Serializer
Encyclopedia
serializer.net is a website featuring many free and subscription-based alternative comics created especially for the web. It was launched in October 2002 by Publisher Joey Manley
, Editor Tom Hart
, and approximately 20 professional cartoonists. After being offline due to a server crash in April, 2005, Serializer relaunched in October, 2006 under the editorship of Eric Millikin.
Contributing artists include many well-known award-winning alternative comics artists like James Kochalka
, Sam Henderson
and Howard Cruse
, as well as young artists like Drew Weing
, Chris Onstad and Eric Millikin. Serializer was the first site to spin off from the subscription webcomic
s site Modern Tales
.
The Sunday Times describes it as the "high-art" off-shoot of Modern Tales. The Sydney Morning Herald considers the comics on the site to be the avant-garde of webcomics.
Joey Manley
Joey Manley is best known as the founder and publisher of the webcomics site Modern Tales, as well as numerous other web-specific entertainment properties. These properties include the subscription webcomics sites Serializer, Girlamatic, and Graphic Smash, and the webcomics hosting service...
, Editor Tom Hart
Tom Hart (comics)
Tom Hart is an American comics creator best known for his Hutch Owen series of comics.-Career:Tom Hart began making mini-comics while living in Seattle in the early 1990s...
, and approximately 20 professional cartoonists. After being offline due to a server crash in April, 2005, Serializer relaunched in October, 2006 under the editorship of Eric Millikin.
Contributing artists include many well-known award-winning alternative comics artists like James Kochalka
James Kochalka
James Kochalka is an American comic book artist and writer, and rock musician. His comics are noted for their blending of the real and the surreal...
, Sam Henderson
Sam Henderson
Sam Henderson is an American cartoonist, writer and expert on American comedy history.Henderson attended Boiceville, New York's Onteora High School, graduating in 1987, and the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where he graduated in 1991.Henderson has been self-publishing xeroxed minicomics...
and Howard Cruse
Howard Cruse
Howard Cruse is an American alternative cartoonist known for the exploration of gay themes in his comics.Cruse was raised in Springville, Alabama, the son of a preacher and a homemaker. His earliest published cartoons were in The Baptist Student when he was in high school. His work later appeared...
, as well as young artists like Drew Weing
Drew Weing
Drew Weing is an American comic book and webcomic creator who is perhaps best known for his infinite canvas webcomic Pup on Serializer. In their review of serializer.net, The Comics Journal wrote: "Pup is a real charmer, a beautifully drawn and colored , funny and honest-to-God webcomic, It's far...
, Chris Onstad and Eric Millikin. Serializer was the first site to spin off from the subscription webcomic
Webcomic
Webcomics, online comics, or Internet comics are comics published on a website. While many are published exclusively on the web, others are also published in magazines, newspapers or often in self-published books....
s site Modern Tales
Modern Tales
Modern Tales is a webcomics site launched on March 2, 2002 by Joey Manley, the Modern Tales publisher, and approximately 30 professional cartoonists, such as Dorothy Gambrell, author of the popular webcomic Cat and Girl and James Kochalka, the award-winning creator of Fancy Froglin...
.
The Sunday Times describes it as the "high-art" off-shoot of Modern Tales. The Sydney Morning Herald considers the comics on the site to be the avant-garde of webcomics.
Comics
- Achewood Sunday Edition by Chris Onstad
- The Amazing Cynicalman by Matt FeazellMatt FeazellMatt Feazell is a Hamtramck, Michigan comics artist, primarily working in minicomics. He is best known for his wryly humorous The Amazing Cynicalman series and the simple “stick figure” art style he uses for it...
- Barefootz by Howard CruseHoward CruseHoward Cruse is an American alternative cartoonist known for the exploration of gay themes in his comics.Cruse was raised in Springville, Alabama, the son of a preacher and a homemaker. His earliest published cartoons were in The Baptist Student when he was in high school. His work later appeared...
- Bean by Phil McAndrewPhil McAndrewPhil McAndrew is an illustrator and cartoonist from Syracuse, NY, who is perhaps best known for his self-published comic Are You Man Enough?. He has created illustrations for books, magazines, newspapers, animated television spots, theatre scenery, clothing, posters, album covers, gallery exhibits,...
and Stuv - Cloud Factory by Neil Babra
- Dakin Weekly Online by Glenn DakinGlenn DakinGlenn Dakin is a British cartoonist and author of children's books. He was a contributor to a number of British comics magazines including Escape and Deadline and was part of the British small press comics scene in the 1980s...
- Dwarf Attack by Greg StumpGreg StumpGreg Stump is an American ski and snowboarding filmmaker.He came to international attention first as a skier in films made by Dick Barrymore, particularly his "Vagabond Skier" shot in New Zealand in 1979. In 1979 Greg Stump had also won the North American Freestyle Championships at Edelweiss Valley...
- Fetus-X by Eric Millikin
- Flawed Adventures by Amanda Crichton
- Hails at Sea by Walt Holcombe
- Half Empty by Derek Kirk Kim
- Little Laurie Sprinkles by Lauren WeinsteinLauren Weinstein (comic book artist)Lauren R. Weinstein is an American comic book artist. Her surrealist alternative comics detail a complex world where a pall of mystery, sexual intrigue and violent death hangs over the animal kingdom, outer space and suburban America alike...
- The Magic Whistle by Sam HendersonSam HendersonSam Henderson is an American cartoonist, writer and expert on American comedy history.Henderson attended Boiceville, New York's Onteora High School, graduating in 1987, and the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where he graduated in 1991.Henderson has been self-publishing xeroxed minicomics...
- Mjau Mjau Archives by Jason (comics)
- New Hat by Tom HartTom Hart (comics)Tom Hart is an American comics creator best known for his Hutch Owen series of comics.-Career:Tom Hart began making mini-comics while living in Seattle in the early 1990s...
- Pup by Drew WeingDrew WeingDrew Weing is an American comic book and webcomic creator who is perhaps best known for his infinite canvas webcomic Pup on Serializer. In their review of serializer.net, The Comics Journal wrote: "Pup is a real charmer, a beautifully drawn and colored , funny and honest-to-God webcomic, It's far...
- Smell of Steve by Brian Sendelbach
- Square Fiction by demian5When I Am KingWhen I am King is a wordless infinite canvas webcomic by Swiss artist demian5 about an Egyptian king's travels through a desert. It has an unusual visual style that makes heavy use of oranges and reds, uses arrows to emphasize horizontal movement, and has occasional GIF animation.-Reception:When I...
- The Nile Journals by Daniel Merlin GoodbreyDaniel Merlin GoodbreyDaniel Merlin Goodbrey is an English writer and online pioneer known for his work in webcomics and the British small press.-Biography:Goodbrey became well known as a contributor to Women in Refrigerators....
- True Loves by Jason TurnerJason TurnerJason Turner may refer to:* Jason Turner , Olympic figure skater* Jason Turner , Olympic sport shooter* Jason Turner , fictional television character...
& Manien Bothma - Unlikely by Jeffrey BrownJeffrey BrownJeffrey Brown is a comic book writer and artist born in Grand Rapids, Michigan.-Biography:After growing up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a 25-year-old Jeffrey Brown moved to Chicago in 2000 to pursue an MFA at the School of the Art Institute. By the time he finished his studies, he had abandoned...
- Yeah, It Is! by Leslie Stein
Past comics
- Billy Dogma: The Devil's MuuMuu (2002–2003) by Dean HaspielDean HaspielDean Edmund Haspiel is an American comic book artist. He is known for his collaborations with writer Harvey Pekar on his American Splendor series as well as the graphic novel The Quitter. He has been nominated for numerous Eisner Awards, and won a 2010 Emmy Award for TV design work.-Early...
- Lionel's Lament (2003–2004) by Dean Haspiel and Josh NeufeldJosh NeufeldJosh Neufeld is an alternative cartoonist known for his nonfiction comics on subjects like Hurricane Katrina, international travel, and finance, as well as his collaborations with writers like Harvey Pekar and Brooke Gladstone...
- Red Eye, Black Eye (2002–2005) by K. Thor Jensen