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Serializer
Serializer.net was a webcomic subscription service and artist collective published by Joey Manley and edited by Tom Hart and Eric Millikin that existed from 2002 to 2013. Designed to showcase artistic alternative webcomics using the unique nature of the medium, the works on Serializer.net were described by critics as "high art" and "avant-garde". The project became mostly inactive in 2007 and closed alongside Manley's other websites in 2013. Concept Just prior to Serializer's launch in 2002, webcomics publisher Joey Manley described the site to ''Wired'' as a showcase for alternative webcomics "designed to provoke thought, to challenge assumptions and exercise the aesthetic sense." Manley stated that he wanted the artists on Serializer to "do everything and anything that the best novelists, the best filmmakers, the best poets and painters are able to do and, because of the unique nature of the form, to do some things that those artists, working in those other forms, can't do. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Millikin
Eric Millikin is an American artist and activist based in Detroit, Michigan. He is known for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence art, augmented and virtual reality art, conceptual art, Internet art, performance art, poetry, post-Internet art, video art, and webcomics.(April 15, 2012). "Eric Millikin". '' Parade Magazine'' His work is often controversial, with political, romantic, occult, horror and black comedy themes. Awards for Millikin's artwork include the Pulitzer Prize. Together, Millikin and Casey Sorrow created and popularized the international animal rights holiday World Monkey Day. Early life and education Millikin is a descendent of Mary Eastey, who was executed for witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials. He began drawing horror art by age one-and-a-half, and by second grade, he was making teachers profane birthday cards showing his school burning down.Breithaupt, Christy (July 26, 2006).Dark visions: MSU grad's 'Fetus-X' comic earns national r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joey Manley
Joey Manley (July 1965 – November 7, 2013) was an American LGBT fiction author, web designer, and webcomics publisher. Manley wrote the successful LGBT novel ''The Death of Donna-May Dean'' in 1992. He moved to San Francisco in 2000 in order to work in web design. Manley was the founder and publisher of the Modern Tales family of webcomics websites, which included Modern Tales, Serializer, Girlamatic, Webcomics Nation, and others. Manley is considered one of the "founding pioneers" of the webcomic movement for creating a then-revolutionary subscription model. Manley was well-regarded within the webcomic community. He had cultivated hundreds of relationships within webcomic circles and successfully brought webcomic creators together following the dot-com bubble. Manley returned to creative writing again in the early 2010s, serializing his novel ''Snake-Boy Loves Sky Prince: a Gay Superhero Teen Romance'' online. Manley died of pneumonia in November 2013 at the age of 48. Early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Salon (comics)
''The Salon'' is a graphic novel written and illustrated by Nick Bertozzi. Originally published in installments on the website Serializer.net in 2002, it was eventually published in its entirety by St. Martin's Press in April 2007. Plot The story is set in 1907 in Paris, surrounding the birth of the Cubism art movement. Someone is murdering various painters, and a group forms to solve the mystery. Fictionalized characters include Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Gertrude Stein, and Erik Satie. Development After ''The Salon'' was published by St. Martin's Press, Bertozzi noted that the comic had changed substantially since it was originally published on Serializer.net, with plot points tightened, more than 20 pages cut and about 40 pages added. Reception ''The Salon'' has been praised for its "rich personalities" and "brilliant premise". Publishers Weekly said the novel was executed "with wit and flair. ''The Salon'' was named on the Publishers Weekly list of best comics of 2007. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modern Tales
Modern Tales was a webcomics subscription service active from 2002 to 2012. Joey Manley was the website's publisher and original editor. The site featured a roster of approximately 30 professional webcomic artists. Shaenon Garrity, one of the site's original artists, took over as the publication's editor in 2006. Other Modern Tales artists included Gene Luen Yang, James Kochalka, Dorothy Gambrell, Harvey Pekar and Will Eisner. In the first four years of Modern Tales' run, its most recent webcomic pages and strips were free, and the site's archives were available by subscription. The website's archives eventually became free to read as well, as online advertisement rates improved. Modern Tales did solid business and Manley spun off a number of similar subscription services, including Serializer.net, Girlamatic, and Kochalka's ''American Elf'', which together became known as the "Modern Tales family". Concept Working in San Francisco for Streaming Media in the early 2000s, Joey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comics Reporter
Thomas Martin Spurgeon (December 16, 1968 – November 13, 2019) was an American writer, historian, critic, and editor in the field of comics, notable for his five-year run as editor of ''The Comics Journal'' and his blog ''The Comics Reporter''. Early life Spurgeon was born December 16, 1968, in Muncie, Indiana. He was one of three sons of Sandra "Sunny" McFarren and Wiley W. Spurgeon, Jr. His mother was a senior manager in the health care industry, and his father was the executive editor of the sister newspapers ''The Muncie Star'' and ''The Muncie Evening Press'', a role that included curating the newspapers' comics pages. Spurgeon was his class president in high school, and attended college at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, where he was a lineman on the football team, and graduated with a BA in History and Politics in 1991. He spent the next two years in Evanston, Illinois, studying at the Garrett–Evangelical Theological Seminary before leaving ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joey Comeau
Joey Comeau (born September 26, 1980) is a Canadian writer. He is best known for writing the text of the webcomic '' A Softer World'', and for his novels ''Lockpick Pornography'' and ''Overqualified''. Career In 2003, Comeau co-created the webcomic '' A Softer World'' with Emily Horne. His first novel, ''Lockpick Pornography'', was serialized on the ''A Softer World'' site prior to publication in book form by Loose Teeth Press. Excerpts from his novel ''Overqualified'' were included in the 2010 ''Best American Nonrequired Reading''. The first 20 chapters of his novel ''One Bloody Thing After Another'' were serialized on the National Post's book blog and the book was nominated for the 2010 Shirley Jackson Award. ''One Bloody Thing After Another'' was also nominated for the 2011 ReLit Awards. ''The Globe and Mail'' review of ''One Bloody Thing After Another'' was generally critical, concluding that the novel did not succeed as either horror or comedy, while the reviewer in the ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Bors
Matt Bors (born 1983) is a nationally syndicated American editorial cartoonist and editor of online comics publication The Nib. Formerly the comics journalism editor for Cartoon Movement, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2012 and 2020, and became the first alt-weekly cartoonist to win the Herblock Prize for Excellence in Cartooning. Career Originally from Canton, Ohio, Bors attended the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, where he first began drawing editorial cartoons for the student newspaper. At 23, his work became syndicated by Universal Features, making him the youngest syndicated cartoonist in the country at that time. His work has since appeared in the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''The Nation'', ''The Village Voice'', ''The Daily Beast'', and on Daily Kos. In 2012, US Congressman John Larson used one of Bors's cartoons during a house floor on the Affordable Care Act. His first graphic novel, ''War Is Boring'', a collaboration with journalist David Axe, was published in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Kirk
Derek Kirk Kim is a Korean-American writer, director, and artist. He is the recipient of the Eisner (2004), the Harvey (2004), and the Ignatz Award (2003) for his debut graphic novel ''Same Difference and Other Stories.'' (The contents of which were originally serialized on his website, formerly known as ''Lowbright'', and ''Small Stories''). This collection of short stories was first published with the help of a 2002 Xeric Award. In television, he is best known for his work as a director on the Disney animated television series ''Amphibia''. He was also the lead character designer of ''Adventure Time'' (Cartoon Network) and a story artist for ''Green Eggs and Ham'' (Netflix). He is also the writer of ''TUNE'' and the writer and director of the spin-off webseries, ''Mythomania''. Kim has also worked on numerous animated shorts, including "Sympathy for Slenderman," a Webby Award nominee in 2014. Early life Kim was born in Gumi, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea. He came to the Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Bertozzi
Nick Bertozzi (born May 26, 1970) is an American comic book writer and artist, as well as a commercial illustrator and teacher of cartooning. His series ''Rubber Necker'' from Alternative Comics won the 2003 Harvey Awards for best new talent and best new series. His project, '' The Salon'' (published by St. Martin's Press), examines the creation of cubism in 1907 Paris in the context of a fictional murder mystery. Early life Bertozzi grew up on the East Side of Providence, Rhode Island, and in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, and got his BA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has lived in Madrid, Philadelphia, and New York City. Career Bertozzi also illustrated ''Houdini: The Handcuff King'' (published by Hyperion), which was written by Jason Lutes. Bertozzi also publishes two webcomics, ''Persimmon Cup'' and ''Pecan Sandy'', as part of the ACT-I-VATE comics blog. His illustration clients include Nickelodeon Magazine, ''Spin'', ''The New York Times'', ''New York Press'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pneumonia
Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as alveoli. Symptoms typically include some combination of productive or dry cough, chest pain, fever, and difficulty breathing. The severity of the condition is variable. Pneumonia is usually caused by infection with viruses or bacteria, and less commonly by other microorganisms. Identifying the responsible pathogen can be difficult. Diagnosis is often based on symptoms and physical examination. Chest X-rays, blood tests, and culture of the sputum may help confirm the diagnosis. The disease may be classified by where it was acquired, such as community- or hospital-acquired or healthcare-associated pneumonia. Risk factors for pneumonia include cystic fibrosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), sickle cell disease, asthma, diabetes, heart failure, a history of smoking, a poor ability to cough (such as following a stroke), and a weak immune system. Vaccines to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Comics Journal
''The Comics Journal'', often abbreviated ''TCJ'', is an American magazine of news and criticism pertaining to comic books, comic strips and graphic novels. Known for its lengthy interviews with comic creators, pointed editorials and scathing reviews of the products of the mainstream comics industry, the magazine promotes the view that comics are a fine art, meriting broader cultural respect, and thus should be evaluated with higher critical standards. History In 1976, Gary Groth and Michael Catron acquired ''The Nostalgia Journal'', a small competitor of the newspaper adzine '' The Buyer's Guide for Comics Fandom''. At the time, Groth and Catron were already publishing ''Sounds Fine'', a similarly formatted adzine for record collectors that they had started after producing Rock 'N Roll Expo '75, held during the July 4 weekend in 1975 in Washington, D.C. The publication was relaunched as ''The New Nostalgia Journal'' with issue No. 27 (July 1976), and with issue No. 32 (Janua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
