Serializer.net
 2002 logo | |
| Owner | Joey Manley |
|---|---|
| Editor | Tom Hart, Eric Millikin |
| URL | Serializer.net (archived) |
| Launched | October 1, 2002 |
| Current status | Discontinued |
Serializer.net was a
Concept
Just prior to Serializer's launch in 2002, webcomics publisher Joey Manley described the site to
Some of Serializer's comics used award-winning infinite canvas techniques, using the potentially limitless space available on the web to create comics that would be impossible to fit on standard print comics pages.[5] In 2004, Hart noted that Serializer.net excited him specifically as an online venture, and that he was not interested in whether any of the works on it would wind up in print.[6]
History
Joey Manley and Tom Hart launched Serializer.net on October 1, 2002. It was the first expansion of the Modern Tales family of webcomic subscription services. In 2003, The Detroit News reported Serializer.net was publishing work by 25 independent cartoonists.[7] In 2004, several Serializer artists' comics were included in the "Modern Tales’ 2003 Yearbook, Tallscreen Edition,” a 130-page full-color printed book of comics originally from the Modern Tales family of websites.[8]
Serializer.net went down due to a server crash in 2006, but relaunched later that year with a new roster of around twenty artists and with Eric Millikin, one of the website's original artists, as editor.[9][10] Activity on Serializer mostly died down in 2007, as Manley was merging the Modern Tales family of websites into a new comics-oriented social media and publishing platform called ComicSpace.[11][12] The collective Modern Tales family closed down in April 2013, and Manley died of pneumonia later that year.[13]
Webcomics
Serializer.net launched with a webcomic collaboration between Hart and
- Matt Bors' Idiot Box[9]
- Joey Comeau and Emily Horne's A Softer World[14]
- Matt Feazell's Cynicalman, America's Laid-Off Superhero[7]
- Renée French's Micrographica[9]
- Eric Millikin's Fetus-X[9]
- Ryan North's Dinosaur Comics[14]
- Jen Sorensen's Slowpoke[9]
- Spike Trotman's Templar, Arizona[14]
- Drew Weing's Pup[5]
Reception
References
- ^ Wired.com.
- ^ MacDonald, Heidi (2013-11-08). "RIP Joey Manley". The Beat.
- ^ Melrose, Kevin (2013-11-08). "Modern Tales founder Joey Manley passes away". Comic Book Resources.
- ^ Xerexes, Xaviar (2003-08-26). "Buy Season 1 of Trunktown Through BitPass". Comix Talk.
- ^ ISSN 0362-4331.
- Comics Reporter.
- ^ a b Jiompkowski, Michelle O. (2003-03-05). "Cartoonist creates dizzy adventures for the young". The Detroit News.
Strips can be seen on www.serializer.net, a subscription service that showcases work by 25 independent cartoonists. He posts a color strip weekly, and the latest one can be seen for free at the Web site.
- ^ Manley, Joey (2004-03-06). "Modern Tales Releases First Annual in Full Color". Comix Talk.
- ^ Comics Beat.
- ^ Xerexes, Xaviar (2006-12-16). "The Comixpedia End of 2006 Roundtable". Comix Talk.
- Garrity, Shaenon (2011-05-05). "Diving In". The Comics Journal.
- ^ Alverson, Brigid (2009-06-28). "Unbound: Rethinking Girlamatic". Comic Book Resources.
- ^ Melrose, Kevin (2013-11-08). "Modern Tales founder Joey Manley passes away". Comic Book Resources.
- ^ The Beat. 2006-10-17.
- ^ O'Brien, Danny (2006-02-26). "The tooniverse explodes". The Sunday Times. p. 27[S].
- ^ Sharwood, Simon (2003-08-30). "The rebirth of comics: Comics online". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 5.
- ^ MacDonald, Heidi (2005-12-16). "Webcomics: Page Clickers to Page Turners". Publishers Weekly.
External links
- Official website, archived using the Wayback Machine