Time and effort

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A single comic page on average takes about 6 hours (21,600 seconds) to produce; from planning the layout to penciling to inking and finally to toning. When compared to the mere 30 seconds or less it takes a reader to read that same page, all the time and effort spent seem undeserved.

However to be more accurate we should take account of the number of readers a comic will have over the period of it’s existence, for example 2,000 readers translates into 60,000 seconds or close to 17 hours a page. That makes more than double the time invested in creating a comic page. Time and effort does pay.