Much of the love of her work was propped by the fact that Webtoons already had a built-in audience. Smythe’s “Lore Olympus” would become her most popular work when it was published in 2018 as it would go on to attract millions of readers across the globe. Since she started posting her artwork online in the early 2000s interest in her work fluctuated over the years until she published Lore Olympus.

She then decided to become a freelance author of comic works. Rachel Smythe got her bachelor’s degree in Computer Design and Graphics from the Whangunui School of Design in 2007. When she is not writing her webcomics she loves to do coffee, skincare, snacks, manicures, folklore, cartoons, podcasts, and movies. She is also a huge supporter of the “Black Lives Matter” movement and regularly posts her support on the different online platforms. Smythe often engages with her fans on Twitter and Instagram where she reposts their cosplay and artwork. In addition to her writing, she is known to attend several comicons around the world.

She published “Lore Olympus: Volume One” her debut in 2021. What is amazing about the author is that she has managed to achieve all her massive success even though she has been suffering from anxiety, ADHD, and dyslexia. However, she has been active in online spaces since 2002, when she began posting her works on all manner of platforms on the web. The thirty-something-year-old author has been working as a freelance illustrator and designer for “Lore Olympus” since 2018. Rachel Smythe is a folklorist and comic artist from Wellington, New Zealand that is best known as the author of “Lore Olympus,” the internationally successful webcomic.

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