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.
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.
People have been asking this question here a lot lately (not sure, why, but still). MoR has been by far the most effective ad for LW so far, but this is a one-man effort. I wonder if a web comic drawn by the regulars based on, say, recent posts and comments would be another way to get people interested. Just to set the bar really, really low, here is my quick impression of this post (the idea is stolen from #lesswrong, but the obvious bad pun is mine):