Rachel smythe website6/5/2023 Although Rachel Smythe lives and works in New Zealand, her work-and its engagement with pressing issues like sexual assault-reaches a global audience. Webtoon has had a significant impact on global webcomics more generally, and as one of the most popular comics on the platform, Lore Olympus forms an outsize portion of that influence. Meant to be read on the Webtoon app (though also available via web browser), Smythe designed Lore Olympus to be scrolled through, and thus, it lacks the traditional page turn, allowing for the use of different techniques than those in traditional print comics. In Smythe’s ongoing, Eisner-winning, Hugo-nominated webcomic Lore Olympus (2017-present), readers “Witness what the gods do.after dark” (ellipses in original) through Smythe’s adaptation of the Hades and Persephone myth.
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