Comic Services


Since 2001, when co-founders Joey Manley and Josh Roberts launched their first websites, the E-Line team has been dedicated to growing the audience for the webcomics movement and expanding business and artistic opportunities for artists in the field. Our suite of tools and services includes:


In addition to wholesale automation for webcomics hosting at WebcomicsNation.com, we also host a small handful of high-quality individual webcomics by professional creators on private domains, like James Kochalka’s AmericanElf.com and Ursula Vernon’s DiggerComic.com.


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Our curated online anthologies tie some of the very best webcomics together around a particular theme. American Born Chinese by Gene Yang, the first graphic novel to have ever been nominated for a National Book Award, was originally published online at ModernTales.com, one of our curated anthologies.



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ComicSpace empowers comic creators to establish a merchandising program, allowing them to market T-shirts, books and other items and apparel. ComicSpace supports creators in all aspects of merchandise production and sales, from design guidance, warehousing, and fulfillment through marketing and promotion. Custom-tailored merchandise services support different types of creators, including new comic creators with a small audience, existing creators building their audience and established creators with a substantial fan base.


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Our community sites provide a powerful set of social networking, content discovery, sharing, and update tracking, and content management solution optimized for the specialized needs of webcomic artists and fans. Many of the most popular webcomics, and most popular webcomics-related blogs, live on our community sites.




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The ComicSpace media network reaches over 1.2 milion unique users and serves over 50 million banner impressions monthly. The network has successfully delivered product launch campaigns for large national advertisers and agencies including features beyond standard IAB units. Our broad reach across many genres of comics enables fine targeting of campaigns, and includes channels such as men 18-34, young adults, women, and more. The medium of comics presents unique opportunities for custom campaigns, including product placement within a strip and custom comics written for an advertising campaign.


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