Comics have traditionally been a peripheral aspect to the daily newspaper. If daily newspapers shift their revenue models completely and try to find ways to monetize their content through online formats, my question would be how webcomics might be able to follow along.

Perhaps another revenue model for webcomics would be where online media pay for webcomics to ‘co-exist’ with the news site (much like how comics fit into the funny section for print media)? As the news media figures out how to shift to a digital format I think it will be important for webcomics to find a way to continue to continue the traditional, mutually beneficial relationship between the two.

I think a lot of people torrent their comics because it’s free, even if they realize the computer screen isn’t made for reading comics that were originally designed for print. And most methods used to bridge this gap from print-to-screen, like Marvel’s DCU, don’t work really well; they’re awkward and don’t give you a steady and flowing reading experience. In essence, reading comics on computers, PSPs, Iphones, etc., that were originally intended for print is frustrating and can’t replicate the feeling of reading a real comic.

But this is okay if you’re just using the comics as an advertisement for the ultimate collected PRINT edition, which you note. But as an individual download, that you pay for like you do music or movies (which, by the way, are easily transferrable to any player; digital comics are not), that’s a hard sell.