An essay by Joey Manley, founder of Modern Tales, a webcomics content and technology provider…

A point he made that is very close to my heart: “It is precisely because the business of web content is contradictory, counterintuitive, ever-changing, and, well, practically impossible, that small entrepreneurs like you and I (and, yes, if you’re making a webcomic in the hopes of deriving a profit from it, you are an entrepreneur) have any hope at all of success.”

Besides this, a good overview of the business models emerging in the relatively small webcomics space…