News Free Comics was an attempt at trying to sell comics strips without news, basically a funny pages mailed to you.  Unfortunately, it didn’t pan out:

I knew a subscription drive was a long shot, but when I made the decision to go that route it seemed like the best option to raise the necessary capital to make it through the first year. I have enough money in my personal savings that I could cashflow the first few years of publishing myself, an option that I had considered, but the subscription drive also served the purpose of guaging fan interest in this idea. Fan interest was very low. Alas.