Hello everyone! I'd like to announce that Paranoid Mage has been licensed by Webtoon for a, well, Webtoon adaptation!
WEBTOON Expands its IP & Creator Ecosystem With Webcomic Adaptations of Hit Web Novels
WEBTOON will grow its slate of series in 2023 with adaptations of fantasy, LitRPG, and romance content from renowned web novel publishers and platforms
Erratic Erratas A Practical Guide to Evil, Zogarths The Primal Hunter, and Paranoid Mage by InadvisablyCompelled are among the hit web novels getting webcomic adaptations on WEBTOON
Los Angeles, Calif. (Jan. 18, 2023) So of the biggest nas in web novels and web fiction are coming to WEBTOON, the worlds largest digital comics platform. The company today announced a series of deals and a slate of content that will see popular web novels adapted as webcomics on WEBTOON, giving fans a new way to enjoy their favorite web novels in a serialized webcomic format.
As part of the new webcomic slate, WEBTOON has partnered with so of the most exciting publishers in web novels and web fiction. WEBTOON will adapt popular titles from Aethon Books and Moonquill, as well as WEBTOONs Wattpad and YONDER platforms.
The new slate of web novel adaptations expands WEBTOONs global IP & creator ecosystem, which now includes webcomics, web novels, serialized fiction, TV, film, podcasts, audiobooks, and print publishing. WEBTOONs family of brands include WEBTOON, Wattpad, Yonder, and Wattpad WEBTOON Studios. Together, this IP & creator ecosystem allows WEBTOON to adapt IP across a variety of formats, turning fan-favorite stories from each brand into multi-format franchises, reaching new fans around the world and helping creators monetize their work in new ways.
Web novels are one of the most exciting new categories in fiction, with new voices bypassing traditional publishing to share their stories and build global fandoms online, said David Lee, VP of Content at WEBTOON. With richly-built worlds that take genre fiction in creative new directions, web fiction is uniquely positioned for web comic adaptations. We know WEBTOON readers and web fiction fans will fall in love with these stories in their new visual format as webcomics.
Among the first group of titles that will receive webcomic adaptations in 2023, are Zogarths The Primal Hunter series, which has sold more than 100,000 eBooks and 50,000 audiobooks across nine volus; InadvisablyCompelleds Paranoid Mage series, which has over 3.5 million views online and has sold more than 25,000 ebooks, reaching Amazons top ten bestseller list for Urban Fantasy; and Erratic Erratas A Practical Guide to Evil, which has over 30 million views online for the completed series.
You can read about it here!
As you can see I'm in so pretty illustrious company too!
How this affect you, the reader? It won't. Paranoid Mage will continue and complete as usual, but soti in the future it will also be available in a visual format, and isn't that neat?
Although I guess it ans we'll have to actually see Callum's face...
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