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This is the whole book printed out on single sheets. Looks pretty hefty! Having read through it, I've decided to add four more pages as I don't like the pacing in the first part of the story. It will run at 80 pages, but was originally intended to be much much longer, so I have plenty of stuff I can add in.
I still need to sort out the text, and may have found a printing solution (need to talk to someone this weekend about it).
Top Shelf have turned me down, which I'm not surprised about, and Fantagraphics replied to say they thought it was a childrens book. It's nice they got back in touch, I wasn't really expecting a great response to it. Waiting to see if anyone else gets back about it.

It's probably a tough one for publishers, I should've planned for this before I started.
Here's where I went wrong:
1. They haven't heard of me, so it's risky to begin with. I should've signed my work 'Alan Moore' instead.
2. It's painted and could prove expensive to reproduce. I should've done it standard comic size in black and white or computer coloured.
3. It's not the 'hot' style at the moment. I should've gone Manga, that seems a lot easier to shift.
4. It's not easy to market. I should've been controversial or done something that would sit well in a guardian review. I might try this next time, how hard can it be....
5. It's a tough market. I should've killed off every other comic artist and writer or a least scared them off the idea of wanting to get anything published.
6. Not much room for merchandise. Actually, you can make merchandise from anything these days, that's not a problem.
7. I was going to say it wouldn't make a good movie, but it doesn't matter if it's good or not, they'll try and make it anyway. Maybe it would be a good movie. I'd better get that screenplay ready, just incase.

There's the formula for making a graphic novel. Or not. Maybe that could an experiment.