Steve Block wrote:
I think they were advocates rather than experts, weren't they?
This is not the case and does them a great injustice. Though it's possible such an assumption of bad faith from outsiders was behind the dedicated attempts to drive them off.
Webcomics haven't really been around long enough to have established academic roots.
This is not the case either. Try a websearch on "webcomics academic".
You should read up on the arbitration case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Webcomics
- d.