I was talking to a friend the other day about how it feels like manhua/longstrip webtoon comics has yet to experience its creative peak. Looking back at the hi

I was talking to a friend the other day about how it feels like manhua/longstrip webtoon comics has yet to experience its creative peak. Looking back at the history of manga, it is possible to see how new innovations have played with and manipulated standard ideas of paneling and framing to produce fascinating and artistic work. A seemingly constrained format (small-size black-and-white comic book) becomes a canvas for extraordinary creative expression. Longstrip comics are not worse than manga, of course, but it feels like creators have yet to explore the edges of the format. What can a longstrip do that a traditional book can’t? How can the limitations of the format be turned into strengths? I wonder if this will come to pass, and how long it will take.