But, then, I’m old enough to be haunted by the things I tried to float.

I sense you’re conflicted on this topic, Fes. What you might want to do is consider what you want the Webcomic Beacon to be. If you consider it a personal podcast that talks about webcomics and various things and you’re happy with it as it is, then there’s no need to listen to the advice I’ve offered.

However, if you want it to be an instrument that webcartoonists turn to in striving to improve their own comics and that various cartoonists turn to to talk about their own projects and aspirations, and if you’re unable to finagle your time management to keep up a weekly pace while instituting the changes suggested in valid criticisms, then reducing your update schedule for WB may be your best choice.

The problem is (and I speak from personal experience) that you risk not effectively utilizing that extra time and just letting things slide anyway. Inertia is very difficult to overcome; this is why hiatus is a death-knell for a number of webcomics.

The benefits of instituting the suggested changes is that the WB may very well become an effective and efficient instrument for cartoonists instead of a grab bag of the occasional gem and gravel.

As for negative criticism… there is no such a thing as bad criticism. The increased traffic from people visiting your site from a less-than-positive review is still added traffic you didn’t have before, and some of those people will stay on. It’s a reason why I am reluctant to do a negative review… people will visit the site out of curiosity, so why send the extra traffic their way when I dislike the comic? ^^

Rob H.