@Lady_T_Musings Oh wow! You went through some hardship for sure. I'm glad that you were able to pull through it all. I find the backstory on how and why you made your comic is very interesting. I just opened up a new tab and I'm looking forward to reading it.
@enoshiwa If you do have your print version. Have you ever though about going to a local store and see if they're willing to sell it through consignment?
My comic started back in High School as well. A lot of my friends were creating their own stories/artwork and preparing to turn it into a comic book. I was going through a lot of hardship in my teenage years and needed to release some of my pain. I heard writing was a great way to do that, so I started writing a journal. However, it soon morphed into a fantasy/adventure story about me and my current friends battling the forces of evil. I was obsessed with Sailor Moon and Buffy the Vampire Slayer at the time. I decided to make my story into a comic book, get it printed and sell it in stores.
I wanted it to stand out from the rest, so I incorporated all the things I never truly understood about the shows that I loved. Why is there a battle in every single episode? Why do characters automatically know how to use their new found abilities like pros? Why do characters suddenly change from scaredy-cats to tough agile warriors when in battle? Why is the adventure so straight-forward? Why do they make villains so obvious? Where's the mystery in the adventure?
Fast forward 6 years and it's been 5 years since I stopped drawing the comic (my art style was changing too much) and I've now edited my story at least 3-4 times since animation school. I felt like it was the time to start the new version of my comic. I reached out to my Myriam (character in the story), so she could read the draft and as feedback, she told me the story was weirdly paced and there were story gaps in the everywhere. So, I decided to scrap it again and start over.
Fast forward 2 years and it's a good to go according to Myriam. So, I sat down to start doing my comic again. I was pretty rusty after developing carpal tunnel syndrome (couldn't draw for 10 months) and suffering from depression from working as an animator to working in a call center. Stupid economy crisis of 2008! During that time, I became very aware of how unpopular I was on Deviantart and it bothered me. I became self-conscious on my own work and it affected me quite a bit. I became so focused on pleasing others, that the style wasn't my own and I was very slow and inconsistent. One page took me a month! I learned that you should never pay attention to numbers and definitely never succumb to the pressure of what's trendy. Always create for yourself. You'll get a lot more enjoyment doing it, your true skills will emerge and you'll also work a lot faster.
It was a real turning point for me as a artist/writer. I threw the scripts in the garbage. All 250 pages of it. I grabbed the unfinished sketchbook, which had the original comic i started in high school and started to draw in it. I wanted to kill everything that came before it and drawing in that book did the job. I was going to put in the extra effort and do it my way! I reached out to all of my high school friends who were featured in the story and asked if I could still use their name and their looks for the characters, warning them that I was scraping everything and making drastic changes in all the characters and storyline. Surprisingly, they still all agreed. 
And I also removed myself as character from the story.
It took for 4 years and it was well worth it! The script was solid and the the artwork is mine. I got the 1st comic book printed (cost a fortune, it's a coloured comic!) It didn't sell well and it bummed me out. But, I didn't give up and a year later, I released my 2nd comic. It did well. With the exception of 2020, I've released a book every year.
In 2019 though, a reader went on Facebook and asked the local comic book store if they carried my series. They didn't, but said they'd be interested. I jumped in the car right away and drove over. I now sell the comic series at 3 different stores in the province of New Brunswick. And at conventions, I sell more comics than anything else on my table, I don't mind it a bit. 
I didn't mean to write so much about the origins and how I got where I am now, but I guess if you've been doing it for 20 years, it's hard to keep it short.
