The Bother of Webcomics

I do this other blog called Digital Strips. It has long since migrated to it's own server, domain, and different blogger from it's own momentum. This momentum however reached a crescendo about 6 months ago when I accepted a project in Melbourne Australia. Wow, did that blog lose a lot. It was amazing at how many readers and even the staff were lost by my inability to keep the site running as smoothly as before.

At this point I've lost 12,000 of my 40,000 readers and winning them back has not been easy, especially sense I continue to work in the land down under and not have my two voice talents participating anymore. Despite it all the site seems to be a point where it could possible survive anything. Traffic is constant and we continue to get email from major comic institutes.

Ignoring that I comparing Digital Strips to the New Yorker I feel like I'm going through the same situation. There is almost 0 income from the site thanks to a very low click through common among news sites almost everything is paid out of my own pocket. How do you justify keeping something afloat for so long that does not appear to be able to survive without you? Aren't you suppose to be able to let your children go into the wide world and watch them flower?

In the end the whole experience has been an eye opener in the whole "do what you love as a hobby" idea. I've always followed it but sometimes you just have make a decision that could not only affect thousands of people in one small way but also continue to blow a hole in your pocket. I guess for now I'm going to wait until I get back home and see if I can't get everything back on track once my schedule makes since.
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