Layout and Writing are made a lot easier in the digital world. This is a good thing: Before the ability to resize and move, it was a real pain to rearrange anything. Liquid paper, scratching paper away, cutting out sections and taping in new ones, it was a real chore. It was of paramount importance to have your layout set at the beginning. This didn`t leave a lot of flexibility to do things like set your dialog after you finished drawing. You needed to know beforehand what kind of space you would need. Sure, there was flexibility, but not a lot.
Also, setting the text is real simple. I use the Comic font provided with Windows. I debated writing out my own alphabet and making a custom font, but then even though my letters would be more unique they would still all be uniform. I lose the uniqueness of hand-lettering, but it`s a lot faster. Frankly, it allows me to do the two comics a week I do. Otherwise, even that would not happen.
One could debate the value of that, however. Does the comic strip world really need amateur hacks like me? I sidestep that whole argument by doing this for fun.