Can you give me even a single example of a webcomic drawn and written collectively that is any good? Even stick-figure comics require a consistent style, both in art and in writing.
The American comic industry is built almost entirely on a 'collective' model - one person writes the stories, another person may turn that into quasi-storyboard script, another does all the drawing, and another may handle the inking/painting etc. There are other steps too (eg. editors), I think, but beyond that I'm not sure. (Most of my knowledge comes from reading through the Sandman extras like the scripts and marginal discussions, where many details imply such a process.) Manga frequently has similar separations as well (since it was brought up in another comment-thread, Death Note was a pair, a writer & an artist), but I don't think it's nearly as common.
To name 3 well-regarded webcomics just from the ones I personally read which use such an assembly line process, Dr. McNinja Girl Genius, and Erfworld. (I guess there's Megatokyo as well, before they split, and Penny Arcade has a writer/artist split come to think of it.)
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 t...
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):