I'm actually going to give Chris some credit here for realising, at long last that there's more money in him drawing Sonichu than there possibly is in anything else he could do. It's what most people have cited as the way he can make some money again yet he's always shied away from doing it since 'inspiration is a big variable,' so at least for once he's listening to the people who give him advice.
Of course, just like with the shirt, he's going to realise after a few days of relatively intensive work that he hates putting effort into Sonichu and will probably stop, even before we get out of Christmas time in the story. Unless his finances really are that bad (which his recent game purchases would reject), although there's no way of knowing if him simply drawing a few pages will give him a spike of income to begin with.