Webtoon's new age rating standards say that a comic can't be rated All Ages if it includes "Fully censored profanity (e.g., #$%^) in a few episodes". Literally more restrictive than 1950s newspaper funnies!

There will come a point where it will make far more sense to just use your own website as a point of distribution rather than relying on algorithmic aggregators that censor and promote art that appeals to the lowest common denominator.

This is already true and was true way before webtoon showed up to profit off of the spaces independent creators built for ourselves! If you'd like to find some comics on their own websites OR some resources for how to go about hosting your own work I post about it at @readwebcomicsgdi ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ here's a small post i made with a helpful resource for getting your work the hell off of webtoon! here's a bigger post someone else made about this sort of thing! we do not have to live like this y'all i am BEGGING

It's still Pride Month, so. 🌈✨️ [@lovespells-comic]

Header image for my webcomic @xanadu-phantasm

I NEED YALLS HELP

im looking for a webcomic i read in middleschool. heres everything I remember about it:

thats everything i can remember. i havent thought about it in so long and i rly wanna revisit it again. if anyone knows what it was called pls let me know!!

(and also pls reblog so this reaches more ppl and stuff)

“Mel, I am concerned, please not transform into a tree, I–”

I finished reading all the available chapters of @kstipetic‘s Alethia the other day! It’s a compelling, beautifully-illustrated webcomic about a world of robots who have been carrying on long after their Creators have disappeared, and the alien yet strangely familiar societies they maintain. You follow the mystery robot Jun as she wanders her way into different robot cities performing various roles/functions, learns about their core operations, and then attempts to root out inefficiencies. 

The character designs and art are fantastic, and every chapter has a self-contained story that is like a weird fairy tale logic puzzle. It sticks in your brain like a grappling thing that refuses to let go. I really recommend this series - it definitely feeds your eyes, brain and sense of wonder.

It’s done! Get it here:

https://alethia.itch.io/alethia-chapter-14

I’ve been working on this story arc since early 2017. It’s become longer than 14 Nights, better written than 14 Nights, and better drawn. I didn’t tackle all the philosophical questions that I’d hoped to with regard to the effect that fiction has on us and my own ambivalent relationship to fiction, but I think that was an impossible goal. I’m extremely proud of this story arc, maybe the proudest I’ve ever been of anything in my life. I hope the ending will satisfy you.

Itch.io Creator Day with SpiderForest friends!

November 25, 2022 is itch.io Creator Day!

From midnight (PT) to midnight on Nov 25, 2022, itch.io won’t be taking a cut of any sales on the website, which means more will go directly to indie creators!

itch.io isn’t just for indie games - there are also comics! I’ve pulled together a little list of friends from the SpiderForest Webcomic Collective. And if you don’t feel like spending money today, why not check out our totally free to read webcomics? 

Here are various SpiderForest creators’ itch.io shops, along with our webcomics below!

Maiji/Mary Huang https://maiji.itch.io/ Now Recharging - https://nowrecharging.com/ -  Cute robot nannies, soft fluffy sheep, and the meaning of existence. (A completed webcomic!)

Pink https://pinkilicious.itch.io/ Root & Branch - https://www.rootandbranchcomic.com/ - A Journey of Action, Magic, and Discovery - The Quest for the Great Tree!

sskessa https://alethia.itch.io/ Alethia - https://alethia.kstipetic.com/ - Robots who’ve been abandoned by their Creators struggle to find meaning in life.

jacki crabbng https://crabbng.itch.io/ kings of sorts - https://kingsofsorts.com/ - A sci-fi fantasy tale about self improvement, love, and the truth behind the monarchy’s lies.

Caroline https://carolinebtclouds.itch.io/the-long-rains Beneath the Clouds - https://beneaththecloudscomic.com/ - A story of ghosts and gunpowder, set in 11th century Japan. (A completed webcomic!)

Christina “Delphina” Major  https://delphina.itch.io/ Sombulus - https://www.sombulus.com/ - A paladin, a magic scavenger, and a curious inventor hop between surreal worlds on fun adventures!

Yubria/Kristina https://yubriamakesart.itch.io/broken-book-1 broken - https://broken.spiderforest.com/ - A fairy general and his zombie construct fight eldritch abominations.

More indie games, comics and more at itch.io, and find more webcomics to read at the SpiderForest Webcomic Collective!

i think one big aspect about isekai that's underdiscussed is that a lot of them are written in what's basically a free-for-all webnovel site for everyone to see

the western equivalent to this would be like ao3 or wattpad but with the capital incentive that the stuff that gets really popular will have comics/animated adaptations years down the line, so the cycle of ripping off from others in more extreme or generic ways accelerates since everyone can see what's getting popular on a daily basis

(there's already that trend about filing off the serial numbers on fanfics and publishing them, but i'm not as caught up on that since it's outside my sphere of interests)

Another redraw of an iconic Yuri(Ish) manga/anime with the birds

me on October 20th thinking bandai was going to try and sell us another NFT grift

On December 23rd

Ya I'm down for a new digimon series and some more digimon

The new flagship digimon this time looks like an Archaeopteryx

that's pretty cool

looking forward to it

The New Card Game Project has been revealed

DIGIMON LIBERATOR

An online web series based on the card game, with serialization starting in January 2024!

My thoughts under the cut

I'm sure nobody can tell, don't worry about it

I drew the Prettyplaty crew having a little fun picking out pumpkins for Webtoon's oc-tober thing There's also a new page to read on Webtoons at https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/the-prettiest-platypus/list?title_no=463063

The Prettyplaty crew are back at the Fall festival for #WEBTOON_OC_tober Luckily this drawing won't take as long to post as the almost a year that the actual fall festival took lol

It's time for the Prettyplaty crew to pick some apples for #WEBTOON_OC_tober

Lillie got to meet a black cat for #WEBTOON_OC_tober... and it didn't go well