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True Beauty, the popular Webtoon series is getting a live-action South Korean TV series that will be simulcast to the US on Rakuten Viki, a leading streaming service for Asian content True Beauty, will be exclusively available to U.S viewers on December 9th.  The Webtoon has more than five million followers and the new, live-action,[...]

Deadline reported that Webtoon, the world's most successful digital comic publisher, is expanding with a newly launched production division, Webtoon Studios The new production arm will pair up the publisher's massive library of titles and creators with entertainment platforms, including film, television, interactive entertainment, licensing, and merchandising. WEBTOON logo "Today marks a huge step for Webtoon," CEO[...]

Dean Haspiel's The Red Hook has launched season 4 this week with Blackout, exclusively at Webtoon, the free webcomics App Dean tells us "Upon finishing Starcross (season 3 of The Red Hook), I considered the natural evolution of New Brooklyn, a seceded republic defined by art and authenticity, and my first thought was "1961." The same[...]

My actual most popular thing is Urban Animal over at Webtoon, which you can read here: Art from Urban Animal. I'm in a somewhat unique position because I've done a lot of creator-owned, a lot of work for hire, a lot of work in the direct market, and a fair amount of work outside of it[...]

Krecic, known on her platform of choice Webtoon as Mongie, is currently redefining what a Kickstarter stretch goal can be The campaign to fund the second volume of Mongie's Let's Play webcomic is absolutely soaring on Kickstarter, with a current total of $158,881 raised of a set $10,000 goal… and there are still twenty-eight days to[...]

Debuting next week on Webtoon, the world's most popular comic book publisher and distributor  – and completely free to readers. Joined by colourist and designer James Devlin, and superstar letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou Planet DIVOC-91 is a nine-part webcomic, which is funded by some of the most prestigious scientific organizations in the UK, an offbeat sci-fi satire[...]

You, and Wikipedia, may know him as an "American entertainer, DJ, record producer, and music executive." Now, it's time for you to get to know Steve Aoki as a comic book creator as he brings Neon Future to Webtoon That's right… we have a Steve Aoki comic on our hands. The logo to Neon Future, the new Steve[...]

Until then, AWA is releasing it as a free online serial on WEBTOON and Tapas The online serialization begins on Wednesday, April 22nd Readers can read on their web browsers via the WEBTOON and Tapas apps on their smartphones. "S​evered tentacle won't grow back? Intergalactic virus has liquefied one of your heads? Feeling a bit woozy[...]

The comic will be available to read on the publisher's website and on WEBTOON and Tapas. AWA are converting their comics into a vertical reading format to make it easy to read on computers, tablets and phones In their statement, they said that digital serialization is one wa to get the comics to readers during the[...]

The eight series presented span a number of genres – from adventure and fantasy to romance, historical fiction, and so much more. Produced with respected publishers including Kodansha, animation studios such as MAPPA, WEBTOON, and Crunchyroll Studios, and a wide range of talented writers behind each project, here's an official look at what Originals has to[...]

Musical theatre star. And comics creator. Legendary Comics/WEBTOON Arcursian, a fantasy thriller written by Barrowman, his sister Carole Barrowman and Erika Lewis with art by Beni Lobel has been running on WEBTOON Tommy Lee Edwards provided the character designs Publisher Legendary Comics placed the series on popular digital comics publishing platform WEBTOON Now their first new weekly chapter[...]

WEBTOON, the world's leading digital comics publisher, announced a partnership with Crunchyroll, the world's most popular anime streaming service The strategic partnership will see the development and co-production of new animated content Crunchyroll and WEBTOON will also collaborate on the distribution, licensing, and retail of each new series. Korea-owned WEBTOON is currently the most read comics[...]

And so it came to pass… for the past ten days, WEBTOON has run a serialized animated promotional short of Leeane "Mongie" Krecic's popular webcomic series Let's Play – with the tenth and final episode going live this past Wednesday evening. Let's Play is the story of Sam Young, a programmer at a tech company who[...]

Let's Play, the popular webcomic serial on WEBTOON has been adapted into an anime short this week. WEBTOON is the most-read comics publisher in the world here They're the most-read digital publisher in the world, and they want to be much more They want to be a multimedia empire and are slowly working away at that[...]

Do you know WEBTOON? They publish digital comics through a phone app and the web The company would certainly love it if you have They are the most-read digital publisher in the world They are the most-read comics publisher on the planet. Enjelicious WEBTOON originally launched in South Korea in 2004 and launched in the US in[...]

Here are the nominations for 2019. One notable thing is the increase in prominence of publisher, LINE Webtoon, the Korean-based free digital comics publisher With nominations for best cartoonist with Echorise and Enjelicious, letterer Archan, colourist YaongYi, best humour publications Bluechair and Love Advice from the Great Duke of Hell, and webcomic work Age Matters by[...]

WEBTOON is a digital comics platform and app, arguably the most successful comics publisher in the world The Korean-owned company publishes comics with phones, tablets, and other on-the-go devices in mind with its "scrolling down" reading format. This year, platform celebrates their 5th anniversary with 100 billion views annually worldwide The app averages more than 55[...]

WEBTOON, the world's most successful webcomics publisher – and comics publisher in general – has released their first animated series: My Giant Nerd Boyfriend, Animated – an adaptation of one of the most popular comics series on the service My Giant Nerd Boyfriend premiered on WEBTOON in March 2017 and became one of its biggest[...]

And how they have been attracting a lot of big books from the non-Big Two. And now they are upping their staffing game, hiring Jin Kim from Webtoon as Director, Creator Strategy and Growth. Webtoon is the Korean free digital comic publisher who you will have read a lot about Bleeding Cool, probably as LINE Webtoon –[...]

Tapas Media is to add Heavy Vinyl by Carly Usdin and Nina Vakuev, the comic Boom published a couple of years ago, to their webcomics service. Tapas, formerly known as Tapastic, is a webtoon syndicate set up by South Korean entrepreneur Chang Kim in October 2012, operating from both Seoul and San Francisco by Tapas Media,[...]

LINE Webtoon, the free Korean digital comics publisher and distributor has just launched five new series, all from their Discover platform where they invite budding webcomics creators to show their work off. Unlucky is as Lucky does was a 2018 Discover Creator Contest finalist and is the wacky, not-so-lucky adventures of a 7-year-old princess, Unlucky Is As[...]

for the last few years Tom Akel has been Head of Content of LINE Webtoon, the Korean free digital comic book publisher and distributor. This has included commissioning new and original work from the likes of Stan Lee, Warren Ellis, Colleen Doran, Marc Silvestri, Katie Cook, Seth Kushner, Dean Haspiel and more, as well as publishing[...]

Dean Haspiel is set to launch the third instalment of his acclaimed Red Hook series, Starcross, debuting free at Korean digital publisher LINE Webtoon in 2019. Starcross is the fifth Webtoon series in the New Brooklyn Universe, and the anticipated follow up to The Red Hook trilogy'ssecond season, War Cry which wrapped in May Starcross will[...]

Korean digital comics publisher LINE Webtoon are launching a new "Discover Creator" with an $80,000 Grand Prize for November's winner. The contest invites creators from around the globe to submit their stories over the next three months until September 13th Webtoon has put together a panel of editors to select the eight best stories to advance into round 2,[...]

LINE Webtoons, the Korean digital free comic book service with a penchant for signing up big names has announced nine new titles, a new season for popular Katie Cook series Nothing Special and a reminder that the new rollout will contain already announced new series Outrage, by Deadpool co-creator Fabian Nicieza and artist Reilly Brown; Finality, by Warren Ellis and Colleen[...]

This Wednesday marks the launch of the next chapter of the New Brooklyn Universe with Dean Haspiel's War Cry from Line Webtoon As, ever, completely free. In the follow up to the 2017 Ringo Award-winner for Best Webcomic, The Red Hook's dead girlfriend is resurrected into War Cry, a human of mass destruction hosted by a teenage boy[...]

Korean digital comic book publisher Line Webtoon will see Legendary debut a second season for 2018 of their comic book Firebrand: The Initiation of Natali Presan, as Firebrand Season 2, by Jessica Chobot, author/producer Erika Lewis, and artist Claudia Aguirre. In season one, Natali Presano, a witch who never fit into her father's human world, fled the[...]

The free Korean webcomic platform LINE Webtoon has announced a new digital comic book Outrage, a cyber-stalking comedy/mystery series from Fabian Nicieza and Reilly Brown who previously worked together on Cable & Deadpool. Their newest series, Outrage, is the story of a mysterious individual who can navigate the Internet and physically manifest at the source of the vile bile that spews throughout[...]

LINE Webtoon, the popular Korean webcomic distributor has kicked off 2017's monthly comic launch weeks with an all-female slate in celebration of Women's History Month, and International Women's Day. LINE Webtoon are having a designated week each month designed to introduce readers to emerging fresh voices and unique comic creations And the March Launch Week has comic[...]

We will begin contacting qualified applicants in mid-February. Webtoon Comics Editor, YA & Casual Content – Webtoon Entertainment Inc We are looking for a comics Editor who is a pop culture fanatic with both the creative and logistical chops to source and develop compelling original content aimed primarily at our female, 14-24 audiences The Editor will be[...]