I was going to say something sooner about he untimely Death of Webcomics Nation (WCN) site founder, publisher, president, webmaster, and webcomics Power Player Joey Manly, but at the time, I thought to myself "But I don't really KNOW Joey Manly other than through his website, plus is it really my place to speak out on the subject? We did have our rocky moments afterall."
But now I'll say a few words about Joey.
Joey Manly was great at comics! I admired his publishing and internet web master know how, and published End Times through Webcomics Nation initially (you can find) End Times at its now permanent home, post-WCN, Comic Fury, a site that I have a much more INSTANT and NOTICEABLE, as well as less unpredictable audience over at.
When I started publishing comics online in 2007, the same time I was writing reviews for Anime TV with Bang Zoom! Entertainment for titles like Fate Stay/Night with the so-called "Bosch crew", I was popular, yet very insecure. I honestly had no clue what I was doing. I just knew this was headed some where potentially big, if things worked out all right in time. Well...Yes and No.
Yes yes. Please don't tweet me. It's a lot of stress and adjustment for me and my small audience of diehard fans, apostles, and devotees, but it is by NO MEANS THE END (so to speak). It's not End Times for End Times. Just a bumpy patch. But it is timely and aptly titled, oddly enough. It's NEVER The End in the World of End Times. And It NEVER WILL BE. People just like to SAY it is. But fuck them. What do they know. They haven't been right about things SO FAR . Everyone when I first started off said my career was going to simply die off and rot in obscurity because of how much of a "perverted friendless girlfriendless loser I was. Totally NOT sexy". All the things you hear in the beginning.
please exuse me, it's 2 months later almost from my traumatic entry, and i'm still a bit shellshocked. Doing relatively okay, though.
We had a good run, Joey and WCN! But I'm setting sail again.
Webcomics nation was just as much of a webcomics brand as End Times, Mono, and J.M. were at one point. And easily just as famous and powerful. Dunno about now, though. Tough to say. I am "Ahmed" after all. I don't know why people call me J.M.....I need to buy a new scanner. If only I weren't poor and had no money or resources to do so. hmmmmm.
G+ aside, it's official. I currently publish End Times and various Mono Projects at ComicFury. But I'll make more announcements and social media press releases about those things in the future. I left Webcomics Nation and am no longer associated with it in a branding sense, even though it's impossible to delete accounts from there for publishers who don't badger them to do so or threaten legal action if they don't help you.. But ce la vi. What's done is done. I've moved on yet again. Surprise surpise. I always do.
I like it there so far. I like the comics equally. I like the fans and their kind treatment of me for the most part. I like the responsiveness. I like how I have a small but large audience and better more informative analytics there. EVEN WITH the negative side of that whole Thing with a capital "T" of the eerily racist-istic Ahmed-eque famous-infamous arrest at the hands of my adoptive father, Cary Alberts sicking his police bloodhounds on me without telling or informing me he was doing so beforehand or warning me to not misbehave in any way, back in Casselberry, Florida, which surprisingly was never publicized in reality (if only things were as simple as they were on TV shows! ya know?, other than by me being likened to Ahmed through news, Twitter, and media insinuations since it was similar situation of racism and injustice, in August of 2015, right around the time the Pope named dropped Thomas Merton my famous relative, this year narrowly missed me and threw a monkey wrench into my publishing career, plans, goals, and schedule and could have ended in COMPLETE and not just "partial" Disastrophy numerous times.
But yeah. Joey Manley. Good Guy. Good Legacy. Untimely Death. Hopefully more people will become aware that WCN has sort of retired or at the very least become incapacitated as a website because Joey is no longer alive to run it. I'm still alive though, and I'm still publishing and kicking, so I looked for other options for my webcomics career than a website run by a corpse in a computer chair (far as I know. No one told us any different. You see what I'm getting at here??)
hopefully my newer-ish youtube audience, my Amazon and Google audience and my webcomics, manga, and anime-swim audience will be able to make peace, play nice and get along for the most part.
hopefully my newer-ish youtube audience, my Amazon and Google audience and my webcomics, manga, and anime-swim audience will be able to make peace, play nice and get along for the most part.
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