# Anyone gotten a book printed? (Short run, color pics)

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** books-writing-myths\
**Created:** [March 2, 2022, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-gotten-a-book-printed-short-run-color-pics/960373 "2022-03-02T22:38:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2022, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-gotten-a-book-printed-short-run-color-pics/960373/21 "2022-03-05T01:51:28Z")

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But with a graphic novel you are not merely printing 6 to 8 copies. So you can take it to a normal comic books publisher. Or wait until you have enough orders.

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**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2022, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-gotten-a-book-printed-short-run-color-pics/960373/22 "2022-03-06T07:13:45Z")

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We did “Distanced Doodling” at a park during the summer of '20, and one of the young women finished her graphic novel, and started a Patreon for printing it (got enough to print a dozen hardcovers and twice as many paperbacks! Yay!).

Too bad no one’d contribute toward printing my mom’s reminiscences…

(And if they did, I’m not sure I want to live in a world that is so random that the public would pay for an ordinary midwest great-grandmother with a run-of-the-mill housewife “career”…)

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