Selling out! No way! When I was a kid I was horrified to discover, aged about 14 that there'd been StarWars figures and I'd never even known! As a 10 year old, I'd have killed for them. ;-) Sorry, I keep doing the StarWars thing here don't I?
To that end, the merchandise one, I mean, I have a whole load of post cards on Zazzle (
www.zazzle.co.uk/drawnbyhand*) featuring some of the stuff from my book (all like my avatar) and I've done three character sketches, I've more of those in the pipeline. The characters are just faces, though, so I haven't put them up there, I reckon they'll only sell when I get to the point where I'm sketching scenes from the book. The art definitely gets a reaction though so it's worth doing.
Yeh, it's interesting... stacks of potential.
Cheers
MTM