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Eliza and her monsters
Eighteen-year-old Eliza Mirk is the anonymous creator of Monstrous Sea, a wildly popular webcomic, but when a new boy at school tempts her to live a life offline, everything she's worked for begins to crumble.
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The Platformization of Culture: Webtoon Platforms and Media Ecology in Korea and Beyond
This article examines the webtoon (wept'un)—a term coined in Korea to refer to webcomics—which is arguably the most pervasive and powerful form of digital serial production in twenty-first-century Korea. Webtoons have developed by utilizing various potentials that the digital platform offers, such as open solicitation, (partial) free web/mobile distribution, profit from advertisement and page viewing, and transmedia production. As a new cultural medium, the webtoon is thus inseparable from its platform and organically tied to its distinctive platform ecology, which is different from the ecosystems that other (global) mega-platforms create. Engaging with the insights from recent studies of platforms and utilizing empirical media analysis, I argue that Korean webtoon platforms demonstrate the continuing and intensifying dependency of art on platforms—a process that I call “the platformization of culture”—and that this specific type of platformization is reinforced by what I call “the artist incubating system.” The case of webtoon platforms reveals a number of telling aspects of media ecosystems for art production in the digital age—aspects that are spreading and expanding to various fields of art.
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Ozy and Millie
Follows the adventures of Ozy and Millie, two very different fox best friends from Seattle, as they navigate home and school life.
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Between Pen and Pixel
2019 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award Nominee, Best
Academic/Scholarly Work In Between Pen and Pixel: Comics,
Materiality, and the Book of the Future , Aaron Kashtan argues
that paying attention to comics helps us understand the future of
the book. Debates over the future of the book tend to focus on
text-based literature, particularly fiction. However, because
comics make the effects of materiality visible, they offer a
clearer demonstration than prose fiction of how the rise of digital
reading platforms transforms the reading experience. Comics help us
see the effects of alterations in features such as publication
design and typography, whereas in print literature, such
transformations often go unnoticed. With case studies of the work
of Alison Bechdel, Matt Kindt, Lynda Barry, Carla Speed McNeil,
Chris Ware, and Randall Munroe, Kashtan examines print comics that
critique digital technology, comics that are remediated from print
to digital and vice versa, and comics that combine print and
digital functionality. Kashtan argues that comics are adapting to
the rise of digital reading technologies more effectively than
print literature has yet done. Therefore, looking at comics gives
us a preview of what the future of the book looks like. Ultimately,
Between Pen and Pixel argues that as print literature
becomes more sensitive to issues of materiality and mediacy, print
books will increasingly start to resemble to comic books.
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