So Dylan wrote this thing on webcomics burnout for Comixpedia, one of those sites I really ought to visit more regularly, but keep managing to forget about. It's pretty good. Read it, if you can get a chance. It's over here.
I've see this happen a few times, on the Modern Tales websites and on the 'net in general. Creator burnout, that is. It's never pretty. Print comics suffer from the same phenomenon, but people always seem to be far more forgiving if a deadwood issue of a comic never comes out than if a webpage stops updating. Maybe it has something to do with the instant gratification so many Internet types are used to. Or maybe it's because the cost of a print comic is in the thousands, and webhosting for an online comic ranges from free to a pittance monthly, unless you're unreasonably successful. You can be forgiven for being poor, it seems, but not for being uninspired. I'm sure both online and deadwood readers complain when their favorite funnybook fails to materialize, but the instant accessibility of an online artist to his or her fans means they're a lot more likely to hear that bitching firsthand. Which, really, isn't doing the artist any favors.
Comics are hard enough. Your own fans shouldn't work against you.
