Acception Vol. 1: Losers
By Coco Ouwerkerk
A high school comedy drama graphic novel series
Webtoons, May 27, 2025; 288 pages
Series: Acception
Subrights Info
- Translation rights available via Webtoons
- UK/ANZ rights available via Webtoons
- Film/TV rights available via New Leaf
- Merchandising and commercial rights available via New Leaf
For fans of high school comedy drama with quirky, lovable characters, this is a comic from debut author Colourbee about love, acceptance, and surviving high school (while keeping your secrets intact). It’s the start of a new school year at Apollo High and Arcus just moved from England to the Netherlands. With his rainbow-colored hair and love of all things fashion, Arcus is anything but your average teenager. He’s an upbeat independent thinker, proud fashionista, and like the rest of us, is looking for a few friends to call his own. This won’t be easy for Arcus, because his best options for friends are prickly goth Maud and self-centered queen bee Iris.
Plus, he has to navigate being bullied for his unique brand of self-expression while balancing school life and his secret identity as a super popular fashion designer and blogger. But leave it to the always-optimistic Arcus to find the silver (and glittery) lining in everything. This volume collects Season 1 (episodes 1 to 42) of the charming WEBTOON comic Acception.
Reviews
Reviews to come
This book might appeal to fans of True Beauty by Yaongyi and Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure by Lewis Hancox.
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Author Bio
Coco Ouwerkerk (known online as Colourbee) is a comic artist/animator, born and raised in Arnhem (Netherlands). Studied two years at ArtEZ Comic Design and three years at HKU 2D animation and obtained her HBO diploma there. She has published “Small Press” comic books since 2016, including: Colourbee in de Pocket, L.O.C.O, The Meeting, together with two friends the manga Oyasumi. Her debut album, Acception #Losers, was released in December 2017 by Uitgeverij Syndikaat. This album was nominated for “Youth Album of the Year” in 2018. Since January 2019, Acception has been published together with WEBTOON as a digital comic, which can be read for free in English, French, and Spanish on the WEBTOON app. With more than 900k followers, Acception is Coco’s greatest success yet. In the Netherlands, Volume 1: #Losers, and Volume 2: #Friendship, are now available as Dutch comic albums.
Languages Spoken by Creator
Dutch, English
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