Suggestions:

1.. A full body shot of Fred and Adam looking ‘back’ at the viewer with a pithy comment taken from the strips.

2. I’ve got to get an Announcer t-shirt with his head thrown back and again a pithy comment taken from the strips.

The lettering should be your hand made cartoon font. And for a pithy comment, I would suggest non-sequiturs. Such as only the first line from Panel #1 of the November 30th strip. An outsider looking at such a shirt is going to have a brain tantrum trying to decipher what he/she is seeing. And why…. [ooooh… ellipses…]

White shirts / black lines or the reverse - no grays.

- I tend to prefer a larger format, but I believe your common reader will prefer something that they can get through within about forty-five to sixty seconds, maybe less for fast readers. I’m not really sure what that’s saying. I think your best bet is to just use whatever format that you believe is best. If it turns out to be the wrong choice (no idea what metric you’d use to determine whether), you can always pick a new format down the line.

- Your news blog is your most important interface to your readers. Use it. Talk. Show the readers that there is a person with a personality behind the drawings. It’ll build empathy between yourself and your fans, which will do wonders for retention and, crass as it sounds, marketability.

- I’m good. Getting ready to put out my first book collection. Have you heard about the guy whose urine was white? No one could ever tell whether he was coming or going.

- You can never go wrong with book collections, especially if you go print-on-demand, since the financial investment will effectively be zero. It’ll just cost you the time to lay the book out. I’m using Lulu for my first book, and they print some quality stuff for ya. If you’re going to do any cons, some thin, saddle-stitched minis would be good to have for cheap on your table, too. Remember that you can also ask your local comic shops if they’re willing to give you a little counter space.
T-shirts are popular (see: all Dumbrella comics), though I’m not personally interested in making them yet.
Buttons are good for viral marketing, in addition to having very good margins.

@Kevin: Yeah, I’m going to try to bring back more technical discussions.

@Samineru: Well, I have been toying with doing a couple of larger format strips next week, so we’ll see. As for the words… I’ll have to see how I can work that part out.