My original lede for this piece went like this:

Mark it down in the history books. March 11, 2013 was the day that Webcomics-as-we-knew-it ended.

But, having written in this space since 2009, I’ve learned my lesson about doing that. What happens is people read the first sentence, thgen proceed to run in circles, screaming, without bothering to read the rest. So let’s skip the hysterics and dissect the meaningfulness of yesterday’s events for independent creators on the Web.

In case you missed it, here’s what happened:

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