SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Davan is a young man, the main character in a webcomic called "Something Positive" by Randy K. Milholland.

RANDY MILHOLLAND: “When I started the comics off, he was who I had been a couple of years earlier.”

Randy Milholland created the comic ten years ago after he lost a job. He says Davan has changed over the years.

RANDY MILHOLLAND: “Early in the comic, he was very sarcastic, always negative. He would rather make snarky retorts than actually act to make things better.”

Randy Milholland continued the comic for fun after he got a new job. But doing it as a hobby meant fewer comics.

RANDY MILHOLLAND: “When I was doing comics every other week, therefore I was missing updates. Readers were complaining about it. So I kind of issued a challenge that if they wanted to pay my salary from my day job, I would quit my day job and focus only on the comics.”

They did – and he became a full-time comic artist on the Web. His website averages two hundred fifteen thousand page views a day.

MARIO RITTER: By some estimates there are thirty-six thousand webcomic creators worldwide. Randy Milholland earns money through advertising and sales of T-shirts and other products online.

Danielle Corsetto, creator of 'Girls with Slingshots,' earns income from ads as well as from the sale of comic-inspired merchandise.

So does Danielle Corsetto. She is the creator of “Girls with Slingshots.” Ms. Corsetto drew her first comic strip when she was eight years old. Now, she updates “Girls with Slingshots” five times a week. About twenty-five thousand people read her comics online each day.