FMP: where does my work belong

Now I've established that I'm making an indie comic I have to think about where this comic is going to go, I've started looking at print fairs coming up. the northern craft fair seems like it might be an okay fit but I might need something more general than just a print fair. However when I spoke to Krystena and other comic/zine makers they've all said the same thing, as soon as you go to one you start hearing about more! I'm keeping my eye out and I've asked others to help me keep an eye out too!

Apart from that I've been looking locally at indie zine suppliers, my best bet would be to go and talk to the owners of OK comics after I've made the zine, take a copy to show and ask whether this is something that they'd consider stocking. I know that they have got local artists who do drop work off there to be sold and that they are really interested in local illustrative talent. So they are definitely on the list of people to speak too once it's been produced. The other obvious candidate is Travelling Man, they already have some of my work there and they might consider taking more possibly? I feel like it's less of chance with them as they stock lots of professionally made work. For me I think speaking to OK is my first port of call. I'm hoping that the next month and a half is going to give me enough time to produce at least ONE comic for the end of year show, ideally it would be a collection of 3 (that would expand to more as the story continue through others dreams) but as I'm painting these panels, it's unpredictable as to how fast I can work like this. I created a zine in gouache in a week last year but that was all line work, this is the first time I've worked solidly with gouache and I'm still not sure how fast it's going to be fixing it digitally.
I do know that I will have it finished and bound to a good standard for D&AD and I'm going to make copies of it and hopefully drop it off to publishing house whilst I'm in London for 4 days.