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Web comics were pretty big in the West for a while, too - I guess they never really got large enough to be commercialized and produced on an industrial scale, t
by leggomylibro 7y ago
Web comics were pretty big in the West for a while, too - I guess they never really got large enough to be commercialized and produced on an industrial scale, though.
The article mentions that a lot of these webtoons are vertically-oriented for smartphones; is that what sets them apart? Or is it more of a genre thing? Did they maybe crank up the production values a bit?
https://xkcd.com/157/ https://xkcd.com/157/
- intertextuality 7y agoIt may be a little bit of A, a little bit of B. Anecdotally I can tell you I've seen many, many people reading webtoons on their phones on the subway. I've done it. The vertical format in this case is perfect.
- thedaemon 7y agoDefinitely the vertical oriented for smart phones. You cannot view them in a page layout. Makes me kind of sad because I don't look at content on my small smartphone, instead I use a large LCD monitor or a large tablet. These webtoons are annoying to try to read on them. :( Makes me sad that I won't be able to read any because of the annoying interface.