Harmony Korine is jumping into a new artistic medium.
The eternal enfant terrible behind Kids, Spring Breakers and a growing slate of radical, tech-driven art projects has unveiled Katch, a high-concept anime-inspired webtoon that marks both his debut in the medium and the latest expansion of his Miami-based creative studio EDGLRD.
Created by EDGLRD for WEBTOON, the global webcomic platform, Katch is a serialized digital comic that follows “a young ocean obsessive drawn into a hidden world beneath the sea, where a secret society hunts leviathans rising from the abyss.” Illustrated by Laura Sakuraki (Million Dollar Bride) and colored by Ling Chen, with a prologue by Daylen Seu, the project uses EDGLRD’s mixed-media production process, incorporating CG tools, animated panels and interactive musical elements in select chapters.
The project launches on global storytelling platform WEBTOON as part of what EDGLRD describes as “its ongoing exploration of anime-inspired storytelling and hybrid digital work,” continuing Korine’s ambitions for his studio to operate far beyond the confines of traditional film and television.
Founded by Korine in Miami, Florida in 2022, EDGLRD — pronounced “edgelord” — has become an enduring cultural curiosity operating at the intersection of film, gaming, fashion and generative tech. Its first big splash came at the Venice Film Festival in 2023 with AGGRO DR1FT, an 80-minute, Travis Scott–co-starring fever dream shot entirely through thermal lenses and built to feel less like a movie than a game-like, hallucinatory experience. Korine described the project at the time as something he “doesn’t even really consider a movie,” likening it instead to an event or an immersive artwork, and said EDGLRD was created to explore the coming convergence of media formats.
Korine returned to Venice again in 2024 with Baby Invasion, another hybrid film-videogame that pushed his experiments with AI and interactive aesthetics a step further, using Runway’s generative tools to create its unsettling baby-mask visuals — a collaboration that later grew into a formal first-look deal between EDGLRD and the New York-based AI company.
EDGLRD’s Eric Kohn, Harmony Korine and Joao Rosa attend a photocall for “Aggro Dr1ft” at the 80th Venice International Film Festival in Venice, Italy.
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That pact, announced last spring, allows EDGLRD to deploy Runway’s generative tools across its films, immersive projects and brand work, while also giving Runway access to Korine’s boundary-pushing creative output. “This open up all kinds of creative output — visual styles and identities that haven’t been explored before,” EDGLRD chief commercial officer Alon Soran told The Hollywood Reporter, arguing that the technology lets artists “take anything inside your brains and bring it to life immediately.”
Katch now becomes the first narrative project from EDGLRD to debut as a serialized webtoon — one designed for a mobile-first, global readership.
“Katch marks the beginning of EDGLRD’s ongoing exploration of anime-inspired storytelling and hybrid digital work,” the company said, framing the title as a new pillar in its expanding, cultish universe.