Finding Camellia is one of Manta Comics' biggest hits, having won over readers worldwide, a gender-bending romance about a young woman taken from her family and forced to live as an aristocrat's son, embarking on a wild journey through a world of deceit and aristocracy as she digs deep to uncover the truth about her […]
As the countdown to Emerald City Comic Con 2024 begins, Manta, the subscription-based digital comics and webnovel platform announced its exciting lineup for the convention today. This includes an enchanting booth dedicated to the popular series Under the Oak Tree and a thought-provoking panel discussion on the future of digital comics. Manta Comics Booths and Panels Booth […]
Manta is launching Manta Novel, an addition to its online platform that will bring the original source material for some of its most beloved comic titles to English-language readers for the very first time. The service will be available for all users from the early hours of February 1, Eastern Time. Intellectual property from digital […]
Yesterday, Manta, the prolific subscription-based digital comics platform, announced its plan to launch over 10 original series throughout the third quarter of 2023. As part of its ongoing expansion of in-house productions, Manta aims to cement its position as a leading platform with strong and sustainable digital comics production. The Manta Studios division, a team […]
It's King Charles' coronation in the United Kingdom this weekend, and Manta has sent us a list of five royal-themed webcomics you can read to celebrate the event or to avoid it. They are, of course, romance-themed since fans of romantic webcomics also like royals, so win-win! Check out these comics on the Manta website […]
Manta announced that three of their top romance series – Finding Camellia, Evangeline's Sword, and The Accidental Heiress – will premiere new seasons this spring. Finding Camellia, a gender-bending romance about a young woman taken from her family and forced to live as an aristocrat's son and one of Manta's top romance titles, will premiere its third season […]
The Blood Moon, the new vampire romantic thriller to hit digital comics, is now on the digital comics platform Manta. The vampire romance series has new episodes coming out every Monday Eastern Daylight Time. The Blood Moon is an original Manta vampire romance story created by its own in-house studio. The storyline follows a young […]
A Hard Day is a fascinating, curious exercise in Korean webcomics, adapting a 2014 movie about a corrupt cop who messes up, makes a bad decision, then makes even more bad decisions. In many ways, it's a state-of-the-art representation of the Korean webcomics scroll-down format designed for phones. The storytelling becomes more cinematic because it […]
Manta Comics has announced the release of its new webcomic title, A Hard Day, an adaptation of the hit 2014 South Korean action thriller film. A Hard Day will be available on Manta beginning on October 18th, 2022. A Hard Day Goes From Film To Webcomic The South Korean film that the webcomic is based on, A Hard […]
ПЕРЕМОГА: Victory for Ukraine is a new full-color graphic novel anthology by Ukrainian creators highlighting the war in Ukraine from Tokyopop that debuts digitally on August 24th, Ukrainian Independence Day, with a print release on September 27th, 2022. Proceeds from the sales will go to Razom for Ukraine. The war comes to readers (for ages […]
Manta Comics, a leading subscription-based webcomics platform, announced today that it is expanding its library of mystery and thriller titles with the release of Svaha: The Sixth Finger, a webcomic adaptation of the popular South Korean film currently streaming on Netflix. Svaha was initially released as a film by up-and-coming, award-winning director Jae-hyun Jang. It features […]
Square Enix released the global version of its Manga Up! manga app this week. Demand for online entertainment content has mounted over the past two years both in Japan and around the world, and English translations of its manga titles have enjoyed brisk sales. These trends have inspired the Company to offer a global version of its […]
Media Do International Inc., the U.S.-based subsidiary of Media Do Co., Ltd., Japan's largest eBook distribution company, just announced the expansion of Japanese titles available on OverDrive, the leading digital reading service for libraries and schools worldwide, in time for Golden Week, the biggest national holiday in Japan. OverDrive's Golden Week Japanese Content Sale highlights […]
In 2014, Bleeding Cool broke the story that Amazon was buying digital comic distributor and publisher ComiXology, three weeks before it was announced. At the time this was painted as giving ComiXology a far greater reach, but that has suddenly seemed to change. Eight years on, as part of continuing merging operations between ComiXology and Amazon big […]
Andrews McNeel Publishing (AMP) has partnered with Tapas Media, the pioneer mobile storytelling platform with more than 10 million registered users, for a multi-book deal to present a line of smart, entertaining graphic novels featuring strong female and underrepresented characters at their centre. This makes sense since Tapas Media's digital comics have a large female, […]
Korean comics are possibly the most-read comics in the world right now. Between WEBTOON and Tapas as apps on people's phones, manhwa is reaching tens of millions of readers worldwide, far more than manga or DC and Marvel comics. When you read enough of a particular country's stories and pop culture, you start to see […]
Last night (or this morning from my perspective) Kids Love Chains, the Substack of Donny Cates and Ryan Stegman, held a video conflab while Ryan Stegman drew Batman, with Scott Snyder, Fletcher Chu Fong, and Chip Zdarsky popping by. Cards on the table, I ended up there too. We knew that Scott Snyder's ComiXology Originals […]
At the DC Fandome last year, Jim Lee, DC Comics Publisher, and Chief Creative Officer announced that the DC Universe app. would now be known as DC Universe Infinite, a premium comic book subscription service debuting on the 21st of January, 2021, which it did. And that DC Universe Infinite would also be available worldwide […]
Dr. Brain is the first Korean drama on Apple TV+, launching the streaming service in South Korea with its premiere weeks ago. The series is a dark, twisty science fiction crime thriller directed by Kim Ji-Woon, one of Korea's top action directors. Now the original webcomic will be available to read in English for the […]
British people will not be allowed to fly to the USA for New York Comic Con. Banned by Trump, Biden is only lifting the restriction in November. Which will be in time for San Diego Comic-Con but not New York. This is why I won't be attending Scott Snyder's Scottober party at NYCC, run by […]
