Emmett Hobbes is a prolific cartoonist and writer who is known for his work on the Rick and Morty comics and the graphic novel My Riot with Rick Spears. Last month, his Webtoon Original, Royale, launched on the platform, introducing readers to a queer, historical, surrealistic heist drama, with Hank Jones’s colors adding extra vibrancy…
A Platform for Philippine Komiks: An Interview With Penlab
Filipino komiks (“comics”) have long had a commercial industry that goes far back as the 1920s, but it has been only until recently that interest in these works has grown outside of the Philippines. With social isolation restrictions still in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many artists have been turning to ways to expand…
Insta Made Me Read It: Fluffy Boyfriend and Little Matcha Girl
This week, I’m looking at once comic I saw on the Webtoon Instagram, Little Matcha Girl. It wasn’t a promoted post, but it was a video advert for a new release—notable production investment. The other, Fluffy Boyfriend, was suggested for me by the Webtoon app based on the comics I subscribed to (i.e. the comics…
Insta Made Me Read It: Lore Olympus and Blood-Ink
Last time, we reviewed the comics I’ve seen thanks to promoted Instagram ads: Cursed Princess Club and True Beauty. This time, we begin with another I’ve been seeing regularly through the same paid advertising, Lore Olympus, but I’m also branching out: I’m enjoying CPC and TB so much I’ve followed the webtoons Instagram account, and…
Insta Made Me Read It: Cursed Princess Club & True Beauty
Having been spending a lot more time on Instagram, I’ve been seeing a lot of Instagram ads. Some—my favourite—are for excessively dishy dating sim games. Some—the most perplexing—are for bizarre and sexual-looking contraptions selling for minus four dollars on Wish. And some—the ones that have actually caused me to click through and sample that tasty…
Webcomics Roundup: Discoveries
February brings us to discoveries of several new webcomics across various platforms. Some of these webcomics have been going for a while. Some of them are ones we’ve just discovered. Now you can discover them too!
WWACommendations: Honey Lemon, Paper Girls, Bad Girls, Batman, and More
Happy February! What comics have you been enjoying lately? Every month, WWAC contributors sound off about the comics we’re reading for fun. Let us know on Twitter what you recommend!
Webcomics Roundup: Super Heroes and Super Secrets
Our last webcomics roundup was a little spooky, but December’s webcomics are a little more … superlative. Though there’s some elements of the supernatural in a few, the stories are less scary and more intriguing (and adorable!). Two comics feature caped crusaders, but all of them feature secrets. Secret identities, secret powers, and even a…
Trading Outpost: Genre/Gender/Generic
Hello! And welcome back to another of The Trades, the world’s only comic podcast by people who don’t know anything about pen nibs. This month, we swear off literacy in order to better live out deconstructionism. Also, Aaron reads award nominated comics, while Webtoons is taking over my life, and I don’t know how to…
Previously on Comics: Another Big 3 Manga Bids Adieu
Hello readers! How was your weekend? Have you been binging on the Olympics like I’ve been? If you have, it’s time to take a break and check out the week in comics headlines. I thought this day would never come, but it has apparently arrived. Bleach is ending at the end of August. It looks…