Tuesday, December 02, 2025

Webtoons

Global Manga & Webtoon Market Statistics 2024 Market Overview πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ JAPAN (MANGA) Market Size (2024): $7.74 billion USD Forecast (2030): $18.37 billion USD (CAGR ~16%) Digital Revenue: Largest segment (surpassed print ~2020-2021) Global Position: World's largest single-national comics market πŸ“Š Key Trend: Digital manga (e-books & webcomics) drives rapid growth, fueling global manga popularity boom πŸ‡°πŸ‡· SOUTH KOREA (WEBTOONS) Market Size (2023): 2.189 trillion KRW (~$1.36 billion USD) Growth Rate (2022-2023): +19.7% Webtoon Market Share: 76.5% of total comics market Revenue Model: Paid content is largest sub-segment πŸ“Š Key Trend: Digital-native, consumer-paid model drives explosive growth. Major global cultural export via platforms like Naver Webtoon & Tapas. Official data source: Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA) πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ UNITED STATES & CANADA Market Size (2024): $1.94 billion USD (+4% from 2023) Market Context: Recovery from 2023 dip, strong vs. pre-COVID Periodical Comics: Surge to 15-year high ("floppies") Graphic Novels: Mixed performance across retail channels πŸ“Š Key Trend: Post-pandemic market stabilization with strong periodical resurgence. Data source: ICv2 and Comichron market tracking πŸ‡«πŸ‡· FRANCE (BANDE DESSINΓ‰E & MANGA) Market Size (2024): ~$1.23 billion USD Global Position: 2nd largest comics market globally, #1 in Europe Format: Print dominant; digital fastest-growing segment Source: Korean Creative Content Agency (KOCCA)

Webtoons

 

Global Manga & Webtoon Market Statistics 2024 Market Overview πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ JAPAN (MANGA) Market Size (2024): $7.74 billion USD Forecast (2030): $18.37 billion USD (CAGR ~16%) Digital Revenue: Largest segment (surpassed print ~2020-2021) Global Position: World's largest single-national comics market πŸ“Š Key Trend: Digital manga (e-books & webcomics) drives rapid growth, fueling global manga popularity boom πŸ‡°πŸ‡· SOUTH KOREA (WEBTOONS) Market Size (2023): 2.189 trillion KRW (~$1.36 billion USD) Growth Rate (2022-2023): +19.7% Webtoon Market Share: 76.5% of total comics market Revenue Model: Paid content is largest sub-segment πŸ“Š Key Trend: Digital-native, consumer-paid model drives explosive growth. Major global cultural export via platforms like Naver Webtoon & Tapas. Official data source: Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA) πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ UNITED STATES & CANADA Market Size (2024): $1.94 billion USD (+4% from 2023) Market Context: Recovery from 2023 dip, strong vs. pre-COVID Periodical Comics: Surge to 15-year high ("floppies") Graphic Novels: Mixed performance across retail channels πŸ“Š Key Trend: Post-pandemic market stabilization with strong periodical resurgence. Data source: ICv2 and Comichron market tracking πŸ‡«πŸ‡· FRANCE (BANDE DESSINΓ‰E & MANGA) Market Size (2024): ~$1.23 billion USD Global Position: 2nd largest comics market globally, #1 in Europe Format: Print dominant; digital fastest-growing segment Source: Korean Creative Content Agency (KOCCA)

Saturday, November 29, 2025

Pretendian crisis


So … writer Thomas King isn’t Indigenous after all. Was Canadian media complicit in the falsehood?

Saturday, November 15, 2025

Corporate magnates trying to repackage the human…

 



 From my comic What Is The Source of Insane Ideas?, published as a standalone project in 1991 (under the pen name Seekorum), and then incorporated into my illustrated mega novel manuscript Plastic Millennium.

In this scene, Prof. Walt Whitman meets with corporate magnate Contrat Lindl. Whitman tells Lindl that military fear of nuclear wears has turbocharged research into building a super intelligent computer that has the capacity to monitor and shape human affairs.

Lindl listens to Whitman with thinly concealed impatience, countering that nuclear weapons have succeeded “in keeping the peace” for 45 years. Whitman becomes disconsolate and says fatalistically that the existence of nuclear weapons has taken on a life of its own, and is the primary factor driving research into artificiality (eg., artificial intelligence). Whitman tells Lindl that if humanity is to survive, then it must relinquish nukes. 

As soon as Whitman leaves Lindl’s office, Lindl rejoices and walks to a small shrine he’s built to Friedrich Nietzsche. Lindl is in the habit of having feverish monologues with his portrait of Neitzsche. He says the existence of intelligent computers means there now exists on Earth a “Super-Being”, and this implies that it will now be possible for humans to develop an “uber-mensch” — that is, an Overman or Superman who is a technology-driven evolution beyond the human race.

Friday, November 14, 2025

Publishing’s blind spot


Has the contemporary publishing industry developed a blind spot?

Literature After Identitarianism 
https://youtu.be/_4UG_poURl8

Friday, November 07, 2025