Webcomics Nation
Encyclopedia
Webcomics Nation is a webcomic
hosting
and automation service launched on July 29, 2005 by Joey Manley
, publisher of the subscription webcomic site Modern Tales
. It is a service designed for online cartoonists. Webcomics Nation is not a spinoff of Modern Tales like Graphic Smash, serializer
, and girlamatic
are. Webcomics Nation was conceived as an ad-supported site offering cartoonists unlimited web space for $7 a month, it has since begun offering free hosting.
Its goal is to do for Web comics what Blogger
did for blogs and Flickr
did for photo sharing. It is the most profitable of Manley's sites, which gross over six figures.
Notable comics on Webcomics Nation have included Shaenon K. Garrity's Narbonic
, Eric Millikin's Eric Monster Millikin
and Batton Lash's Supernatural Law
.
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....
hosting
Web hosting service
A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their own website accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own or lease for use by their clients as well as providing Internet...
and automation service launched on July 29, 2005 by Joey Manley
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...
, publisher of the subscription webcomic 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...
. It is a service designed for online cartoonists. Webcomics Nation is not a spinoff of Modern Tales like Graphic Smash, serializer
Serializer
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...
, and girlamatic
Girlamatic
Girlamatic, published by Joey Manley, is a member of the Modern Tales family of subscription-based webcomics anthology sites. Girlamatic publishes comics with a particular appeal for young adult women. The site launched on March 31, 2003 with...
are. Webcomics Nation was conceived as an ad-supported site offering cartoonists unlimited web space for $7 a month, it has since begun offering free hosting.
Its goal is to do for Web comics what Blogger
Blogger (service)
Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows private or multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was created by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at a subdomain of blogspot.com. Up until May 1, 2010 Blogger allowed users to publish...
did for blogs and Flickr
Flickr
Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to...
did for photo sharing. It is the most profitable of Manley's sites, which gross over six figures.
Notable comics on Webcomics Nation have included Shaenon K. Garrity's Narbonic
Narbonic
Narbonic is a webcomic written and drawn by Shaenon K. Garrity. The storylines center on the misadventures of the staff of Narbonic Labs, which is the domain of mad scientist Helen Narbon. The strip started on July 31, 2000 and finished on December 31, 2006. On January 1, 2007, Garrity launched the...
, Eric Millikin's Eric Monster Millikin
Eric Monster Millikin
Eric Millikin, also known as Eric Monster Millikin, is an award-winning American artist and former human anatomy lab embalmer and dissectionist...
and Batton Lash's Supernatural Law
Supernatural Law
Supernatural Law, previously known as Wolff and Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre, is a comic strip, comic book and web comic series written and illustrated by Batton Lash...
.