Girlamatic: Подписка на вебкомиксы для девушек и художниц

Webcomic subscription service

Girlamatic (sometimes stylized as GirlAMatic or Girl A Matic) was a webcomic subscription service launched by Joey Manley and Lea Hernandez in March 2003. It was the third online magazine Manley established as part of his Modern Tales family of websites. Girlamatic was created as a place where both female artists and readers could feel comfortable and featured a diverse mix of genres. When the site launched, the most recent webcomic pages and strips were free, and the website's archives were available by subscription. The editorial role was held by Hernandez from 2003 until 2006, when it was taken over by Arcana Jayne creator Lisa Jonté, one of the site's original artists. In 2009, Girlamatic was relaunched as a free digital magazine, this time edited by Spades creator Diana McQueen. The archives of the webcomics that ran on Girlamatic remained freely available until the website was discontinued in 2013.

[[File:Charlie Spike Trotman Templar AZ 2008 06 08 detail2. png|thumb|right|Spike Trotman published her first major webcomics on Girlamatic. The website allowed readers and creators to avoid the male dominated direct market of superhero comic books. Talking with Publishers Weekly in 2004, Hernandez said "an anthology of girl friendly comics would sink like a stone in the direct market." Hernandez said she had gathered artists of "the new mainstream" and she hoped they would find a wider audience for their work through Girlamatic. Webcartoonist Shaenon K. Garrity noted that she liked the website's name for its "juxtaposition of squishy girliness with hard retro tech," saying that the website has always blended a large variety of themes, including "cuteness and horror, comedy and melodrama, gruesome darkness and giggly light, femininity and masculinity." Lisa Jonté stated that Girlamatic's inclusion criteria were essentially "whatever appeals to the editor we want engaging stories with well developed characters." Jonté did note that she mainly wanted to stay away from female sex appeal and "frilly pink melodrama." This subscription model was revolutionary at the time, and was one of the first profitable subscription models for webcomics.