I got a nice e-mail from Heewoon Chung of Netcomics today with some good news: Netcomics now supports Safari and Firefox browsers on Mac OS, which means that many, many more people can check them out. Netcomics launched in January with an ambitious 10 titles, and several have been getting good word-of-blog, notably The Great Catsby, which is available for free viewing.
Netcomics offers web manwha, and while I’ve only viewed a few of their titles (because of that browser thing), the format is noticeably different. For one thing, they are in color, which can be a mixed blessing. Also, they are not designed as individual pages but as a continuous chapter that scrolls down the screen. It’s a little disorienting at first, but in a title like Catsby (which I admit I’m not a fan of) it does work well. Netcomics is also offering the comics in printed form; Catsby is coming out this week, priced at $17.99 because it’s in color (which elicited an “ouch” from David Taylor, followed by some interesting comments from manga maven Ed Chavez). It will be interesting to see how well the continuous web format translates to printed pages.