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It’s a new week and we have a lot coming at you! Kicking things off, here’s some comic related news you might have missed over the weekend.

How to Love Comics – Where To Start Reading Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan) Comics [Reading Order + Guide] – If anyone wants to get reading before the show!

ICv2 – Tapas Merges with Prose Platform – Some interesting moves!

DC Comics – Read Four of DC’s Eisner-Nominated Comics…for Free! – Read some of what’s nominated!

The Mary Sue – The CW Boss Implies Superheroes Still Have a Place There Despite Cancellations – Well sure, if they bring viewers and cost the right amount.

Yen Press – Open Positions at Yen Press – They’re hiring!

Ms. Marvel

Around the Tubes: Maus, Tapas Deal with Andrews McMeel, and Sales are Up

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Justice League Incarnate #4

It’s new comic book day! What has everyone excited? What do you plan on getting? Sound off in the comments below! While you think about that and wait for shops to open, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web.

The Jewish News – You Can’t Just Swap Out ‘Maus’ for Another Holocaust Book. It’s Special – Thoughts?

The Beat – Tapas signs with Andrews McMeel for multi-book print deal – Smart move.

The Beat – Report: Periodical comics sales were up 49% in 2021 – Remember, comics are dying.

Reviews

CBR – Deadpool: Samurai Vol. 1
CBR – Justice League Incarnate #4

Dr. Brain Launches on Tapas

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Dr. Brain

Tapas and Kakao Entertainment have announced the hit Korean webcomic, Dr. Brain, will be available in English for the first time on Tapas. The science fiction thriller, written and drawn by Hongjacga, was recently adapted for television by director Jee-woon Kim and is now streaming globally on Apple TV+. The webcomic launch on Tapas will mark the first time the content is available in English. Dr. Brain will launch with three episodes and update on Thursdays.

Dr. Brain centers around a genius neuroscientist, Sewon, who connects to the brains of the recently deceased and discovers clues to murder cases. The webcomic is an electrifying depiction of Sewon’s struggle as he tracks down the suspects. 

Produced by Kakao Webtoon Studio and originally released in Korea in 2016, Dr. Brain boasts more than 20 million accumulated views across Korean platforms Kakao Webtoon and Kakao Page. Now, fans watching the Apple Original series, which stars by Lee Sun-kyun, can dig even deeper into the Dr. Brain world with the webcomic on Tapas.

Enter the House of Slay from Einhorn’s Epic Productions, Jeremy Holt, Soo Lee, Kimi Lee, and Kevin Wada

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Injustice, greed, and prejudice are running rampant, the vulnerable are in danger, and we need help from someone with the power to make an impact; a hero, or even better, a whole team of heroes. This is the foundation of the entire superhero genre, so it’s great to see a new take that goes all the way back to those roots in social justice. And that’s what you’re about to read in House of Slay, the brand new superhero comic from Einhorn’s Epic Productions (EEP), now available to read on Tapas!

The origins of House of Slay date back to the tumultuous events of last year, with the ongoing struggle for racial justice gaining momentum and anti-Asian hate crimes on the rise. Fashion designers Prabal Gurung and Phillip Lim,Laura Kim of Oscar De La Renta, and their friends Tina Leung and Ezra J William had banded together for support and solidarity as members of the AAPI community in fashion, making their voices heard on social media and at Black Lives Matter demonstrations. But with AAPI voices so often sidelined in the Eurocentric fashion world, they wanted a stronger, more visible presence.  

Turned into superheroes by the EEP creative team of writer Jeremy Holt, cover artist Kevin Wada, artist Soo Lee, colorist Kimi Lee, letterer AndWorld Design, and editor Alex Lu, House of Slay follows these real life friends on a fantastic adventure as they use their newfound abilities to face off against a villain powered by the hatred of everyday people. It’s a story told with real heart, steeped in comics history with an “othered” group of people protecting the innocent and trying to make the world a better place. And of course, our heroes are dressed to slay!

Yen Press Announces a Print Release of The Beginning After the End

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Yen Press has announced the graphic novel release of The Beginning After the End, the immensely popular webcomic written by TurtleMe with art by Fuyuki23 based on the Tapas original novel. The Beginning After the End stands out as one of the most read series on the leading digital publisher of webcomics and novels Tapas.

King Grey has unrivaled strength, wealth, and prestige in a world governed by martial ability. However, solitude lingers closely behind those with great power. Beneath the glamorous exterior of a powerful king lurks the shell of man devoid of purpose and will.

Reincarnated into a new world filled with magic and monsters, the king has a second chance to relive his life. Correcting the mistakes of his past will not be his only challenge, however. Underneath the peace and prosperity of the new world is an undercurrent threatening to destroy everything he has worked for, questioning his role and reason for being born again.

The launch date of the physical release of The Beginning After the End will be announced by Yen Press in the near future.

The Beginning After the End

Kakao Entertainment Acquires 100% Stake in Tapas

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Continuing their global mission to create super IP across multimedia platforms, the leading digital publisher of webcomics and novels, Tapas Media, Inc., has been acquired by Kakao Entertainment in a cash transaction announced today. The acquisition will expand Kakao Entertainment’s original content business in North America and other English-speaking regions.

The terms of the agreement give Kakao Entertainment a 100% stake in Tapas, for a transaction valued at $510 million. CEO and Founder, Chang Kim, will remain in his role as CEO and become a Global Strategy Officer within Kakao Entertainment. Kim will provide insight into the US Market while continuing to focus on developing IP on the Tapas platform.

Headquartered in Los Angeles, Tapas is a pioneer of mobile storytelling platforms in the US and have found success in the rapidly growing mobile stories market with more than 8 billion pageviews of 96,000 original series – both webcomics and digital novels. Tapas’ microtransaction-based digital currency (Ink) empowers readers to directly support their favorite creators and stories, generating revenue for creators.  Tapas saw five times year-over-year revenue growth in 2020, averaging more than $2M per month for creators, making it one of the top 3 grossing comic apps in the US.

Tapas have spent almost a decade dedicated to developing a creator-first ecosystem with an open publishing platform and creator community. Tapas is not just a creator platform, it also produces original content with creators – content that expands into additional business opportunities including development deals in film and television, book publishing, audio, and other ancillary business. Recent Tapas announcements include Scholastic signing global publishing rights for the critically-acclaimed Studio Tapas original series Magical Boy – releasing as a graphic novel on November 2, 2021; a partnership with Zoic Studios for television and cross-platform adaptation of the AI thriller Tapas original, Mnemosyne; and Frolic Media and Madison Wells are producing a scripted podcast and developing the TV adaptation of the modern office-place romance series, Yes, My Boss!. The expanded partnership with Kakao Entertainment furthers this mission broadening creator opportunities on a global level as they are a leader in the Korean web novel and webcomic industries, with a successful track record of creating super IPs made into secondary formats such as films, TV series, games, and live performances.

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Reckless: Friend of the Devil

It’s one of two new comic book days! What are you all excited for? What do you plan on getting? Sound off in the comments. While you decide on that, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web.

The Beat – Korean webcomics platform Kakao plans massive US expansion, and possible Tapas acquisition – Intriguing…

Kotaku – Fortnite Made Over $9 Billion Between 2018 And 2019 – About 9 billion reasons for all of those crossovers.

The Beat – A Year of Free Comics: Life gets unexpectedly complicated for LUMINE – Free comics!

Reviews

That Hashtag Show – Beasts of Burden: Occupied Territory #2
CBR – Reckless: Friend of the Devil

Tapas Celebrates Female Creators for Women’s History Month!

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Tapas Women's History Month

Tapas continues to forge ahead celebrating creators and for the month of March the spotlight will be on female creators in support of Women’s History Month!

While much of the entertainment industry continues to strive to diversify their community, Webcomics have long had a diverse creator community who are able to find their audience and tell their stories with a high percentage of female readers and creators. In fact, Tapas boasts a female readership of 78% and an amazing 65% of Tapas creators are female.

Here’s a chance to discover new comics and possibly voices you don’t often hear from. Take advantage with this easy guide that Tapas has put together.

Rest Area 51 from Coleman Engle and Caleb Goellner Launches on Tapas on February 24

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The digital publisher of webcomics and novels, Tapas Media, has a new Studio Tapas original series, Rest Area 51, with a galactic arrival set for Wednesday, February 24. Rest Area 51 is the first collaboration of two of the comics communities’ most respected creators, Coleman Engle – one of the lead artists for the acclaimed Kaboom! series, Steven Universe, and Caleb Goellner – contributor for IDW Publishing’s hit series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Sonic The Hedgehog, among many more titles across the industry.

Rest Area 51 follows the delightful adventures of Grayce Green, a pre-teen who moves to her late grandma’s Area 51-themed rest stop. Thinking she was about to have the most bummer summer ever, Grayce soon discovers this is anything but your typical gas station: it’s an intergalactic alien rest stop! Together with her super-smart space engineer best friend Starla and the half-cactus turtle in an alien half-shell Torctus, the crew go on out-of-this-world adventures. Stopping plant zombie apocalypses, defeating evil alien empires, Grayce and pals do their best to help extraterrestrial travelers on their way to a rumored paradise planet so long as the alien obsessed, super weird, government goon Agent Schwarz doesn’t catch them first…

Rest Area 51 will launch on Wednesday, February 24 with the first three episodes. The 24-episode first season will be available for free on Tapas and will update twice weekly, Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Rest Area 51

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Future State: Nightwing #1

It was new comic book day yesterday. What’d you all get? What’d you like? What’d you dislike? Sound off in the comments below! While you think about that, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web in our morning roundup.

Publisher’s Weekly – Tapas Sees Big Gains for Digital Comics – This is the comic space to watch. Webtoons have a massive reader base and it’s only going to get bigger.

Reviews

The Beat – Abbott 1973 #1
Games Radar – Avengers #41
Collected Editions – Doctor Fate Vol. 1: The Blood Price
The Geekiary – Future State: Nightwing #1
The Beat – Terminal Punks #3

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