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Clinic of Horrors is a webcomic created by Merryweather and PokuriMio and published on WEBTOON with 66 million views in 2022. The webcomic tells the story of the nurse Bianca Abercrombie, who works on Albright Clinic, a place that treats strange and supernatural diseases in a dystopian society. [1] [2]
In 2022, Clinic of Horrors received the Ringo Award for Fan Favorite New Series. [3]
Bianca Abercrombie is the main character of the webcomic. She works at the Albright Clinic, which is owned by her friend and employer Dr. Charlie Albright, as a part-time nurse and still goes to school. [4] Bianca has pink hair, pink-blue eyes as well as a pink, white and blue nurse uniform. She has blue and pink bandages around her arms for unknown reasons which is featured in a side story in the webcomic. [5] Because she often tends to be a still person and because of her bitter attitude, she does not have many friends excluding her school friend Sarah and the mutation Michaelis, who is featured in the 13th Episode titled "The New Guy". [6] Because of pheromones Michaelis appears to everyone else as a handsome boy, but Bianca is vacinated so she sees his real appearance. [7]
Dr. Charlie Albright is the employer of Mrs. Abercrombie and the owner of the Albright Clinic. He makes his first appearance in the second Episode of the series. [8] He wears pink glasses, has blond short hair and nearly always a white coat with pink and blue accents which are very similar to that from Bianca's uniform. He takes his job as a doctor very serious even if it does not seem like it because of his jolly personality. Charlie also sells illegal drugs to rich people and has an arrangement with Mr. Yellow, the CEO and Owner of the Yellow Cooperation.
VG Cats is a webcomic written and drawn by Canadian cartoonist Scott Ramsoomair. Published on its own website, it follows the adventures of a pair of anthropomorphic cats, who both have an interest in video games, and often play the roles of characters in popular games that are parodied in the strip.
In contrast with mainstream American comics, webcomics are primarily written and drawn by women and gender variant people. Because of the self-published nature of webcomics, the internet has become a successful platform for social commentary, as well as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) expression.
Webtoon is a South Korean webtoon platform launched in 2004 by Naver Corporation, providing hosting for webtoons and compact digital comics. The platform is free and can be found both on the web at Webtoons.com and on mobile devices available for both Android and iOS.
Sarah's Scribbles is a webcomic by Sarah Andersen started in 2011. Andersen initially published the webcomic on Tumblr, but has since released it on various services, such as Facebook, Instagram, Tapas and her own website. Sarah's Scribbles follows Andersen's experiences as a millennial and focuses on themes such as adulthood and maturity. The comic receives millions of views on the Tapas platform and has won multiple Goodreads Choice Awards and a Ringo Award. Andersen has published four print collections of the webcomic: Adulthood is a Myth; Big Mushy Happy Lump; Herding Cats; and Oddball.
The Mike Wieringo Comic Book Industry Awards, commonly shortened to the Ringo Awards, are prizes given for achievement in comic books. They are named in honor of artist Mike Wieringo and they were founded by the Reisterstown, Maryland-based Cards, Comics, & Collectibles shop alongside the Ringo Awards Committee in 2017, their ceremony meant to succeed the Harvey Awards which left the Baltimore Comic-Con as its venue in 2016.
Notable events of 2018 in webcomics.
Lore Olympus is a romance webcomic created by New Zealand artist Rachel Smythe. The comic is a modern retelling of the relationship between the Greek goddess and god Persephone and Hades. It began publishing weekly on the platform Webtoon in March 2018. Lore Olympus is currently the most popular comic on Webtoon; as of March 2024, it has 1.4 billion views and 6.5 million subscribers. The comic has won two Eisner Awards, two Harvey Awards, and two Ringo Awards. It was announced in 2019 that a television adaptation was under development.
Shen is the pen name of cartoonist Andrew Tsyaston, the creator of the comic series Owlturd, Shen Comix, and Bluechair, and the co-creator of Live With Yourself. Shen Comix has 2 million followers on Instagram while Bluechair has 1.2 million subscribers on Webtoon.
Adventures of God is a comedy webtoon created and respectively written and illustrated by Italian Matteo "Teo" Ferrazzi and American Corey Jay. The comic explores the relationship between God and his sons Jesus and Lucy and the angel Gabe and demon Ebag after confirming the existence of the afterlife to humankind. It began publishing weekly on WEBTOON in November 2016. As of August 2019 it had 100 million views, and as of April 2021 WEBTOON reported that it had 1.4 million subscribers. The comic has been nominated for a Ringo Award in the Humor Comic category, ranking second behind I Hate Fairyland. Adventures of God is published in print by Rocketship Entertainment and was Kickstarted in October 2019.
SubZero is a fantasy romance webcomic created by artist Junepurrr. It follows the marriage between a princess and prince from rival clans arranged in order to end a war. It began publishing weekly on the Webtoon platform in 2018. According to data from Webtoon, it had received 73 million views by the end of 2019. The comic won a fan Ringo Award in 2020 for Favorite Hero.
My Giant Nerd Boyfriend is an autobiographical comic by Malaysian artist Fishball, following Fishball, her tall, nerdy husband, and their Pomeranian dog, Biscuit. Since the couple got married, the title at the start of the current chapters includes "*now Husband".
Let's Play is a romantic comedy comic series by Leeanne M. Krecic, also known as Mongie, which is published by Rocketship Entertainment. Let's Play was published digitally on Webtoon from 2016 to 2022. It follows the romantic and professional life of Sam Young, who is discovering romance as she works on her video game development career.
Hooky is a fantasy adventure webcomic written and illustrated by Catalan author Míriam Bonastre Tur. Originally serialized as a webtoon on Naver Corporation's Webtoon app from 2015 to 2020, Hooky was eventually released in print by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2021.
Heartstopper is an ongoing LGBTQ+ young adult graphic novel and webcomic series written and illustrated by British author Alice Oseman. It follows the lives of Nick Nelson and Charlie Spring as they meet and fall in love. The series is a prequel to Oseman's 2015 novella, Nick and Charlie, although the characters originally appeared in her 2014 novel, Solitaire.
unOrdinary is a superhero webcomic written and illustrated by American artist Chelsey Han, better known as "uru-chan". It was serialized on Tapas from November 2015 until January 2016; it has been published weekly on the platform Webtoon since May 2016, with its chapters collected into two volumes as of July 2024. The story follows a powerless high school student named John Doe navigating a world full of superpowered people. The narrative focuses on how a society built on raw strength affects those at the bottom of hierarchy, and the brutality of the institutions that are used to enforce it.
Stephanie Quimco, better known as Quimchee, is a comics artist. She is author of WEBTOON series I Love Yoo, published since 2017. The webcomic tells the story of Shin-Ae Yoo, a young girl who finds herself the subject of fascination of half-brothers Yeong-Gi and Kousuke.
Kaitlyn Narvaza, better known as instantmiso, is an American comics creator of Filipino ancestry. She is a WEBTOON original creator since 2015, when launched the webcomic Where Tangents Meet. After this one, she published Siren's Lament, which was a great success with more than 430 million views, followed by Eaternal Nocturnal.
Cursed Princess Club was a weekly webtoon written and illustrated by LambCat. The strip began publishing on February 24, 2019 on Webtoon and ended on March 4, 2024. The strip was published in seasons, of which there are four, and during these seasons new comics were published on a weekly basis every Monday.
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