Miyuli on the magic of MORGANA AND OZ

Morgana and Oz by Miyuli is the story of a struggling witch who meets an angsty vampire, resulting in both love or warfare. And this yr, the hit WEBTOON collection is getting a print adaptation! Morgana and Oz Volume One from WEBTOON Unscrolled will gather the first nineteen episodes. Scheduled for publication on August 6^th, 2024, you may get your first take a look at the cowl of proper right here, in the present day at The Beat!

To mark the event, The Beat caught up with Miyuli over electronic mail. We requested all about the origins of Morgana and Oz, what it’s been prefer to see the WEBTOON collection get a bodily adaptation and Morgana and Oz‘s singular spellcasting language. Plus, be sure and scroll all the way to the bottom to check out the cover. And please use the comment section to let us know if you’ll be choosing up the graphic novel when it arrives in August!

AVERY KAPLAN: What was the genesis of Morgana and Oz?

MIYULI: I’ve all the time loved tales about magic and vampires, ever since I used to be a pre-teen, so these themes got here naturally to me. The first time I drew Morgana and Oz there wasn’t a lot of a narrative but. I used to be sick at the time and easily needed to cheer myself up by drawing a cute couple of a tall witch and a shorter protecting vampire. People appeared to take pleasure in this idea so I stored working on it and it lastly turned the webcomic we see in the present day.

KAPLAN: What has it been prefer to see Morgana and Oz make its strategy to the bodily web page? How concerned have you ever been with the translation from WEBTOON to graphic novel?

MIYULI: It has already been nice seeing their story taking form on the cellphone display screen and I can’t wait to carry the printed pages in my fingers in September. We have many proficient folks working on changing the webcomic right into a readable bodily format, and I’ve been serving to as a lot as I can whereas additionally creating new chapters on WEBTOON each week. Mostly, I attempt to replace the artwork a bit and supply bonus materials for the books. I’m actually grateful for all the assist I’m getting with the printed model.

KAPLAN: The characters in Morgana and Oz have such fascinating names. Do any of them have any inspirations you’d be prepared to share?

MIYULI: For the witches in my story I made a decision to provide them surnames which have one thing to do with vegetation, therefore Morgana’s surname being Winterberry. I preferred “Morgana” for the mythological connection to Morgan le Fay, who was additionally an apprentice of Merlin. There is not any precise connection to Merlin in my story however there’s a title that’s imagined to be an anagram.

The vampires often have old school names (Adelheid) or they’re utilizing nicknames or pseudonyms (Shiba and Dima) for varied causes. I preferred the title “Oz” for my most important vampire as a result of of its connection to wizardry. “Rory” appeared like a cute nickname for a foolish character who seems to be a bit extra severe and tragic.

It’s actually enjoyable to provide you with names, however I usually ask my viewers on social media for solutions and allow them to vote on my favourites (a few years in the past, Morgana and Oz received the ballot).

KAPLAN: What was the origin of the fascinating spellcasting language?

MIYULI: I affiliate magic with alchemy, which has a plethora of fascinating symbols which can be primarily based on components and supplies. I added extra loosely associated symbols for these components and the spellcasting language in Morgana and Oz was born. Since I work in a visible medium, I believed it was enjoyable to make use of symbols as a language, however after I was requested easy methods to pronounce them, I needed to significantly suppose of the way it might sound. In the finish we went for Latin phrases performed backwards.

KAPLAN: Do you have got any favourite fictional (and/or real-life) cats?

MIYULI: I really like cats however sadly I’m allergic to something that has fur. I nonetheless acquired a cat for my mother and father, so she’s most likely my favourite. When it involves fictional cats, I actually like Jiji from Kiki’s Delivery Service. Another witchy companion cat can be Salem from Sabrina the Teenage Witch. As a baby I additionally actually preferred The Artistocats and Tom and Jerry.

KAPLAN: While working on Morgana and Oz, what’s your inventive routine like (you probably have one)?

MIYULI: Before I begin drawing a brand new season, I’m going via quite a bit of brainstorming and writing with my editor so I find yourself with a really rudimentary script for at the least 30 chapters. Based on that, I create tough thumbnails to see how the circulation of the episode is and if the dialogue works. For each episode I sketch out the thumbnails in a extra cohesive method and add backgrounds. Once the line work is finished, I give it to my assistant to do the colour flats. Lastly, the ultimate step consists of shading and including particular results and speech bubbles. That’s often what the weekly course of seems like.

KAPLAN: What comics, motion pictures, music or another type of media impressed Morgana and Oz?

MIYULI: I really like listening to film and recreation soundtracks, and the ones with a magical contact are accompanying me whereas I write the scripts for Morgana and Oz. Especially music by Cecile Corbel and Yann Tierson have been an inspiration. I’m additionally very fortunate to have music by Isabella LeVan in some of my WEBTOON episodes. She’s extremely proficient, so she knew precisely what I needed for my story.

When it involves motion pictures, I clearly took inspiration from Ghibli motion pictures like Kiki’s Delivery Service and Howl’s Moving Castle. There might need been much more inspiration that got here from Diana Wynne Jones’ Howl’s Moving Castle and Chronicles of Chrestomanci books. In my teenagers I beloved collection like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and musicals like Dance of the Vampires.

I’m additionally fortunate to reside in Europe, so there are quite a bit of older cities with a witchy ambiance and a robust connection to outdated European fairy tales, which has been an inspiration as an entire.

KAPLAN: Since that is the cowl reveal, is there something about the cowl you’d prefer to share?

MIYULI: The cowl illustration was created 4 years in the past. Back then I needed to push my abilities and persistence to the restrict for these two characters and their story, so I’m glad it made it as the cowl for the first quantity. It has been up to date barely, however I by no means modified it an excessive amount of since I used to be nonetheless very proud of the unique outcome. I don’t often go all out for illustrations since I spend most of my time drawing foolish character interactions, however I hope new and outdated readers will take pleasure in it.

KAPLAN: Is there the rest you’d like me to incorporate?

MIYULI: I’m excited to see the story of Morgana and Oz go to print and I hope folks will take pleasure in holding the bodily copies of their fingers simply as a lot as I’ve been having fun with creating the story.