Dashtoon is a startup (founded in late 2022) digital comics creation platform that promises to revolutionize the comics industry by allowing anyone to create their own webcomics using generative AI, and to distribute and monetize their creations via the Dashtoon app. Licensed in Delaware USA and doing business as Dashverse Corp, it's yet another shiny entry into our new AI-crazed reality, and has garnered venture capital investment and positive media coverage.
Via its Authors Program, Dashtoon also licenses books and stories and turns them into comics, covering all production costs and paying authors a royalty. It also appears to be looking to license already-published comics for distribution on its platform. Here's an example of the emails it has been sending out (this is a form email; I've seen several of them):
I've also had the opportunity to see a number of Dashtoon contracts, both exclusive (for book adaptations) and non-exclusive (for distribution of already-published work).