I’ve held off for as long as I could, but I am declaring advertising as a means of supporting this website to be beyond saving. I can no longer rely on it, so I have to adjust the way I do things in order to hopefully keep being able to do it for another decade or two.
Starting in December, the update schedule on this website will drop to twice a week (Monday and Friday). Patrons at the $3 and above tiers on our Patreon will continue to get three pages a week (Monday. Wednesday, Friday).
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If you’ve enjoyed reading the 4000+ comics I’ve made these past 20+ years, and look forward to reading the ones I’ve yet to create, then supporting us on Patreon really is the best way to make sure they happen. I’ve done the math here before, but I put out about 156 regular comics a year. At the $3 tier, that’s about $0.23 a page ($0.19 a page if you sign up for a year and get 16% off). I’m hoping that this change encourages enough people to support us directly to balance out the decline in advertising viability we’ve seen over the past couple of years. 2% of our readers support us on Patreon. If we can get that to 3%, we’d be golden.
I have posted this comic three times a week for free since 2002, and I held off changing that for as long as possible. But the online landscape that made that model possible has changed a lot since then. Most of the advertising dollars go to video platforms like YouTube and TikTok, while A.I. “art” floods social media. I feel like I have to make some adjustments.
This way lets me add value to our Patreon that hopefully draws more support there, while still continuing to post pages for free (albeit a bit slower).
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