Who Created The Original Velamma Adult Stories Series?

I found Velamma one lazy evening on a crappy website which hosted some of the sketchier web comics online. But once I started reading, it became one of those things which I wouldn’t stop talking about to my friends. The comic was created by an Indian Studio called Way2Comics (or Way2Cartoon) as the creator’s name is sometime stylized and referred to in different places. Way2Comics was the original writer and illustrator for the comic, and they also distributed it on the web, and packaged it into mobile apps for the comic to reach a larger audience.

The actual content of the comic, aside from the creator name, is somewhat of a case study for internet comics. A very provocative character is created by a studio, and then the comic explodes on the web. All sorts of fan art and short-animated clips start appearing, as well as several ‘clones’ to the comic in various forms of written or drawn content. All sorts of controversy starts appearing in the form of shots of extremely explicit content (for a web comic) getting taken down from various platforms. In short, Way2Comics created a character and then packaged the comic in short episode form for web sites and apps. All the various translations (in English and in various Indian languages) of the comic seem to stem from the initial creative work of Way2Comics.

On the one hand I am impressed how a small studio is able to create something of that quality and have it be so widely distributed. On the other hand, this is also the material that sparks a lot of debate about taste and legality and for that reason I won’t go into more detail here. It’s credit where credit is due, Way2Comics were the people who put Velamma on the map and thanks to them the rest of the content is possible.

For the ‘Velamma’ comic series, the origin is a Indian webcomic studio Way2Comics, who initially created the characters and the story for the comic. They published the first episodes online and managed the distribution on various websites as well as for apps.

One can very easily see how the product of one creator can so easily snowball into a much greater whole. When Way2Comics initially released ‘Velamma’, it was only natural for a host of other platforms and medium to re-release the same story, and thus ‘Velamma’ became a coveted product that people spoke of within their respective communities. This is typically how internet-born stories reach greater mass, and a personal highlight of mine in tracking its continued popularity is it has become something that people often discuss in everyday life.

Way2Comics is often credited to be the group behind the comic “Velamma” when you look up comic threads on various websites or check out Indian comic apps. It was this team of creators that conceptualized the comic, the look and feel of the main characters and the overall tone of the story. Way2Comics is not a solo creator but a small team of artists and writers. The team is credited for creating the various episodes of the comic and also for creating versions of the comic in multiple languages.

Note that a creator credit can sometimes seem to get jumbled up when there are portals or apps reselling the same comics (possibly even edited) that Way2Comics had originally released. As a matter of historical record, though, it was the Way2Comics team that came up with the idea, created the characters, did the design work for the comics, created the storylines for the comics and wrote the comics. Today, their unique approach to a webcomic is a model for a short, self contained adult comic released on a regular basis that can be read by a fan in a single sitting on a shelf, which is then monetized by means of advertising, and download revenue, typically via ad networks.