I am SPECULATING HERE, so please don't accuse me of making accusations. But I believe one reason why it's so hard for me to get my comics published by a major publisher is because most mainsteam comics publishers are (too) conservative. Meaning that they tend to believe that doing things the convential way is the most likely way for them to maintain their success. Perhaps they believe that since being conventional has benefited them for so long, they figure that publishing new-fangled toons with way-out concepts would pose a danger to their success. Risk aversion is another way to put it. "But, Yul, why don't you just do cartoons the way the bigshots want them to be one?" Well one reason I don't is because even that is no guarantee of success. I could literally rip off a successful comic and have it rejected on those grounds. So creating a comic that is 100 percent what the publisher wants is highly, highly difficult.