would Line Webtoon or Tapastic (or what was its name) work?
I'm not sure. Lezhin seems like the largest and most known webtoon publisher in korea and outside korea though I think there are other sites that caters artists with their webtoon. Maybe also because of the popularity of the site and other reviews says that the quality uploaded in Lezhin is really good compared to other sites. I don't really know other webtoon publishing sites so I really don't know what to say but I hope that if the problem with Lezhin is not solve, a better webtoon publishing site can come out to cater our beloved artists.
To be honest, Tapastic would not be a good idea to cater manhwas as it usually posts english comics, and you would not find a lot of non-speaking english people there. At best, they can make an income from translated comics. Though it is a good source of income as more people will be able to donate to them.
For Line Webtoons, the artists will have to post their art on Discover first, and the only source of income will only be the Patreons or Ko-fi. If they did not make it to Featured, they will not get a stable income. I do have faith that Lezhin's artists are qualified enough to get to Featured, but the competition is pretty high I must say. One more thing, Line Webtoons has this policy to censor the sex scenes, so if for example Window Beyond Window put its comic on Discover, chances are most of it will be just white, lol. I don't really have suggestion on what company will support Lezhin artists the most though, but I hope they will find it! My thoughts go to the artists!
Hm, yes, but given that these are biiig artworks, I wonder if Line wouldn't try out a less vanilla version, and I think they could work on their audience and income sources too. Plus it's earning popularity among the worldwide fans, which is awesome, and artists would get exposure to the rest of the world officially. Otherwise, platforms like Lezhin, as cool as they are, they keep up this barrier between the author and the community. And the quality is just amazing, for both PC and smartphone. (Wow, I should work in Sales, but so should you guys, I really like your reasoning).
Since their first launch, Line Webtoons always make sure the comics on Featured are suitable for all ages. I do hope they will include an age verification or something like that so they can cater more mature audiences. Line Webtoons has a large number of audiences from all over the world, including Korea due to their quality, and I do think they can benefit more from comics that are less vanilla.
About Lezhin, yes, it is a cool website, however due to the problems arising, Lezhin is no more cool :(. One thing that makes Line Webtoons and Tapastic different from Lezhin is that you can read comics for free on Line Webtoons and watch ads to earn money to buy comics from Tapastic. This is a cool feature as most of their audience are not financially stable or has no proper job yet. If Lezhin is actually a cool website, I will suggest this feature, but I couldn't care less about them now.
(Finally all that hardwork in Business Studies class paid off, I don't like businesses)
(Your hardwork paid off really well, my fella!)
webtoon artist have the right to protest. I don't want to make a speech here, you can read things here:
http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=3043759
and here:
http://www.themagicrain.com/2018/02/whats-up-with-lezhin-a-summary/
It's really sad that we're not going to have S3 because of Lezhin. Now I'm scared that other webtoons might do the same. Now it reminds me that there's also something going on in china and I'm also worried about other manhua...
I hope the artists can find a better site that will cater them so we can read all their beautiful works...