It sounds like a weird webcomics riddle, doesn’t it? “When is a complaint actually a compliment?” After all, as webcartoonists, we’ve always prided ourselves one the granular level of interaction that we maintain with our readers. Both the original “How To Make Webcomics” book and the updated version, “The Webcomics Handbook” devoted an entire chapter to it. One could argue that it’s a definitive feature of webcomics.

So, it stands to reason that when readers complain, we webcartoonists become very concerned.

And we do — we should.

Except when we shouldn’t.

Here’s what you need to understand…

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