Author: Joey Manley

Modern Tales, the leading subscription service for webcomics, announced today that Gisele Lagace, whose popular Keenspot series COOL CAT STUDIO won comics industry awards for “Best New Artist” and “Best Online Artist” in 2002, returns to online comics with PENNY AND AGGIE, which will run three times a week on ModernTales.com as well as pennyandaggie.com. Gisele is rejoining writer T Campbell (FANS, RIP AND TERI) for a teen comedy unlike any you’ve ever seen.

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For those who like to use RSS readers to keep up with your favorite webcomics: Modern Tales, Girlamatic, Graphic Smash and serializer.net all have daily RSS feeds. URL’s:

http://www.moderntales.com/rss.php
http://www.serializer.net/rss.php
http://www.girlamatic.com/rss.php
http://www.graphicsmash.com/rss.php

Yup, another byproduct of my work on the WCN code.

Thanks to Bo Lindburgh for his help with this! Continue Reading →

Three cartoonists associated with Modern Tales or one of its sister sites have received nominations for this year’s Eisner Awards.

Derek Kirk Kim (serializer.net)
Best Short Story nomination for “Same Difference”
Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition nomination

James Kochalka (AmericanElf.com)
Best Title for a Younger Audience nomination for “Peanutbutter and Jeremy’s Best Book Ever!”

Mike Hawthorne (Modern Tales Longplay)
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Teen Boat by John Green and Dave Roman debuts on Modern Tales Longplay today.

Here’s what Shaenon K. Garrity, the editor of Longplay, has to say:

This month’s Longplay feature is one of my personal mini-press favorites: Dave Roman’s and John Green’s Teen Boat. It’s the story of a normal teenage boy… normal except for one thing… his ability to transform into a BOAT! A small yacht, in fact. Imagine all the nail-biting, hair-raising adventures available to a boy who can live the dream of being a boat! Go ahead, imagine!


Okay, there really aren’t that many. But if you click below, you’ll be transported, through the power of the Internet, to at least one such adventure. And there are pirates in it. Yarr!

Modern Tales today announced tentative plans to launch a corporate comics service in late 2004/early 2005. “We’re still in the research phase for this,” said Modern Tales publisher Joey Manley. “But I’m fairly certain it’s going to fly.”

The basic concept: license new daily webcomic strips to corporations for exclusive presentation on their own websites, with an “enter your email address to get this comic in your inbox every day” input box underneath. In addition to the strip, the company is able to put a little marketing message at the bottom of the email every day, as well. Continue Reading →

Modern Tales’ 2003 Yearbook, “Tallscreen Edition,” is now available for purchase from Booksurge.com.

It includes full-color work by: Roger Langridge, Spike, Dean Haspiel, Donna Barr, Dan Hernandez, Chuck Whelon and Adam Prosser, Eric Millikin and Casey Sorrow, Spike and Matt, Andre Richard, Jenn Manley Lee, Drew Weing, Amanda Crichton, Daniel Merlin Goodbrey, Joda Thayer and Sam Henderson. Continue Reading →

March 2, 2004 is the second anniversary of Modern Tales. Continue Reading →

The WebcomicsNation beta proceeds apace (well, it proceeds slowly, but it does proceed). Today, we’re beta-testing the Greeting Card functionality of WebcomicsNation, appropriately enough, given that it’s Valentine’s Day.

http://www.webcomicsnation.com/greetings/
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