ComicsOnline.com is thrilled to announce it will be celebrating it’s 10 year anniversary on September 25th, 2010! In honor of this milestone we are proud to present to you a brief history of ComicsOnline.com:
 

1998- The original domain was bought by George Thrush for his comic store, Comic City. The original site was just html frames generated by Microsoft Home Page. The original site was just intended to update Comic City’s customers of upcoming releases.
 

2000- September 25, 2000, the new dynamic ComicsOnline.com web site went live. This new site, created by Kevin Gaussoin used PHPNuke, an early Content Management System (CMS) similar to Slash. This new site was dedicated to upcoming releases in the Comic and Media industry.

2002-2004- Most of our site news focused on Comics and HeroClix.

2006- Kevin Gaussoin purchased the site and started to convert it more fully into a pop culture media site. Terrence St John begins partnering with public relations reps and ComicsOnline begins reviewing DVDs.

 

2007- Just before Comic-Con San Diego, Matt Sernaker (Director of Media Relations) joined Kevin at ComicsOnline to develop partnerships with various TV and Movie studios on interviews and continued ramping up reviews of upcoming DVD and movie releases.

2008- ComicsOnline staff and friends start the ComicsOnline Podcast with
Season Zero. Subsequent podcast seasons are numbered after the website year.

2009- ComicsOnline’s PHPNuke site went down when our hosting provider upgraded its database software. Less than a week later, we debuted our current Drupal-based site.

2010- We currently have over 30 staff members working at ComicsOnline to provide you with reviews and interviews on everyting geek pop culture.

Over the years, we’ve interviewed a large variety of geek pop culture icons including:
 

Comics
-Robert Kirkman
-Stan Lee
-Judd Winick

-John Romita, Jr
-Kevin Eastman
-Gail Simone
 

-Josh Keaton (Spectacular Spider-Man)
-Vic Cook (Spectacular Spider-Man)
-Greg Weisman (Spectacular Spider-Man / Gargoyles)

-Bruce Timm (DC Animated)
-Kevin Conroy (Batman)
-Andrea Romano (DC Animated)
-Billy West (Futurama)
-John DiMaggio (Futurama)
 

-Frank Darabont (Terminator)
-Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead/Army of Darkness)
-Thomas Jane (Punisher)
-Jake Gyllenhaal (Prince of Persia)
-Jon Turteltaub (Prince of Persia / National Treasure)

-Ming-Na (Mulan / Stargate Universe)

-Chris Mintz-Plasse (Kick-Ass)
-Chloe Moretz (Kick-Ass)

TV
-Joss Whedon (Buffy / Firefly / Dollhouse)
-Eliza Dushku (Buffy / Dollhouse)
-Summer Glau (Firefly / Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles)

-Richard Dean Anderson (Stargate SG-1)
-Amanda Tapping (Stargate SG-1)
-Christoper Judge (Stargate SG-1)

-John Barrowman (Doctor Who / Torchwood)

-Edward James Olmos (Battlestar Galactica)
-Mitch Hurwitz (Arrested Development)
-Henry Winkler (Arrested Development / Happy Days)
-Will Arnett (Arrested Development)
-Ben Browder (Farscape)
-Zac Levi (Chuck)
-Adam Baldwin (Chuck)
-Jackie Earle Haley (Human Target / Watchmen)

-James Marsters (Buffy / Smallville / Caprica)
 

Music
-Jonathan Coulton
-Stephen Lynch

-Claudio Sanchez (Coheed and Cambria)

While the ComicsOnline Podcast has only been on iTunes since 2008, we’re celebrating our site anniversary with a live internet stream of our recording ComicsOnline Podcast Season 11, Episode 1 at 3PM Pacific on Saturday, September 25. The link to the stream will be up at http://www.comicsonline.com and we invite you all to join us.
 

Thank you for all of you support over the last 10 years and we are looking forward to bringing you the best possible reviews and interviews on everything geek pop culture for yet another decade!