David Revoy creates the series entirely with free software, such as Krita and Inkscape, making the Krita source files for each image available for download. All artwork is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. He explicitly encourages fanart and other derivative works.

They sell books which is kind of a tradeoff, but its more like a way to support the artist. Because the digital copies are free, anyone can read or print the book by themselves. On their shop where they sell their books they give you 3 options – soft cover, hard cover, or download it as a PDF. You can see they sell it as a PDF while you can already get that for free, it shows that its more like a donation to support the artist.

Tab sis kuv yuav tsuas muab nws 3 blocks ua lawv muag lwm yam khoom ib yam nkaus thiab, xws li t-shirts, stickers lwm yam.

Lawv cov khoom nkawd yuav trade-dawb, tiam sis tau kawg lawv muag khoom xws li tshirts, stickers, comic phau ntawv. Txawm li ntawd los, vim koj yeej tseem nyeem cov phau ntawv comic hauv online thiab download lawv artwork, ces kuv yuav muab lawv cov blocks 2.

I would give 3 blocks, since they indeed offer their comics as trade-free, however they also link to a shop, facebook and twitter page (trade-based networks). And the ad to their shop is quite “in your face”: https://www.directory.trade-free.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Pasted.jpg