Welcome to TalkAboutComics 3.0
by Joey Manley
The first version of TalkAboutComics was an online talk show I hosted circa 2000-2001. Guests included Scott Kurtz, Scott McCloud, Justine Shaw, and Darren “Gav” Bleuel. Talking to these people eventually inspired me to launch Modern Tales — at which point I became way, way, way too busy to do an online talk show.
The second version of TAC was the one you’re probably most familiar with: a massive forum-hosting portal for webcomics and small press comics creators. This version of TAC is very much with us still — don’t worry, the forums haven’t gone away.
This blog represents the third big step in TAC’s history. I’ll continue to maintain my own personal blog in its usual spot — but I will no longer post Modern Tales-related news and press release info there: that stuff will go here.
Additionally, all 200+ Modern Tales family cartoonists (that is, people with work on Modern Tales, or Modern Tales Longplay, serializer.net, GirlAMatic and Graphic Smash have been invited to post here, too. I hope they take me up on this invitation.
We’ll see!
January 30th, 2005 at 5:25 am
Honour and prosperity to you, General Joey, for your idealistic and hard work with conquering virtual places for the Ninth Art.
May you win your glorious battles!
January 30th, 2005 at 1:33 pm
Beanworld is back! Or a strip in the tone of the wonderful and gone away books by Larry Marder. Thank you, Phill! And if you haven’t seen Beanworld, you should.
All Hail Joey for continuing to forge forward despite spam, hackers and crashes. He is our Admiral of the Ocean Web.
January 30th, 2005 at 4:28 pm
A good idea to open this blog about webcomics, it’ll be easier for me to stay aware of english-webcomics-life
. I let a little text for you on my own weblog, but trackbacks doesn’t seem to work. Perhaps are they moderated ?
January 30th, 2005 at 4:30 pm
I haven’t seen Beanworld, but have had one or two people mention it to me recently. I will be sure to check it out!
January 31st, 2005 at 6:02 pm
3.0 is an excellent step forward! I love having the stream of topics all on one page with the option to filter/archive by topic with links on the right. If the cartoonists keep the topics interesting and don’t make it just a long plug-a-thon, it can add a whole new level of appeal to the site. My one suggestion would be to have a full webcomic (or webcomic link if there are size issues) at the top of the page under the TAC title graphic, randomly loading any of the MT strips that updated that day. That way it will feel more like a webcomics site and visitors get exposed to a recent MT comic every time they check out the blog.
January 31st, 2005 at 10:52 pm
This is good indeed to know this tool is back. I hope I will be able to add some stuff that must be of interest.
Good Luck
Marko Ajdaric
Neorama dos Quadrinhos, Brazil