Choosing Paths With Your Comic Strip
Posted in Business of Strips on February 8th, 2010 by SteveThe comic strip community likes to debate the many routes a cartoonist can take – print vs. web, running your own site vs. joining a collective or aggregator, etc. They are passionate debates and good points are made for all views. But no matter what path you as a cartoonist decide, it’s still about one thing: creating your art and being good to your readers.
Zingerding.com will be an aggregator site. We want to bring cartoonists and readers together in one place, through a single platform with a common interface. I believe this is what readers need to adopt comics online at great scale.
By choosing Zingerding, you may be giving up certain things that are important to you. If being able to design and control all aspects of your website, or keeping 100% of your income, is a top priority, then you should run your own site and business.
But you may not have the technical skills, the entrepreneurial desire, or the time to run solo (essentially starting a business). I reject the notion that to be a “professional” cartoonist online, you need to run your own website. Sure, the collectives out there aren’t much better, but Zingerding will change that. If you want to focus on your art instead of building a site, and you desire an automated publishing experience with built-in readership-growing features, Zingerding may be a good match.
One path is not better than the other. Rather, one path is a better fit for some cartoonists than for others.

