In this short and playful story, Donald and Popop run a hotel in the mountains. Their peaceful routine changes when a group of mysterious guests checks in for a few nights. Suspicion quickly replaces hospitality. Are these visitors simply eccentric travelers, or could they be hiding something more dangerous? As the tension rises, Donald, Popop, and the other residents begin their own investigation, blending comedy, curiosity, and mild suspense in a way that remains accessible to younger audiences.

Donald Duck Short Stories: Ski Buddies and what Webtoonization Means for Disney Stories

Webtoonization is more than converting printed pages into a digital file. At Printoonize, webtoonization projects involve fully rethinking the layout for vertical reading. Instead of traditional page-based composition, the story unfolds panel by panel in a scrolling format optimized for smartphones and tablets.

Our team restructures each scene to enhance pacing and clarity. We adapt transitions to create suspense between panels, especially in moments where Donald’s doubts or comic misunderstandings escalate. Visual beats are spaced deliberately to maintain rhythm and readability, while preserving the original tone of the story.

In a short story like Ski Buddies, webtoonization allows humor to breathe. Reactions can appear in isolation, pauses can heighten comedic timing, and reveals can feel more dramatic within the vertical flow.

A Collaborative Digital Adaptation

This webtoonization Disney Donald Duck project relied on close collaboration between specialized professionals. Tess Brunet handled the layout adaptation, restructuring the original material into a smooth vertical sequence that respects both storytelling and readability. Jérémy Vaslin took care of the lettering, ensuring that dialogue placement supports rhythm and clarity without overwhelming the artwork. Meanwhile, Axelle Wasier oversaw proofreading to maintain consistency and linguistic precision throughout the adaptation.

Together, their work ensures a coherent and engaging digital experience aligned with Disney’s standards!

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Originally created in a traditional comic format. This story has been webtoonized by Printoonize for Ducktoon, Disney’s webtoon platform dedicated to young readers. The result is a digital reading experience designed for modern screens, without losing the warmth and humor of the original story.

A humorous and emotional Christmas story brought to life through Donald Duck webtoonization

In this story, Donald is encouraged by Uncle Scrooge, always eager to save every possible coin, to skip Christmas celebrations altogether. For Scrooge, avoiding festivities seems like the perfect way to cut costs.

However, things change when Goldie, Scrooge’s long-time love, sends him a letter announcing that she will spend the holidays with him. This unexpected news reshapes Scrooge’s priorities and brings Christmas back into focus, with all its emotions, memories, and contradictions.

Through lighthearted comedy, Donald and the Christmas Not to Celebrate explores themes of family, love, and tradition, making it a perfect holiday story for young audiences.

What webtoonization means at Printoonize for Donald Duck

Webtoonization is the process of adapting a print comic into a vertical, mobile-friendly webtoon format. At Printoonize, this transformation goes far beyond a simple layout change.

Printoonize carefully restructures each page for vertical scrolling. The team reorganizes panels to improve rhythm, readability, and narrative flow on smartphones and tablets. They also adjust scene transitions to create suspense, pauses, and emotional beats adapted to digital reading.

For a Disney title like Donald and the Christmas Not to Celebrate, webtoonization also means respecting the original artistic intent while adapting it to a new generation of readers. The goal is to preserve the storytelling spirit while enhancing accessibility and comfort.

A collaborative production by Printoonize

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Available on Ducktoon, Disney’s webtoon platform for children, this story brings Powerduck back into action in a format perfectly suited for mobile reading.

A high-energy adventure across realities

In Powerduck: The Day of the Cold Sun, the Razziator is once again causing trouble. This time, his goal is to seize a rare and powerful energy source to fuel the Altronef, a device capable of traveling between multiple realities.

As expected, Powerduck steps in to stop him. Throughout the story, fast-paced action blends with a playful tone. As a result, young readers enjoy an engaging narrative filled with suspense, humor, and heroic moments. Moreover, the winter sports backdrop adds visual energy and movement to the adventure. Altogether, the story balances excitement and accessibility, making it ideal for younger audiences discovering webtoons for the first time.

What webtoonization means at Printoonize through the webtoonization of Powerduck (Disney)

Webtoonization is not a simple visual conversion. At Printoonize, it is a complete editorial and technical process that transforms a print-based story into a digital-first, vertical reading experience.

This involves rethinking pacing, panel flow, and composition to fit mobile screens. Scenes are reorganized to guide the reader smoothly from one moment to the next, while maintaining narrative clarity and emotional impact. For children’s content, readability and rhythm are especially important, ensuring a comfortable and immersive experience.

With Powerduck, webtoonization allows the story to breathe differently. Action sequences feel more dynamic, transitions are clearer, and the overall experience becomes more intuitive for young readers using tablets or smartphones.

A dedicated production team for the webtoonization of Powerduck (Disney)

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The difficult art of webtoonization

But behind this financial fireworks display lies another crucial factor: the painstaking work of webtoonization.

At Printoonize, we are proud to stand at the very heart of this transformation. Since the beginning of 2025, our dedicated teams have been adapting some of the most iconic Marvel and Star Wars titles into the vertical scroll format. This isn’t just resizing panels: it’s a true visual and narrative reinvention designed for mobile-first audiences and the global Webtoon generation.

Turning a breathtaking two-page comic spread into a seamless vertical reading experience requires craft and precision. It means rethinking pacing, reframing artwork, repositioning speech bubbles, and ensuring that the original impact of the scene not only survives but often feels even stronger in its new digital life.

The recent success of Webtoon on the stock market is therefore not only the result of a major strategic announcement. It’s also powered by the behind-the-scenes work of studios like Printoonize, who breathe new life into beloved stories by bringing them into the scroll format. And this is just the beginning.

Our Printoonize service is rapidly scaling up, with a growing team ready to webtoonize more and more high-profile Marvel series in the months ahead. This cultural and technological shift is underway, and we are proud to be among the pioneers shaping the future of comics.

Disney’s move into the Webtoon ecosystem isn’t just a new chapter for its franchises: it’s a signal that the vertical scroll format has become a global standard. In this transformation, the studios that know how to translate legacy content into vertical storytelling are already leading the charge. At Printoonize, we’re not watching it happen, we’re building it.

Want to bring your stories into the new era of digital comics?

Contact us today and discover how Printoonize can transform your content for the Webtoon generation.

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This isn’t just a fusion of formats; it’s a three-way cultural conquest. It’s an unprecedented alliance between powerful American IPs, Korean distribution technology, and European expertise in narrative adaptation.

When Captain America Changes His Battlefield

Symbolically, seeing Captain America move from traditional comic book panels to the webtoon universe is like watching a general abandon a rigid battlefield map for vertical guerrilla warfare. The rigid pages, the turning, the word balloons frozen in a classic comic structure are gone. In their place is the scroll, a fluid narrative, and a mobile-first rhythm.

America is no longer speaking through physical fascicules sold in comic shops. Its myths are now deployed in the palm of your hand, on a screen, in a format designed for a connected global generation.

The Power of Comic to Webtoon Conversion

The US storytelling migration is taking place on Webtoon, the explosively growing South Korean platform. Webtoon is a massive export of the Korean narrative format, and in just a few years, it has become the gold standard for Gen Z readers. Vertical reading, natural scrolling, and mobile-optimized design: this formula works, and now attracts the biggest Western franchises.

With over 100 Marvel, Star Wars, Disney, and 20th Century titles in the process of conversion, the star-spangled banner now flies in scroll format. The first to lead the way is none other than Captain America, an emblem of the US, who is now reaching young readers worldwide, directly on their phones thanks to the Avengers webtoon series.

MAKMA, the European Asset in New Global Storytelling

In this three-continent operation, the cultural bridge is French, more specifically, from Bordeaux. The MAKMA studio, already a key player behind the scenes of American comics, is at the center of the game. Its role is to handle the technical and narrative metamorphosis of print works into the webtoon format.

This isn’t a crude job of cutting up pages. The process is a work of artistry. It involves deconstructing the original narrative, understanding it in depth, and then reconfiguring it for the scroll. This expertise was developed by MAKMA’s Printoonize! division, which is exclusively dedicated to this type of comic to webtoon conversion.

Bryan Wetstein, who heads the division, sums it up:

“Captain America was designed to embody a certain American reading experience. Our job is to ensure he speaks with the same power in a Korean format. It’s a balancing act between respecting the original material and adapting it for a new ecosystem.”

Darth Maul, Modernity in Scroll Mode

To embody this generational shift, Disney isn’t relying on overused figures. Darth Maul, a cult but and contemporary antagonist, is a visual, sharp, and mysterious character, perfect for a pixel-by-pixel narrative.

On a smartphone, Maul takes on a new dimension. His silhouette, style, and almost religious silence, everything lends itself to a vertical build-up of tension. He becomes the symbol of this move toward a more direct, fast-paced narrative that’s compatible with the fleeting attention span of the digital age.

Europe as a Cultural Strategist

What’s striking is that the point of contact between two giants (the US and Korea) is in Europe. MAKMA doesn’t just translate; the studio acts as a full-fledged cultural operator. It’s a player capable of understanding American narrative imperatives and Korean aesthetic expectations, and making them all work together in a new language.

This strategic role is built on over two decades of experience in translation, lettering, writing, and publishing, collaborating with the biggest names in the industry. This versatility gives MAKMA a major advantage. At a time when storytelling has become a global commodity, knowing how to precisely adapt it is a powerful tool.

The US Market in the Midst of Redefinition

Captain America is more than a hero; he’s a narrative territory, a way of telling the world from an American perspective. Seeing him migrate to a mobile format is witnessing a re-carving of the market. US storytelling, once centered on print and TV series, is now digitizing, globalizing, and adopting codes from Asia to continue existing in the minds of young readers.

In this context, MAKMA acts as a creative customs agent, a mandatory checkpoint for transforming a work designed for Midtown Manhattan into content ready to scroll in Seoul, Jakarta, or São Paulo.

The Scroll, a Global Playing Field

The vertical format is no longer a gimmick; it’s the new standard. It’s replacing pages, absorbing panels, and transforming dialogue. It’s breaking down boundaries between styles. And in this new grammar, MAKMA’s role is to translate the DNA of the biggest franchises while preserving what makes them unique.

The challenge is technical, narrative, and aesthetic, but it’s also symbolic. It’s about bringing the myths of the 20th century into the interface of the 21st.

A French Studio at the Heart of the Shift

Perhaps the most surprising part is this: the operational heart of this revolution is in France. An independent studio, skilled in both Marvel standards and webtoon demands, has become an essential link in the new global chain of graphic entertainment.

This isn’t a coincidence. It’s the result of smart positioning, strategic choices, and the ability to read the evolution of formats before others do.

The World Scrolls, and MAKMA Keeps Pace

With the Avengers, Captain America is moving from the battlefield to screens. Darth Maul is reinventing himself for readers’ thumbs. Disney is relying on Webtoon to speak to a generation that no longer reads comics but scrolls for hours.

And on this new world map, MAKMA draws the invisible lines, the ones that allow an American narrative to land in a Korean format, thanks to European expertise. Thanks to Printoonize!

It’s a serious business of unicorns, pixels, and perfect timing.

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With 100 titles in development, the global entertainment giant aims to bring its iconic characters to a format designed for mobile, fast reading, and a younger audience. Spider-Man, Darth Vader, Belle… all will soon be scrolling vertically on your screen. Why this strategic move? Because in just a few years, webtoons have become the preferred narrative channel for a generation that no longer reads comics the traditional way.

And behind this quiet revolution, a French team is playing a key role: the MAKMA studio, through its Printoonize! service.

For over 20 years, MAKMA has refined a unique expertise in adapting comics, graphic novels, and manga. Today, that same expertise fuels a new momentum: webtoonization. Transforming traditional works into fluid, immersive digital stories takes far more than resizing panels. It requires a complete rewrite of rhythm, dialogue, and layout. An alchemy that MAKMA has mastered like few others.

“Seeing icons like Spider-Man or Darth Vader move into the webtoon format confirms what we’ve been witnessing for years: this format has become a universal language to reach a new generation. For MAKMA, it’s a unique opportunity to bring our expertise to stories that travel from one continent to another, while proving that Europe can play a key role in this new era of visual storytelling.”
— Damien Gay, Chief Operating Officer at MAKMA

That adaptation work is being led by MAKMA’s Printoonize! division, a team specialized in transforming traditional print comics into vertical webtoon formats, and vice versa.

“Adapting Disney comics into the webtoon format is more than a job, it’s a true challenge! What matters most in this process is fully understanding the page composition and knowing how to translate it into a vertical reading model. That’s where our team truly shines. It’s a colossal task that demands highly trained and ultra-efficient people, but it’s also a real joy to work on licenses that make both kids and grown-ups dream.”
— Bryan Wetstein, Head of the Printoonize! division at MAKMA

The Disney–Webtoon partnership is the ultimate recognition of a format long seen as niche. And it’s a historic opportunity for European creators. Because when global pop culture icons shift to this new medium, it’s clear that the future of visual storytelling lies here.

France has a card to play. With its mastery of transcreation and a multiplatform vision, MAKMA proves that it’s possible to elevate graphic culture while speaking the language of today.

Those who still see webtoons as a passing trend are going to miss the train. This isn’t evolution. It’s a paradigm shift.

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