Yeah, artist pay won't be affected. Doesn't matter if it's 20 pages a month for a floppy, or 120 pages every six months for an OGN, delivered to the publisher in 20 page installments every month. Either way the artist gets paid the same way.
Here in the UK, Beano (an weekly anthology humour comic that's been running since the 1930s) is still publishing, and this week's issue features a Pup Parade story that hadn't appeared before, but was actually drawn and paid for four years ago. For some reason it's run then ended with two pages unused, and one of them was used this week.
http://lewstringercomics.blogspot.co...rn-of-pup.html