“To finish the episodes on time, I no longer slept”: the difficult working conditions of the authors of Webtoons

Finished the paper edition.

Comics are moving into the digital age with webtoons.

Designed especially for smartphones, these comics 2.0 can be read vertically by “scrolling”.

The stories are cut into episodes, each designed to be read in minutes.

In recent years, this new content from Korea has begun to establish itself in France.

For example, the Korean group Naver launched the French version of its Webtoon application at the end of 2019, which has 2 million monthly users.

This phenomenon has not escaped young authors.

, specifies Clémence, better known by her pen name, Salen February.

This format has a significant advantage for these creators.

Rather than receiving meager advances on royalties as is the rule in French publishing – a system that forces many authors to combine jobs – Webtoon artists perceive…

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