It would be difficult for me to describe how bored the idea of attaching some kind of profit scheme to an otherwise fun and creative activity actually makes me.
Look; I like money. I love money. Not as a means to an end. I just like to hold it and smell it and stuff and put it in a jar and take it for walks with me, but I digress. To talk about money in the same breath as an ad hoc organisation like the one we're hypothesizing is reasonably pointless.
There are two pretty significant reasons why:
1) Devising some kind of mechanism to earn money from this takes time and effort. It doesn't come inherently. That time and effort could be spent doing fun stuff, like, ummm, making comics. I appreciate that you may have "extensive experience running a business", whatever that actually entails, but just discussing this idea in monetary terms is souring it for me... there is no product yet. There is no actual group yet. I honestly don't think anybody who read the thread and the suggestions regarding a comic-jam inferred any kind of commercial aspect to that endeavour. Chill.
2) It would be safest to assume that a sizable chunk of the talent-pool is going to be less-than-stellar. That may very well include me, but I'm not really inclined to get anybody else to foot the bill for something that I don't think deserves it. Sure, somebody may have a crudely rendered, yet ingeniously written masterpiece waiting in the wings, but I'd rather wait and see if that's the case than blindly assume that it is.
Look upon this as a chance to improve your skills, not rake in some rupees.