ReviewsThe Best Webtoon Collections You Can Buy in Print

The best print collections from the webtoon era are Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe and True Beauty by Yaongyi — the two titles that, per their publishers' announcements, anchored the breakout of full-color vertical-scroll comics into English-language print lines in the early 2020s. Lore Olympus' first print volume arrived from Random House Worlds' imprint line in 2021 after the digital original became one of the most-read series on the WEBTOON platform, and True Beauty's English print line followed via Ize Press, the Yen Press imprint created expressly for webtoon-era print editions. Both lines remained active as of 2025 catalogs, with new volumes solicited on regular schedules.

This guide compares what you actually get in print — page format, color, volume structure — using publisher listings as the source. It recommends editions, not investments.

What's different about reading a webtoon in print?

Everything about the page. Vertical-scroll comics are drawn as one continuous canvas, and print editions reformat that canvas into traditional book pages — per the publishers' own edition notes, with the creators' involvement in how scenes break across spreads. Print buys you three things the app can't: color reproduction on paper, shelf permanence for stories that can sit behind paywalls or leave platforms, and pagination that makes rereading a chosen arc easy. What it costs you: the scroll's own pacing, which some stories are tuned to. The collections below are the ones where the translation to page works.

Why is Lore Olympus the flagship pick?

Awards plus accessibility. The digital original's readership placed it among WEBTOON's most-followed series, and the print line — launched 2021, per the publisher's catalog — brought Smythe's stylized color work to a mass retail channel, including bookstore displays that many comics-industry reports credited with widening the graphic-novel aisle's romance readership. The print volumes collect the story in self-contained chunks with bonus art, which the publisher's edition copy confirms. Start with volume one; the myth-romance premise needs no prior knowledge of anything except the basics everyone already knows.

What does True Beauty's print line do best?

Format leadership. Ize Press positioned its True Beauty editions with premium paper and larger trim for a series whose appeal is visual — makeup transformations rendered in full color — and the publisher's solicitations have emphasized collector-grade production across its Korean-webtoon line, including Tower of God and The God of High School. If your question is "which print line looks best on a shelf," the Ize Press catalog is the current answer, as of its 2025 listings.

Which one should a completionist buy?

Check volume counts against the publisher's current solicitations before committing — webtoon print lines publish episodically and run long, with Tower of God's total print footprint particularly large. The honest completionist picks are the finished digital stories whose print lines are close to caught up; Lore Olympus concluded its main digital run per platform announcements of the period, meaning its print line has a visible end, while open-ended series like unOrdinary continue in both formats. Print catching up to digital is a pacing question unique to this category: buy volume one of anything only if you're comfortable waiting for the rest in book-sized installments.

How do you choose between app and print?

1. If you reread favorite arcs, print wins — the app's episode grid makes non-linear rereading clumsy.
2. If you follow a story weekly as it posts, stay digital; print trails the scroll by design.
3. If shelf display matters, prioritize the Ize Press line's premium trim and the Lore Olympus hardcover-style editions.
4. Check current solicitations for the latest volume number — webtoon lines announce new print volumes continuously through 2025-2026 publisher schedules.

Spoiler line — collection notes below, premise-level only.

What the first volumes set up: Lore Olympus opens with Persephone's arrival in Olympus and a slow-burn arrangement; True Beauty with a student whose makeup skill transforms her social life and the cost of that double identity; unOrdinary with a powerless boy in a school that runs on ability hierarchy. All three premises are front-loaded in volume one — no entry homework required.

One-line verdict: Lore Olympus for romance readers, True Beauty for drama and the prettiest production, Tower of God for the long-haul epic — and the whole category is the newest, fastest-moving shelf in comics, so treat publisher solicitations as the live source of truth.