Lilydusk’s Midnight Poppy Land To Be Published in Print By Webtoon

Ringo Fan Award winner Lilydusk has offered the World English rights to the primary 4 books of her Webtoon comedian Midnight Poppy Land, an grownup graphic novel romance sequence a couple of younger girl who finds herself thrown into the damaging world of the mob – and enters right into a relationship with a mob bodyguard. “After making a grisly discovery in the countryside, a small-town book editor’s life gets entangled with a young Mafia lord and his intimidating bodyguard…even as every step she takes draws her deeper into the dangerous underworld of the city. And, keeping it in the family as it were, Midnight Poppy Land has been picked up for print by Bobbie Chase at Webtoon Unscrolled. The publication of Midnight Poppy Land is set for May 2024. Lilydusk, the North American creator of both Midnight Poppy Land and Asura’s Bride, represented herself in this deal.

Webtoon Unscrolled is a print graphic novel imprint from Wattpad Webtoon Studios, the just lately shaped entity that merged social storytelling platform Wattpad and digital comedian big Webtoon, with Bobbie Chase as its Executive Editor. Bobbie Chase is the previous VP Global Publishing & Digital Strategy at DC Comics the place she launched the corporate’s graphic novel imprint aimed toward middle-grade and YA readers, and was an Editor-in-Chief at Marvel Comics through the nineties.

Webtoon claims over 72 million readers around the globe,  is headquartered in Korea with an leisure division in Los Angeles is now underneath the umbrella of Korean firm Naver. Webtoon Unscrolled’s first wave of books included Tower of God by SIU, which has 3.5 million subscribers and 4.5 billion reads worldwide, and True Beauty by Yaongyi, which has 6.5 million subscribers and 5.1 billion reads, in addition to Doom Breaker, Cursed Princess Club, Boyfriends, and Everything Is Fine. They at present plan to publish twelve sequence a yr.