Author: Joey Manley

WebcomicsNation.com, a new hosting and automation service from Modern Tales (the leading subscription-based webcomics provider), will be debuting in September.

Unlike Modern Tales and its sister sites, WebcomicsNation.com will be open to all cartoonists.

The service will be ideal for those cartoonists who are considering jumping onto the webcomics bandwagon, but who are not particularly adept at developing websites. Those cartoonists who wish to try to make a little money with their online comics will be especially well-served by signing onto WebcomicsNation.com: all the necessary programming and back-end database work for you to sell subscriptions to your content, or to sell individual pieces of work via micropayment, will be already in place. All you have to do is make your comics. Continue Reading →

Acclaimed avant-garde online webcomics anthology http://www.serializer.net, a sister site to Modern Tales, the leading publisher of subscription-based webcomics, announced this week the debut of five new series from five acclaimed comix creators. Continue Reading →

Joey Manley writes:

For quite some time, we’ve offered free forum hosting for webcomics over on talkaboutcomics.com. I had a link to my email address at the top of the site, and people would email me. And sometimes I’d make the forums. And sometimes I’d forget.

I know I owe a lot of you people forums, but my Modern Tales duties always came first — and my email inbox fills up quickly. Things get buried.

Anyway, Indigo Kelleigh of Circle Weave has volunteered to take over talkaboutcomics.com forum administration, and has instituted a new policy. To get a forum, you should post to this thread:

http://www.talkaboutcomics.com/viewtopic.php?p=46703#46703

… and follow the directions that Indy posted at the top of the thread. Hopefully, this will help us to manage new forum requests in a more efficient manner. And if you’ve requested a forum in the past, even in the distant past, and never received it — please forgive me, and please post a new request in the thread linked above.

Thanks!
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ModernTales.com headlines Eddie Campbell in an
Australian invasion across July!

July 7, 2003 — Eddie Campbell, the illustrator of the award-winning graphic novel From Hell, will be appearing in Modern Tales Longplay as part of a month-long focus on Australian creators. The writer and artist of the critically acclaimed Alec: How to be an Artist and head ego behind the eclectic EgoMania magazine will be joined by writer Daren White for ‘The Playwright’, a series of short stories about “love, lust, fertility and the importance of quality footwear”.

The July issue of Longplay — launching July 7 — will also showcase work by twenty Australian creators, making it the first time that ModernTales has focused attention on a single country outside of the US — taking advantage of the truly international ‘stage’ of the World Wide Web. Continue Reading →

In this episode of The DivaLea Show, Joey and Lea review the comics they bought, or chose not to buy, this week (the latest issues of Finder, Birds of Prey, Sentinel, Beware the Creeper, Batgirl: Year One, and Bagge’s Sweatshop), and then discuss Mark Waid’s firing, which leads to a debate on the ethics of Work-for-Hire.

Guest Donna Barr explains how she knows her ass is worth exactly $300 in seat-covers, talks about all her latest projects, gives a verbal tour of The Midnight Library, and talks about how she’s using a carefully structured blend of webcomics, traditional offset printing, and Print-on-Demand to keep her readers happy.

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The brash harmonics and simple lyrics of rock and roll burrow down into your deepest subconscious… they inspire millions, and some of them are cartoonists. The new edition of Modern Tales Longplay focuses on the music, with a three-week ‘Rock and Roll Interlude.’ Continue Reading →

Modern Tales, the leading publisher of subscription-based webcomics, announced this week that cartoonist Phil Elliott will be producing weekly installments of Pool Tales for the avant- garde online webcomics anthology serializer.net.

According to Elliott, his weekly POOL TALES series, which is exclusively available to serializer.net readers is “a kind of road-movie, in comic-strip form….and marks the re-appearance of an old friend of mine, Dave Gimbley, travelling with his cue and meeting new folk…some friendly, some not-so. You don¹t need to know how to play pool or enjoy going to pubs, but along the way you may learn a few things about the game, the sights and smells of a British pub, and Gimbley himself.”

Phil Elliott has been creating comics for almost two decades, appearing in various magazines and papers around the globe – Escape, NME, Punch and Real Ghostbusters in the UK; Fox Comics in Australia; Cheval Noir and Prime Cuts in the US; L¹Echo des Savanes in France…and etc. “I’ve even drawn my token Judge Dredd story for 2000AD,” he adds. Continue Reading →

In this episode, Lea interviews cayetano garza jr., Joey bitches about the Direct Market (or is it more properly “schemes against” the direct market?) and listeners find out what Lea thinks about SCAD.

http://www.talkaboutcomics.com/divaleashow

This episode’s a pip. You must listen.

Offered in three formats: Windows Media, RealAudio, and streaming MP3. For the deaf: sometimes our listeners post transcripts in the DivaLea Show Forum (also available from the above URL). Sometimes they don’t.
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http://www.talkaboutcomics.com/divaleashow

The audio quality has improved tremendously this time around. I’ve also posted the show in three, count’em, three formats: RealAudio (playable in RealPlayer), Windows Media (playable in Windows Media Player) and streaming MP3 (playable in both RealPlayer and Windows Media Player, as well as a host of other audio applications, like WinAmp, MacAmp, Sonique, and so on and so on and so on).

The guest is Spike, creator of Lucas and Odessa over on girlamatic.com:

http://www.girlamatic.com

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