Modern Tales, the leading publisher of subscription-based webcomics, announced this week that TokyoHigh, a new series by cartoonist George Panella, has joined the lineup of its flagship website ModernTales.com. New episodes of the manga-influenced series will appear on the site every Tuesday and Thursday. Like other Modern Tales comics, the latest episode of the series will be free, but past episodes will only be available to subscribers. Continue Reading
Modern Tales, the leading publisher of subscription-based webcomics, announced this week that cartoonist Dean Haspiel will be producing weekly installments of BILLY DOGMA for the avant-garde online webcomics anthology serializer.net.
Haspiel’s weekly BILLY DOGMA series, which is exclusively available to serializer.net readers, tells stories of cavalier vagabond, Billy Dogma, in the post-disaster adventure chronicles of the last romantic anti-hero. In the coming weeks, this series will launch with two short stories, “Aim To Dazzle,” and “Little By Small,” before diving into the long form picture novella “The Devil’s Muumuu” — where Billy Dogma accidentally rips Jane Legit’s competition dress and his overwhelming guilt sends him to Hell. Stranded in the netherworld, Billy opens old wounds about his long-lost mother when he strikes a bargain with legendary serial killer Ed Gein! Continue Reading
Modern Tales publisher Joey Manley posted this request on his daily blog this week:
Do you know PHP and have access to a Macintosh? If so, help!
For some reason, people using the Safari browser (Apple’s new browser) are unable to log into any of the Modern Tales family of websites. The problem seems to be that the Safari browser (which is currently in beta) is not accepting the cookie we use to maintain login state. As far as I can tell, the cookies we use are coded correctly, according to standard — and they work on every other browser we’ve used for testing, from Netscape 4.x all the way through to the latest Opera. I don’t have access to a Macintosh right now, so I can’t debug, and have found no clue of Safari cookie problems or solutions to same on any PHP message boards. If you can help me to test and debug, I’d really appreciate it — and will happily hand out a free lifetime subscription to any one of our websites to the person or people who can help me find the solution. To volunteer, pop me an email: joey@moderntales.com.
Modern Tales — www.moderntales.com — announced today that the fifth installment of its “longform comics anthology” Modern Tales Longplay is now available, with numerous features, including several brand-new “American Splendor” stories by Harvey Pekar and longtime collaborator Gary Dumm.
As Modern Tales subscribers and watchers know, one of our series, Patent Pending, by Jon Rosenberg, has been on hiatus for several months now.
After several long (but friendly) talks with Jon, we’ve decided to remove the series and open up the slot for somebody new. There are lots of people who would like to have their comics featured on Modern Tales, who maybe haven’t reached the level of success that Jon has reached, and it only seems fair to give them a chance. I want to stress that Jon and Modern Tales have made this decision mutually, and that Jon is very much still a part of the Modern Tales “family” — he will remain on our advisory board, and will still and always be a friend.
So, on to the submission stuff. Continue Reading
I’ve often thought that the Modern Tales business model could be applied to web animations as well.
I’m starting to get cocky, maybe, from the success of my webcomics “empire” — but it’s really looking like what we’ve done on MT could work for animation as well. I built my websites’ content management and subscriber access systems to be compatible with Flash animations and/or RealVideo streams from the beginning, so I could literally turn a few knobs and have such a site up and running. Continue Reading
Modern Tales, the leading subscription service for professional webcomics, is one year old today! Don’t look for any special fanfare just yet: Joey Manley and company are too busy building new features (and launching new websites) to stop for too long to look back. Continue Reading
The first in-depth overview of the line-up of girlamatic.com, along with full-color pictures, will appear in the upcoming issue of a Seattle-based technology news weekly. You can download the story in Adobe Acrobat form, temporarily, here:
http://www.studioopolis.com/CSM_girlamatic-1.pdf Continue Reading
‘Fantasy is more than special effects, billion-dollar book deals, and slouching Goth teens,’ says Joe Zabel, editor of the webcomics anthology Longplay. To prove it, he’s devoting an entire issue of the anthology to comics in the fantasy genre.
This issue includes: Chutney Point, a 152-page graphic novel by Indigo Kelleigh; Kara, Kali, and the Wind by Michael Cohen; One Good Turn and The Heir by A. P. Furtado; The God of the Orchid by Mat Tait; Beyond Belief by Eric Millikin and Casey Sorrow; and The Prince of Stories by Ed Humpal. Continue Reading
Talkaboutcomics, the free forum site for small press and webcomics creators run by Joey Manley, is opening up its 24/7 Nightstar Network IRC chat channel to other cartoonists and creators who wish to host their own live events.
Manley said, “We’re hoping it will work sort of like a 24/7 webcomics convention, with press briefings, interviews, panel sessions, book club meetings — whatever people want to do.” The channel will have no sponsorship or membership requirements, according to Manley. “It’s just a service. Nightstar was kind enough to grant us use of their servers — we’re extending our invitation in the same spirit of community-building that Nightstar has shown to us.” Continue Reading
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