▲This image captured from Twitter shows "Lore Olympus." (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)

 

▲This image captured from Twitter shows Rachel Smythe holding the trophy of the Eisner Award for Best Webcomic. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)

 

 

SEOUL, July 24 (Yonhap) -- The “Lore Olympus” which Naver WEBTOON picked up from the North American armature comic website "Canvas", was recently awarded with Eisner Award which is considered to be the Oscar of the web comic’s world.

According to the web page of “San Diego Comicon International”, Rachel Smythe’s ”Lore Olympus” has been selected as the Eisner Award Winner for Best Webcomic on Sunday.

Nominee, Navillera by HUN and Jimin was unfortunate with the result.

Webtoon, “Lore Olympus” is a remake of Greek god Hades, and goddess Proserpina’s story with hint of romance, healing, growth and more added to it.

Along with drawing a lot of attention and getting positive feed backs from the global readers, “Lore Olympus” is setting series of award winning records. “Lore Olympus” received the “Harvey award” which was created in 1988 to commemorate famous American cartoonist and the editor, Harvey Kurtzman, under the digital book of the year.

Subsidiary of Naver, Webtoon Entertainment shared Rachel Smythe’s award winning news along with the tweet “From comic sharing platform for armatures, Canvas, to Eisner award winning, Rachel continues to share her passion of storytelling.” Expressing their thoughts on author Rachel Smythe.

The Eisner Award originates from Will Eisner, who is considered to be the pioneer of the American cartoon industry, the first ever Eisner Award was given out in 1988. The Eisner Award is known for its fame and honor, also it is considered to be the Oscar of the cartoon industry.

In 2014 Eisner award introduced a new segment Digital and Web comic, following in 2017 web comics have been evaluated separately.

 

 

(This article is translated from Korean to English by Joonha Yoo.)

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