AI + the self-ecosystem is awesome - plain and simple. It brings your individualism to content that can be consumed worldwide and generate revenue, for yourself. I mean, damn - they got us working jobs when we all could have been doing purposeful profits to do for self. 

The webtoon is a big industry worldwide, many people in America may not realize it but it is a massive media industry overseas. If you was ever on a public transport in Korea or Japan or Taiwan, you would have seen several people looking at their phone, reading webtoon content. 

GPT Image 2 and SeedDream make it extremely easy now to make webtoons and very inexpensive - you can use my NightCafe referral link to get 20 free credits - that’s 20 webtoons you can create using GPT Image 2 Low which most of my examples in this article were created with. And everyday you get a free creation and get more free credits everyday so you are essentially paying next to nothing if anything to start your webtoon publishing venture. 

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In this article I want to talk about how to create your webtoon operation by focusing on themes and universe, establish consistent characters, webtoon style, and the business side of things to get money from your webtoon. 

Webtoon Production

The above webtoon is our very own DJ Nixze who operates a “pickup and delivery” service - she is a master thief like Lupin the Third. But she also has that Kino’s Journey swagger where she will sling out guns and get herself out of any complications from her mission. 

The prompt to create these webtoons is straightforward and let me share the prompt for this webtoon here. 

“create a multi-panel retro manga strip, using the model sheet of the woman, she is casing a store from the rooftop discussing how to enter after dark.”

That’s all you have to prompt in GPT Image 2 Low mode, but this one was created in GPT Image 1.5 previous version and still came out good. 

There are 3 elements I want you to understand on creating your webtoon like this one: 

Universe and Theme. You should have generated a description of the world and universe and scenery with reference photos to add to your prompt. It is best to create the scene or generate a good description that is consistent with the universe. Think of the set of a TV show, you can create a sitcom webtoon in the same house like Good Times or House of Payne. I would go last century to the Honeymooners and I Love Lucy and Mary Tyler Moore show setup and steal their skits and put your own twist to it. 

Consistent Character. If you look at the prompt I made carefully, you will see I stated “the model sheet of the woman” because that is what I attached to the problem as the reference image. We spoke about creating consistent characters by just creating a new prompt stating to create a model reference sheet of (your character) and use this for all of your future webtoons to keep the same character. 

Webtoon Style. There are various styles of webtoons rendered or drawn. In the example above, I used “retro manga” but you can use anime, graphic novel, modern, vintage, or a political editorial style. 

Revenue Model

If you look at the photo of Mimoka.Made.It, this is a graphic novel book that can be published and sold on Amazon or as a PDF magazine format or in a bookstore with the other manga books. But we are getting ahead of ourselves but just wanted to show my adopted Akibas how much opportunity and revenue streams she can pursue. 

Let’s cover the type of revenue models to make money from your web toons. 

Subscription Model. You can use an existing platform like Patreon or Substack with paid subscribers and make this your content, this would be quick and you can set everything up 15 minutes after reading this article and start your enterprise. But you can create your own using a paid subscription email list, a blog or web site that allows users to login with Google or Apple and pay for the subscription with GPay or ApplePay. 

Syndication Model. This is a model where you allow syndicators to syndicate your webtoon on their platform. This is the same as the United Syndicate company that existed for newspapers that show comic strips of cartoon artists. My only issue with this approach is how they dropped the Dilbert cartoonist for saying racist stuff about being fearful of Black people. It isn’t about what Scott Adams said, it’s the fact you are putting at mercy people with the power to drop you and mess your pockets up - I don’t recommend this but if you want to do this, I would stay anonymous. MochaStar media will be able to accept your syndication as well as Kossier and will discuss this separately. 

Publishing Model. This is where you can create physical webtoons instead of digital in graphic novel book, a calendar, postcards, on a mug and you Akibas can sell these at an anime trade show booth while cosplaying as Mimoka.Made.It and as a bonus - you can display QR codes to subscribe to the paid digital subscription version. 

Marketing Model

This is Clara Ney and actually a snapshot from her upcoming chillhop videos that will be streaming soon. I’m not necessarily trying to have a paid subscription here, I’m creating additional depth of content to keep her fans engaged. Notice Clara Ney webtoon is saying something positive and probably can say something positive and inspirational each day as the webtoon in addition to having the readers check our her chillhop station, and her social media feed where we can publish these webtoons there as well. 

For marketing, the most efficient way to get started right now is to create the webtoons for social media and then tell people how to subscribe to the platform or find it on Patreon or Substack. 

It’s Time for The Self-Ecosystem to Shine

You want to know the cool part? You can launch this right now and if it blows up, you can switch up and move overseas and this is one of your revenue stream mixes. You don’t have to be stuck here in the hood around negative people. You can be up in Barcelona or Paris or Shibuya or Bangkok and be a webtoon creator at the same damn time. 

What is even more beautiful is you can create content with AI and do it with automated workflows such as N8N or OpenClaw. This is similar to the procedural generation article I wrote about a while ago. What you want to do is create a Google Doc in Google Drive that describe your character, philosophy, what they going through like relationships, unemployment or employment, financial decisions, quality of life, fitness, fun hobbies like eating ice cream, then you use either Gemini or Claude attached to your Google Doc or N8N to generate cartoons. 

Be mindful that some platforms like Krea have an API interface that allows N8N and OpenClaw create the webtoon then store the image file in your Google Drive folder and you just wake up and review all the webtoons created and schedule them for a future release date.  That’s a lot more efficient than blogging like my old self after writing all these articles and yall not paying a brotha or breaking something off. 

You have pure freedom with webtoons to get started right now, create the characters and universe, create the automation to generate images to drop in your Google Drive folder and put it on a paid content platform like Patreon or Substack, to make money, right now! 

The biggest takeaway is AI + self-ecosystem that creates content based on your individualism and you are now contributing your creatives as a product for the world to consume. There is no stopping you now and the world is yours to make moves in after that.