What should we do about portrait and landscape display to make it easier for readers? By the way, cool article!

thanks!

Your appeal makes complete sense. I strive to do the very things you call for in my own webcomic, Silly Daddy.
As for Jamie's comment/question about portrait or landscape, if you make your comics in a square format, then they won't matter which way the reader is holding their device. I try to use a square format quite often.

Someone asked me off line if it was better to make a smaller version for devices and a regular one for regular screens. The answer is no. Make one version available. Remember that the device uses the same surfing real estate of a regular screen, only the screen is smaller in size. That means that a regular page appears smaller, but keeps all info intact.

So making a smaller version will make it harder for people to read!

Hey there guys. I'm a big phone user, and do everything online that most PC users do (and a little more) from my phone every day, including reading web comics. One of the biggest problems with existing web comics is that fonts are presented too small in multiple panels and I have to reload the page to a much higher resolution and zoom in on the comic to read it properly (costing more data). Some like SMBC and Savage Chickens are designed as single panel comics and this works so well that I rarely have to reload at all, making them my most read web comics. An ideal solution would be to split multi panel comics into single panels and keep the strip format by placing them side by side on the page, but allowing mobile users to hit each panel seperately.