D’Well Studios retells Scripture as comics, art and merchandise for a modern, global audience, working across Nigeria and Canada. Its flagship series, Tales of Us, tells Bible stories with bold illustration and a Nigerian voice: Peter warming his hands by the fire, swearing in Pidgin that he no know this Jesus, just before the rooster crows.
The studio needed more than a brochure. It needed a place where people could actually read the comics, then stay for the next story, the shop and the mission.
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Comics break on most websites. A full page of art squeezed into a blog post loses its speech bubbles, and a PDF download loses the reader. D’Well needed Tales of Us to read the way comics are meant to be read, on a phone, a tablet or a laptop, without the interface getting in the way of the art.
Around the reader sat everything else a growing studio needs: a library that grows with every story, sign-ups, a shop, campaigns and a way to give.
A comic-book visual language from the first screen: ink black, lime and paper cream, distressed headlines, and panels with thick borders. Every page was designed for mobile, tablet and desktop, so the art reads well on whatever screen a reader picks up.
A reader built for comics, not documents. Reading is free: sign in with email or Google, and the story opens full-page art, one page at a time, with a page counter, Next and Previous, and a light or dark canvas. The library sorts stories by Old and New Testament, and every card shows the page count and reading time before anyone taps in.
Built on WordPress, so the D’Well team uploads each new comic in the dashboard and it appears in the reader straight away, on every device. Around the reader sit a memorabilia shop, a campaigns section for video and written testimonies, donation and newsletter sign-ups, and a roadmap of what comes next.
A storytelling platform with a real comic reader at its heart. People read, sign up, shop and give in one place, and every new story slots straight into the library.
13+ comics are now live, free for anyone who signs in. In the last 30 days, half of all visitors came from the United States and more than a third read on a phone, which is exactly why the reader was built to work as well on a small screen as on a desktop.
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