Castle Swimmer was the third webcomic I ever read, and it warmed my heart with its sincerity. Many queer creators gravitate toward the webcomic format because of the independence they get as creators even if they are licensed with a company such as WEBTOON.Īnd they are a great outlet for queer readers such as myself to see myself represented in media without any shame. When The Beacon gets pulled to Siren’s castle to fulfill their prophecy, together the two boys try to find a way for The Beacon to minimize the bloodshed while the shark people’s patience runs thin and a star-crossed love blooms.Ĭastle Swimmer isn’t the only queer webcomic WEBTOON hosts. Their prophecy says that in order to reverse the curse, the scarless prince needs to kill The Beacon, whose blood will then purify the Castle.
His people have been cursed by a mini-god to be a target of tragedy, bodies becoming a collection of wounds and scars until there is nothing left. Cutting to 20 years later, we met Prince Siren of the Sharks. Blatant gay! It feels really good to put that in there.”Ĭastle Swimmer starts with a ball of golden light being dropped into the ocean, cracking to reveal a mermaid with golden scales, The God of The Surface names him the beacon and destines him to fulfill all the prophecies the species of mermaids hold. And so now in Castle Swimmer, it’s just blatant. It’s more implied than rather blatantly saying it. That was gay too, but I feel like if people read it, they could still deny it.
It was about two girls and it was called Spread Your Wings. The second comic I made, it was more implied that they were gay. My first comic, which was like a very early version of Castle Swimmer, I wanted the characters to be gay, but I wasn’t out of the closet yet. It kind of took me a long time to be able to put gay characters into my comics. “ I mean, I’m gay, so it was a given there. In an interview with The Beat: The News Blog of Comic Culture, Martin explained why she chose to write a gay romance this way. One of the things that have made Castle Swimmer such a popular webcomic is the explicit queer representation that happens early and through out the comic. It has 2.2 million subscribers and it is the second most popular fantasy webcomic on the site. Castle Swimmer is a fantasy and gay romance webcomic hosted on WEBTOON by Iowan author and illustrator Wendy Lian Martin.
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