The Black Tower is an ad-supported interactive webcomic series. It was created by Canadian screenwriter Kelly J. Compeau, co-authored by multi-award winning comics author, Jeff Mariotte, and illustrated by artist Donald Jackson
It was launched on August 27, 2008 and claims to be the first interactive webcomic with clickable links to product placement advertisers, music videos, YouTube / MyspaceTV shorts (live-action extensions of the comic book).