How the boy who could not cry became a man - a graphic novel

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Turn the Page - and play with it is a production/design R&D studio.
We are currently specialising as an amateur team of comic book-making enthusiasts.

Our first studio project is - due in December 2016,
a graphic novel called "How the boy who could not cry became a man."

We want to focus on producing comic books, graphic novels, short movies, software, and mechatronic amusements (robots and puppets.)

The plan is to make a series of zero budget movie-making projects on video in 2016 - written by Mike. Then use those experiences to leverage those successes (hopefully) to start working towards our bigger movie-making and comic book publishing goals - one of which is to sell 4,000 units of our first graphic novel.

We will also be using money from the sale of our comic books to invest in our design projects. Mike has a few ideas for software and mechatronics.

Mike and Matt are both interested in creature design and writing/concept art for games.

How the boy who could not cry became a man is a surreal story set in the militarised time-travelling scavenger world of the future. It's a high action story with lots of morbidly precise violence and bleak humour. The focus for the dialogue is on the painfully mundane and realistic. There are also aliens and an alternate dimension which our (anti)hero discovers.

I've written 2,000 words of the treatment I hope to finish the treatment by end of october and the script by end of December.
I'm partnered with an illustrator friend to do the graphic novel, we're working together on building a studio.
And I hope to raise $3,300 to print 500 copies of the 64 page thick glossy perfect bound half colour, half black and white book by next December.

This is our first graphic novel. I hope to promote it by getting my novel published. And we are making some short movies next year.
I also plan to get my tv script sold which will help.

Any advice for distribution?
I was thinking of getting in touch with funtime and gotham for armageddon expo.
Besides that I was considering a kickstarter (I've backed 70+ projects)
And I need to get it into a shop.
 
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