The cool thing (and difficult thing) about webcomics, is that there is NO ONE to blame for your comic’s demise but YOU. On the flip side your comics success is all you as well.

Another great thing about webcomics is that there is no restrictions on your character’s dialog. It’s not like YES I can finally start swearing in my comic, it’s more like, YES I can finally use REALISTIC sounding dialog. The editorial rules on dialog (and subject matter) for the comic pages in newspapers have not changed with the times and I think it is partly responsible for decline in readership.

Would I love to have a syndication deal? Damn straight I would. But, I would probably try to build a strong web presence for the comic, too.

I’m also not talking about some low income state. Both my parents were (I say “were” because they are now retired) teachers in Orange County California which is not a cheap place to live, own a home are not working because their retirement is good based on what they made. This is what I grew up as a standard of living. So I can’t fathom how 50K grand (plus a bit because they had a masters degreee and that helps out in teaching) is some sort of small amount. It was enough for me have grown up in a home where two parents worked and had enough to pay bills, buy computers and not other extra in life.

I’ll even concede that 50K isn’t what it used to be, but it’s more than enough to live comfortably keep bills paid and enjoy a family life. I know because that’s the kind of income I grew up with.

Right now If I could make 50K it would be a very comfortable living.

My point though was two worlds. The one in a fishbowl where you don’t really see out, and the one where you can ONLY see in. I”m sure there’s tinting from either perspective, but I think it needs to be mentioned that we are talking about two different worlds here as it almost seems that the discussion is talking about one.

If you’re on the outside, you don’t mind making consesions in lower income to just get in and enjoy something more what you do 8-5 PM. There’s also the factor where that 50K is more than what you are making now (and that’s with my BA in one field and AA in another field)

I can’t speak of IN the fish bowl as i myself am on the outside peering in.

Didn’t mean to make this sound as direct as is probably does but, I thought these were posts worthy of note…

And is it right that we only compare online content with print? I know for a fact from working in television that there is a TON of money in it, much of it wasted and horribly distributed for TV content. I was on Viacom’s comprehensive health plan for a year on a show that never even aired. Imagine how many cartoonists could make their life’s work on that kind of money! The money TV networks use to furnish an unaired show’s wrap-up party.

Things are changing and advertisers are reluctant to put their money elsewhere, but they will. The money exists, and it will go where today’s youth are. (Incidentally, MTV is miserably behind in the times, and they know it. Especially since they lost the MySpace bid.) Kids born in the 90s don’t think of the internet as a novelty or a catalyst for change like us old-timers do. (I’m including myself in that, and I’m 23.) The internet is second nature for them.