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.
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”…)