How about "but by the characters of their content"?

But seriously, great strip as always.

At this point, it's far more likely that either the Internet will collapse under the weight of the economy, and changes to web-avoidant organizations like the NCS will become unnecessary, or else newspapers will continue to die off, and organizations like the NCS will die off from their continued shortsighted dismissal of the Internet. (It's not like web cartoonists haven't tried to play nice before -- it's the print media cartoonists who have consistently brushed them off.)

Why would you care to associate with such as Jim Davis, Mort Walker or Tom Wilson? Aren't they everything you and other web/indie artists are trying so hard NOT to be? I know this: I read you guys, and ignore them.

If the amount of money you make is correlated to the quality or importance of your work, Wilson would have starved to death by 1987, or found honest work as a sign-painter. As for Walker, well, if I want Bible education I'll go register as a Republican.

On the other hand, Davis does make garfield minus garfield possible, so there is some redeeming value there.

I was hoping to get that quip in first!

But kudos to Keef; "content of their characters" was such a beautifully apposite reference, and a cool pun to boot.

Hey! Don't forget Randall Munroe!

http://xkcd.com/ is a Web phenomenon in its own right.
"A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language."

This from a HUGE Keith Knight fan (although, being French, not fat)
:P

It's impractical because the newspaper guys want to differentiate themselves from the web comic guys. Being "published and paid" is their only prestige point, one that they are clinging to as newspapers die across the country.

However...if I had a massive artistic talent like you, and I wanted to go to a convention, I can think of a lot better places to go than San Diego. I went to that con as an amateur (web) journalist for several years, and drowned in an attempt to cover anything in that swamp. No more Comic-Con, ever!

However, if it were a "moveable feast," travelling to a different American city every year...think of the varied cuisine, sights, local events and fun things cartoonists could do. And people in those cities, who never even thought of the cartoons in their newspapers, might get interested in these strange and wacky individuals who create the comics. And cartooning might enjoy a revival.

For those who read this column: I've seen Keith Knight talking to big audiences at Comic-Con. He's terrific on the stump. He's entertaining, funny, touching and politically insightful. He'd be a great front man and the first person the news crews should talk to at such conventions.