NOVEL NEXT Not A Chapter: Webtoon Announcement.
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 publishers and platforms
Erratic Errata’s “A Practical Guide to Evil,” Zogarth’s “The Primal Hunter,” and “Paranoid Mage” by InadvisablyCompelled are among the hit web s getting webcomic adaptations on WEBTOON
Los Angeles, Calif. (Jan. 18, 2023) — Some of the biggest names in web s and web fiction are coming to WEBTOON, the world’s largest digital comics platform. The company today announced a series of deals and a slate of content that will see popular web s adapted as webcomics on WEBTOON, giving fans a new way to enjoy their favorite web s in a serialized webcomic format.
As part of the new webcomic slate, WEBTOON has partnered with some of the most exciting publishers in web s and web fiction. WEBTOON will adapt popular titles from Aethon Books and Moonquill, as well as WEBTOON’s Wattpad and YONDER platforms.
The new slate of web adaptations expands WEBTOON’s global IP & creator ecosystem, which now includes webcomics, web s, serialized fiction, TV, film, podcasts, audiobooks, and print publishing. WEBTOON’s 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 s 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 Zogarth’s “The Primal Hunter” series, which has sold more than 100,000 eBooks and 50,000 audiobooks across nine volumes; InadvisablyCompelled’s “Paranoid Mage” series, which has over 3.5 million views online and has sold more than 25,000 ebooks, reaching Amazon’s top ten bestseller list for Urban Fantasy; and Erratic Errata’s “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 some pretty illustrious company too!
How this affect you, the reader? It won't. Paranoid Mage will continue and complete as usual, but sometime in the future it will also be available in a visual format, and isn't that neat?
Although I guess it means we'll have to actually see Callum's face...