Editing Serializer.net (section)

==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.<ref name=":0">{{cite news|title=Cartoonist creates dizzy adventures for the young|last1=Jiompkowski|first1=Michelle O.|date=2003-03-05|work=[[The Detroit News]]|quote=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.}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://comixtalk.com/modern_tales_releases_first_annual_full_color/|title=Modern Tales Releases First Annual in Full Color|website=Comix Talk|language=en-US|date=2004-03-06|last=Manley|first=Joey|author-link=Joey Manley}}</ref>

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.<ref name=":1">{{cite web|url=http://www.comicsbeat.com/serializernet-returns/|work=[[Comics Beat]]|title=Serializer.net returns|last=MacDonald|first=Heidi|author-link=Heidi MacDonald|date=2006-10-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://comixtalk.com/comixpedia_end_2006_roundtable/|title=The Comixpedia End of 2006 Roundtable|website=Comix Talk|last=Xerexes|first=Xaviar|language=en-US|date=2006-12-16}}</ref> 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]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tcj.com/nobody-knows-youre-a-dog-1/|work=[[The Comics Journal]]|title=Diving In|last=Garrity|first=Shaenon|author-link=Shaenon Garrity|date=2011-05-05}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbr.com/unbound-rethinking-girlamatic/|title=Unbound: Rethinking Girlamatic|last=Alverson|first=Brigid|date=2009-06-28|website=[[Comic Book Resources]]}}</ref> The collective Modern Tales family closed down in April 2013, and Manley died of [[pneumonia]] later that year.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbr.com/modern-tales-founder-joey-manley-passes-away/|work=[[Comic Book Resources]]|title=Modern Tales founder Joey Manley passes away|last=Melrose|first=Kevin|date=2013-11-08}}</ref>