The Visual Language of Webtoons

Recently I’ve been thinking about webtoons – which is the name given to Korean (and Chinese) style webcomics which have been optimized for reading on mobile devices (ie phones). How do they do it? Well, at first glance it looks like they take the normal panels of a comic book page and then simply present them as one long vertical strip instead of a single page at a time layout.

So instead of this…

Bakuman, Vol1, Page 1.

A Webtoon looks like this…

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