Yenny is his IP, and his goal should be to vendor said IP into what will earn him the most money. I understand people being upset in the fact that there are certain pieces of art by Ozzy that they cannot purchase, especially since it is nearly eight years old and has been unpurchasable for quite some time. I am sure there would be plenty of residual income on that set of art alone (I've gone on record of saying I'd pay hefty sums for both comics). I know I couldn't buy them because, at that time, I was 16/17 years old.
But I don't think he owes me anything. I don't care if he 'sold out' to a bigger, more marketable audience. More people here would do the same thing if they were afforded the opportunity, and to say they wouldn't is an absolute lie. TomatoDragon pulled how many pieces of art when he was making Stipplewitz into a main stream venture, and I have yet to hear if that got off the ground. Why aren't people upset with him? I don't follow his comic strip, but I do know it is successful enough to warrant a following much larger than the one in the tickling community. I don't follow that form of media unless it is like Perry Bible Fellowship or Toothpastefordinner or Achewood. Just because I don't like Pantera doesn't mean others like it.
I wish him and all the artists here success. Quality might be very minuscule given that everything is so commercialized in its conditioning, but I would never speak ill of the contributions made by people who used to be in this community. Ozzy hasn't warranted disdain; he warrants praise.