This is how The City is aiming to be the Best Graphic Novel of 2023
The City graphic novel team has worked hard for this new website release but that’s not all. Our goal is to be recognized as the best graphic novel, best new manga, anime books or adultcomix -whatever you want to label us as (we heard it all). We intend to meet this goal by releasing our hot new manga online for free so everyone with an internet connected device can read it! The new website also comes packed with a fully functional web store where you can buy print issues as well as The City merchandise to support the team. Lastly, we are launching a few marketing campaigns on the side to promote the best manga to read.
Let’s start one by one.
We Rebranded our Website so we can create more comics for adults and graphic novels for teens!
I actually have no clue who our target demographic is or whether we should call our work a graphic novel (that’s what we started with), a manga (or a hot new manga), a comic book for adults (we heard someone call it adultcomix), a manhwa (because I’m Korean), or an anime book (lol).
When we first started The City, we told ourselves let’s make graphic novels for teens like how when we were growing up reading Dragon Ball, Kenshin, Naruto, Berserk, or other uber violent comics. At the moment, the truth is that we don’t really know who’s reading our stuff, who’s going to buy our stuff, or what they’re calling our stuff!
With this spanking new website, we will get to the bottom of all of this. We are tracking data from the traffic we receive to make more informed decisions with everything we do. 🎉
“OMG, One of the Best Graphic Novels of All Time is now Free to Read Online!!” -David
Forgive me, but I’m going to keep rotating what we call The City. I might start calling it ‘The City anime book’ instead of our usual ‘The City graphic novel’ from now on because that’s what a gentleman told me while I was hustling and bustling at Yonge-Dundas Square. “This is one of those anime books my girlfriend reads all the time!” Well anyway, The City graphic novel is now online for free! Hope it bumps up readers and fans. Tell your friends about it! Tell them there’s a new best manga to read in town!
Put on a bullet proof vest and jump right into reading The City the hottest new manga ;)
A New Online Shop to make us the Best Selling Manga!
This is one of the main motivations on completely rebranding our old website -our shop was terrible. So I started gathering some hip new e-commerce businesses that were popular with the yungin’s. We tried to make a shop that’s clean and minimal but has a bit of a flair. Let us know what you think cuz I stayed up nights making it.
Oh, I almost forgot the real importance of the shop. Our web shop is especially important because it is the only way to financially support our project. So if you’re looking to help fund the production of The City, there’s no better way than to purchasing an issue or two or even getting one of our cool ass merch! They’re very affordable too.
Sneak peeks of Future Chapters & Other Plans for this Hot New Manga AKA the Best Manga to Read 🤣
As you can see on our Homepage, there are 3 sneak peek panels from The City – Chapter 3. We are getting more and more requests of readers who want to see the process of creation as well. So I think we will show exclusive previews on our website of the team’s creative processes. Not sure how interesting my writing process will be but the storyboarding will be a fun watch. As for Dicky’s pencil and inking, and Dave’s colouring and bubbling, they will be a treat. Stay tuned for those as I’m planning to show a lot more intuitive content in 2023! Following our Instagram is probably one of the best ways for news and previews.
Here are some super duper uber cool marketing stuff we are doing:
- Postering campaign: expect to see some The City posters around your city! If you’re in Toronto or Montreal that is. We may expand this campaign to Vancouver if we see some good conversions.
- Digital ads campaign: we are planning on trying our luck with some Google & Facebook ads. Our goal is to reach as many audience and create as much awareness. We want people to become readers of The City and we hope that this campaign will be effective in helping us do so.
- More innovative creative content: we will be producing more funny videos, news posts, and posts regarding our current product line. We are open for collaborations and working with other creators, too! Please reach out to David if you’re interested. I will also try to write as much posts on our blog as time gives.
Thank you everyone that came along our journey thus far. We hope to keep impressing y’all with more updates like this.
Stay tuned and keep it real.
Choi David,
Writer, The City (graphic novel, manga, anime book, manhwa, adultcomix or whatever you wanna call it!)
