Recently adapted into a live action Netflix original series, writer Kim Carnby and illustrator Hwang Young-Chan’s horror series Sweet Home is masterclass in narrative escalation, and one that best exemplifies the tightly executed pacing and payoff that Webtoon’s vertical-only reading format can facilitate.įollowing the death of his family in a tragic car accident, depressed high school student Cha Hyun-Soo moves into an apartment complex called Green Home only to find that the room, and the entire complex, is seemingly haunted or under assault by grotesque humanoid monsters that whisper things to him and pass by his peephole like taunting terrors. Where does one start with the 500+ weekly comics, most (if not all) of which are worthy of your time? With our list of the best of both ongoing and completed offerings on the platform below, of course! 10. Yes, Webtoon’s annual readership in excess of 100 billion is deserved, but also daunting.
It’s also irrefutably (at times impenetrably) dense, hosting a wide array of romance, action, supernatural, sports, and horror comics updated weekly.
Providing an intuitive, accessible, and highly functional digital-first desktop and mobile platform for both international and local readers and creators-including a female readership and creatorship in excess of 60%-Webtoon has ushered in an indisputable but often critically overlooked revolution in comics publishing with its dramatic take on comic democratization, narrative and visual formats, and finely tuned publishing practices. Originally launched as a platform exclusively for hosting Korean manhwa in 2004, Naver Webtoon, LINE Webtoon, or (more frequently) just Webtoon has become a monolith in webcomic circles for good reason since its expansion into Western comics hosting and translation in the mid-2010s.
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