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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''〔O'Brien, Danny (February 26, 2006). "The tooniverse explodes". ''Sunday Times (London)'', p. 27.〕 and James Kochalka, the award-winning creator of ''Fancy Froglin''.〔Frauenfelder, Mark (December 1, 2002). "Living online". ''Playboy'', No. 12, Vol. 49; Pg. 41.〕 Gene Yang's National Book Award finalist ''American Born Chinese'' was originally published as a webcomic on Modern Tales.〔Contino, Jennifer M. (June 3, 2003). "(Life, Religion, & Making Comics: Gene Yang's American Born Chinese )". ''The Pulse''. Retrieved on 2007-02-17.〕 Modern Tales has also published several editions of Harvey Pekar's ''American Splendor'' comics on the web,〔Dodson, Sean (January 8, 2004). "Online : Web Watch". ''The Guardian (London)'', p. 20.〕 as well as Shaenon Garrity's webcomic ''Narbonic''.〔Boxer, Sarah (August 17, 2005). "Comics Escape a Paper Box, and Electronic Questions Pop Out". ''The New York Times'', p. 1E.〕 Several spin-off websites have emerged in its wake, including serializer, girlamatic and Graphic Smash, each featuring a different editorial focus. ''Publishers Weekly'' calls the Modern Tales family of sites the best-known pay comics sites.〔MacDonald, Heidi (December 19, 2005). "Web Comics: Page Clickers to Page Turners; It's like manga five or six years ago: a cult audience that is increasing steadily". ''Publishers Weekly'', p. 24.〕 In June 2005, Modern Tales had about 2,000 members each paying $3 a month.;〔Walker, Leslie (June 16, 2005). "Comics Looking to Spread A Little Laughter on the Web". ''The Washington Post'', p. D1.〕 the majority of content on Modern Tales has since become free.〔Manley, Joey (January 2, 2006). "(Modern Tales Free )". ''Talk About Comics''. Retrieved on 2008-11-12.〕 Joey Manley originally served as both the site's editor and publisher. Eric Burns of the Websnark blog became the editor of Modern Tales' newly announced free content in December 2005. Burns was replaced by Shaenon Garrity in August 2006.〔Manley, Joey (August 1, 2006). "(Meet the new editor of Modern Tales )". ''Talk About Comics''. Retrieved on 2007-07-01.〕 "We're not Disney, obviously, but we have proven that people will pay for Web comics," Joey Manley said in 2003. "I want (cartoonists ) to eventually be able to make their living from Web comics."〔Ho, Patricia Jiayi (July 8, 2003). "Online comic artists don't have to play panel games". ''Alameda Times-Star (Alameda, CA)〕 == Closure == On or around April 5, 2013, the Modern Tales site and all hosted sites were changed to a site-closure page. This page has a photograph of a group of people, apparently the Modern Tales staff, with a message: "Thank you to all the readers, creators and miscellaneous others who were a part of this grand experiment. We did great things, and we did stupid things, and we will do both kinds of things again and again!"〔"(Modern Tales 2002-2012 )"〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Modern Tales」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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