We began drawing comics for our mutual and family amusement. Somehow we wandered onto the web, and it became a responsibility. This would have been fine if we had received more support in terms of reader response and merchandise sales, but in the end, the silence stripped the fun out of it. It became an obligation without reward. We can only conclude the merchandise didn't appeal and that people were too busy to write in. Unfortunately, we'll never know for sure. We're not ones to beg, or hype our stuff in the public arena, or go to conventions to hustle attention.
We tried to remove ourselves from the comics-on-the-web quagmire, and let our work speak for itself. We never tried to shove it on people, and it did find a decent audience. Unfortunately, that audience was mostly mute, and we could find no reason to continue on the web. Without the nourishment of reader response, we were gradually depleted of the energy required to keep a deadline and continue making our work public.
If there is something on the web you enjoy for free and care about, support it. Otherwise it may vanish.