What Newspaper Cartoonists Can Learn from Web Comics

Earlier this month, Randall Munroe, creator of the hugely popular web comic xkcd, announced on his blog that he would be publishing a book collection of the strip. Given the number of six-figure book deals that major book publishers have thrust upon popular bloggers, there's little doubt that Munroe's millions of monthly readers could have easily garnered him a similar signing. But he chose to publish his book through BreadPig, a company set up by Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian...[read rest of article here.]

Gives me some much-needed ideas + inspiration as I'm shifting away from pursuing traditional print media, which is hard because that's supposed to be the measure of "making it", right? Well, time to re-think what it means by "making it."