Broken Frontier: World Wide Webcomics

Boy, this one took a while, but there's a lot of good stuff in it. Some highlights:

Finland treats support for the arts as a matter of national urgency, and Finnish cartoonists report that their commission rates, adjusted for the exchange rate, are far superior to those of their American counterparts. With that kind of incentive, more Western Europeans are likely to be picking up styluses in the years to come...

As of February, after a year in the market, Netcomics was getting 2,000 pageviews a day. Ice Kunion is moving into the translated e-manhwa business and doesn't seem eager to repeat Netcomics' model: its website, still under construction, announces that upon its launch, all titles will be free to read.

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