I don’t really read PvP, but it just seems silly to doubt that it’s making money. I live in Ireland and there are PvP print comics on the shelf in my local comic shop, so the print distribution is at the very least transatlantic in scope. The website a high-traffic site that runs ads and there’s plenty of merch.

Someone compared comics syndication to the music industry earlier, I’d just like to point out Jonathan Coulton, who seems to be doing alright in the music industry following something very like a webcomics business model. I’ve downloaded a bunch of music for free off his site, but I paid to see him when he played in Dublin last year and I bought a couple of t-shirts at the gig.

But I like Ben’s a lot, too. If you’re going to do “talking heads” with a lot of detail, that’s the way to do it. It’s very beautiful just to look at and it makes me stay to read the dialog.

Why was I posting? Oh, yeah. I agree with August! I don’t understand any happiness that Ted lost his job. He was doing exactly what every cartoonist says they want syndicates to do when they look for new talent.

I’m never going to be rich doing this, but, hey, I can buy a car, buy a home – heck, I can even buy a Macintosh computer and contribute a little bit to The Daily Cartoonist and Ted Rall might not call me a liar, who knows? LOL

Ah, listen to me whine… Really, I’ve got no complaints. Drawing funny pictures for a living, there’s nothing better than that for me.

Which probably explains why you’re out of a job.

Skipping the petty callousness of this comment, Scott, where is the logic in it? Ted didn’t lose any job as a cartoonist, his position at United Media was eliminated where his job was, primarily, to try and get deals for the same young and talented artists you continue to believe he doesn’t support. Ted’s “ilk” in one of his books included R. Stevens, Nick Gurewich, and Stephen Cloud. Yeah, he’s really railing about how they suck and can’t compete with him the way he tried to get them nationally published and competing with other print cartoonists and all that.

I just don’t get it. Of all the stupid petty BS you two throw back and forth here, why you seem to constantly gloat about the loss of a position at a major company devoted to making newer artists more popular and successful- regardless of who held it- is beyond me.

Can’t argue with that.

What, do you think people care?