alex De Campi, Skylar Patridge and Kelly Fitzpatrick launched a new comic book series on Webtoon, about a world in which magic had returned, after a reversal of the laws of nature And it is called Reversal The series ended last year, but it has been picked up by Dark Horse Comics for publication[...]
Webtoon Launches IPO, Declares It Is Worth $2.67 Billion Dollars
The world's biggest publisher of comics, Webtoon Entertainment, has started trading shares on the Nasdaq stock exchange today, at $21 a share, setting a market value of $2.67 billion The Los Angeles-based company is majority-owned by South Korean technology giant Naver, and reports 170 million monthly active users in more than 150 countries around the[...]
Tower of God Season 2 Premiering on Crunchyroll on July 2nd
This announcement marks a pivotal moment for fans of the beloved WEBTOON series created by SIU following the surprise betrayal at the end of season one, setting the stage for a summer filled with intrigue and mystique "Reach the top, and everything will be yours." At the top of the tower exists everything in this[...]
Camp Prodigy: A New Young Readers Graphi
Their art is super appealing and brings an incredible amount of energy to the page. "Camp Prodigy" creator self-portrait by Caroline Palmer courtesy of Atheneum Books for Young Readers Caroline Palmer (they/them) is a nonbinary comic creator whose work has been published in the comics anthology A Taste of Home (2020) by Level Ground Comics, and their[...]
Freaking Romance
Wattpad WEBTOON Studios and Skybound Entertainment recently announced the development of Aidyn Arroyal / Snailord's Freaking Romance into a live-action feature film The series is a webcomic hit on WEBTOON, with over 468 million global views online The webcomic has also been published as a graphic novel by WEBTOON Unscrolled, with Vol 1 available now and[...]
I'm The Grim Reaper: Sam Raimi to Executive Produce Webtoon TV Series
Filmmaker and Evil Dead & horror impresario Sam Raimi has signed on as executive producer of the TV adaptation of the goth horror comedy Webtoon series I'm The Grim Reaper for Wattpad Webtoons Studios  Josh Campbell & Matt Stuecken the the writers who will adapt the GRAVEWEAVER-created series for television. As reported by Deadline, I'm the Grim Reaper centers[...]
Bobbie Chase Retires From Comics, To Write Tell-All Book About Marvel
Former Marvel Comics EIC, former Vice President & Executive Editor at DC Comics, and just-former Executive Editor at Webtoon Unscrolled, Bobbie Chase has lived more comic books than any of us have read And now she is going to tell us all about it, starting with a book about working at Marvel Comics. YouTube screencap Graduating from[...]
Webtoon Launch Super Likes Monetization For English-Language Creators
The biggest comic book publisher in the world, Webtoon, is introducing "Super Like", a new monetization program for their creators on Webtoon's English language platform It will launch for those who use the Webtoon Canvas publishing model in the spring and Webtoon Original creators in the summer, Super Likes will let creators earn additional revenue[...]
Marvel Unlimited Infinity Comics For Free
As well as offering access to digital versions of Marvel Comics' back catalogue, Marvel Unlimited also published original comic books in the Webtoon vertical scrolling format, which Marvel calls Infinity Comics, as well as recutting previous comics to fit the format Now, to promote those comics, they are making over a hundred of them free[...]
The Leveling of Solo Leveling Documentary Premieres on Crunchyroll
The series began as a novel that became a hit digital comic in the webtoon format of scrolling vertically to read on phones It was the one Korean manhwa that broke through to international audiences and opened up manhwa to the West, and is currently the most-hyped anime series of the current season. Spanning across Korea[...]
Subzero
Oni Press is to offer the first print publication of the Webtoon series SubZero by Junepurrr With over 375 million reads on Webtoon and over three million subscribers, the romance fantasy comic book will arrive in print in September SubZero Vol 1 will collect episodes 0–25 of the Webtoon and feature all-new, back matter material. Junepurrr[...]
Webtoon's New Deals With Aethon Books & Penguin Random House
Webtoon Entertainment is the largest comic book publisher in the world, the last time we checked, claiming Webtoon claims over 175 million monthly active users around the world, is headquartered in Korea with an entertainment division in Los Angeles and under the corporate umbrella of Korean company Naver And they continue to make moves. #gallery-1 { margin:[...]
Bleeding Cool's Comic Book and Graphic Novel JobWatch
Our Localization Team at WEBTOON is seeking experienced freelance translators for the Korean > English language pair We are looking for someone with a passion for storytelling who wants to share more great stories with English-speaking readers around the world. Rights Manager at Rebellion, Oxford, England, United Kingdom We are looking for an engaged, proactive and[...]
David J. Lee Moves From Impossible Burger To CFO Of Webtoon
Bleeding Cool loves to cover Webtoon Entertainment – well, they are the largest comic book publisher of all Webtoon claims over 85 million readers around the world, is headquartered in Korea with an entertainment division in Los Angeles and is now under the umbrella of Korean company Naver And they have been making some changes[...]
DC's Bobbie Chase, Now Executive Editor of Webtoon's Printed Comics
She was one of the victims of the DC Bloodbath redundancies but has more than landed on her feet as executive editor of Webtoon Unscrolled, which published print versions of digital Webtoon comic books. Talking to Shaenon K Garrity at Publisher's Weekly, Bobbie Chase stated "As someone who did superhero comics for 35 years of my[...]
Heather Nuhfer & Patricia Daguisan's New MG Graphic Novel, Lunch
She has also written kids novels, including the My So-Called Superpowers series, and on TV for Littlest Pet Shop. Patricia Daguisan is a Haitian-American artist who graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with a BFA in Sequential art and works in comics, animation, gaming character design, background, and illustration for publishers including Bento[...]
Comic Book Retailers (& Publishers) Say The Funniest Things Part Three
He continued; " I think Direct Market retailers can adapt to the market as it exists, retaining what's working for them in the periodical business, while expanding their sales of manga, webtoon collections, kids graphic novels, and OGNs.  They can continue to win customers based on their curation (although it may involve fewer superheroes), and on[...]