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The Assembly-line process is not quite what I meant. One person writing, another person drawing like what T Campbell does (in Fans! or Penny&Aggie, etc) is one thing -- same thing with what Mark Stanley does in Freefall where he writes and draws but another person colors it.
Those comics still have one writer, and one artist. And so they maintain continuity of style.
I thought shminux meant a different process where we all contribute on all levels, e.g. by each individually picking from a list of topics and each writing and drawing a complete strip of them all, much as Wikipedia has many editors which can all create articles. In short a vertical division, not a horizontal one. This would produce discontinuity and vastly different levels of quality from day to day.
Probably. American comics do not maintain a single artist or writer over their entire run, usually, even creator-dominated comics like Neil Gaiman's Sandman rotate all positions (although there were far more artists than writers for Sandman, IIRC), but the turnover tends to be over many issues/months or years, and I imagine their general skill level would be much higher than a LW collective.
Eh, I'm not married to any particular solution, just thought that a regular strip, however produced, might attract some people not amenable to spending hours on reading either the sequences or the fanfic. Whether it is a good idea to attract attention of people like that, is a whole different issue.
The Gutters, which has provided me with a fair amount of amusement recently, seems to be consistently written by Ryan Sohmer, but drawn by whoever he can get on board for a strip.