I am a person who has made things that are unambiguously A Graphic Novel by any modern definition that wants to set them apart from other forms of "comics" and

I am a person who has made things that are unambiguously A Graphic Novel by any modern definition that wants to set them apart from other forms of "comics" and I am also very aware that I am making several orders of magnitude less off of my work than my friend whose "graphic novels" are collections of her comic strips that barely have three or four days of continuity. As a category in the world of multinational book publishing conglomerates, two hundred pages of words and pictures that tell a coherent story aimed at a (young) adult reading level are just about indistinguishable from a hundred pages of words and pictures that tell a succession of one- to three-page-long stories aimed at a middle-grade kid. And from a collection of issues of Batman, whether or not those issues form a coherent story. We all fit into the same box on a publisher's spreadsheet. Most of it's taken up by the stuff for kids.