"There are few industries where we feel the Substack model could be more game-changing than in comics, where the gap in power and earning potential between publishers and for-hire creators is enormous, and where the creator of a story can spawn a nine-figure franchise and yet take home little more than a standard paycheck."

"These creators are supported by Substack Pro packages designed to kickstart going independent and remove the risks of starting a publishing enterprise."

"We do that by providing a financial guarantee combined with access to services, support, and community."

"But it’s the calmness of the model that’s the real killer feature."

"Substack is designed to be a calm space that encourages reflection."

"That means letting writers own their relationships with their readers and giving them the ability to take those relationships off the platform whenever they want."

"It also means letting readers fully control what they see in their feeds by avoiding ads and disincentivizing culture-war superweapons like retweetable quote-retweets (such as my mean tweets above)."

"I sincerely hope that Facebook and Twitter take this approach and apply it to more than just newsletters, because the world’s information ecosystem is at a crisis point."

"There are now more than 500,000 paid subscriptions across Substack"