You know, the thought crossed my mind too, I just didn't find a way to express it that neatly. Places like big-chain bookstores have all manner of odd ways to pile and display books on tables and racks, but comic stores have less space, fewer options, and are less likely to set you up a spiff display table the way Borders might do for an odd-shaped best seller. You'd likely end up under a counter or in the back room, or in a pile of odds and ends at some of the stores I've visited.

Man, and it's not just shelf space either, come to think of it-- shipping from the printer could be a hassle as well. I know from many times moving my odd little library that books do not ship well if they cannot be packed neat and tight. Packing peanuts are not really a help with something as heavy as compacted paper. So you'd have to have boxes made for some of the really odd-dimension books, which is not actually so much of a problem as having books bound differently, but further jacks the price.

Posters are definitely a much better idea.

Ooh, some of them could really go all out, too, imagine the dorm room potential. Some of the really ambitious infinite canvas strips could become posters that you could literally wrap around the entire room. Take that, "The Scream"!

These would be a really good idea, but, they'd have to be done with a lot more skill than some of the 'infinite canvas' artists currently display. With someone like Neal Von Flue, the composition is actually fluid so the overall design is pleasing. I think some of the sidescrolling offerings people put out, though, would really make a poster-purchaser wonder, why didn't they just cut this up into a book. If the poster, from across the room, just looks like a comic book printed in poster form, it would disappoint me. Unless the panels made a greater design with their colour values, like one o' them photo designs made up of little photos. That would be very cool.

Posters are easier to distort than book pages though, so it wouldn't all have to fall in an easy aspect ratio to keep from being cost-excruciating. So it's a really good idea that can be executed well or really badly. That would solve the whole "I Hope Your Infinite Canvas Comics Double As A Nutritious Meal" dilemma anyhow, and give people something lasting to show for it.