“The problem was figuring out how to get people to pay for them,” said Benjamin Woo, a communication and media studies professor at Carleton University, who studies comics. Webtoon has been ...

The popularity of Webtoon is nothing new. Together with the rapid rise of Korean content, it has certainly taken the digital comic world by storm. While people love manga just as much, the story ...

Digital comics have found new audiences. Ken Kim, Webtoon’s chief executive for North America, behind a character head from the comic series “Yumi’s Cells.”Credit...Michelle Groskopf for ...

They were in response to the growing presence of the internet and to compete with other forms of comics at the time, like Japanese manga. How do you think webtoons manage to stand out as a ...

The biggest modern-day publisher of comics, Webtoon, with a vertical streaming comic book service from thousands of comic book creators, today announced a major update to its online platform ...