Being the lamest in the flat

Since doing thought bubble I thought that one of the main issues with my work was that people picked it up, read it all and then put it down and left which I found really frustrating. So I decided to package my comic, I put it in A6 cellophane bags and put a sticker in with it as a free prize. But this time it went the other way in which people saw the comic and picked it up but once they saw it was packaged they put it down again and moved on. I think people like to be able to see what the comic is going to be like before buying it and in the past they read it all because it was so short but this comic was actually a decent size so in retrospect I think I could have left these out to be flicked through.

I was thinking that next time I'll package them so that you can read a couple pages but the rest are packaged together so that people won't get the whole story for free.

The fair was a bit of a failure for me because I only made £1.50. It was a big knock back to make a loss on a £2.50 table and honestly I stopped working for a while and had a small existential crisis.
I tried to sell my comics again at a table top general sale but sadly again I sold no comics whatsoever. So this summer kind of bummed me out on illustration. But I think once I got over the initial disappointment of not magically being an amazingly popular illustrator straight away I started seeing where I was going wrong.

First thing to change was sharing a table with my flat mates, although it makes sharing the time behind it easier and we can work as a team making things less stressful, I think it made my work just blend into the crowd. My 3 flatmates are all very talented Illustrators and their work is eye catching and commercial, whereas I tend to go down a more 'weird' and ugly route of drawing. My main aim is to make humorous comics and I think I sabotaged myself sharing a table with Hollie because she already surpasses me in her humour and comic skills. I let her work shadow mine, because when they are all on the same table next to each other you instantly compare them and I found that mine were drawing the short straw each time as customers were immediately picking up the others work whereas mine barely got a look in. So at the next fair I am going to have my own table to myself and then I can set it up specifically to showcase my work and decorate it with things that bring out the good qualities in my work.