The general thread for Manga / manga-styled comic-making, manga-style illustration and related comic work. That said, everyone is welcome here.Support each other and talk about your work or the work of others that excites you. Inking, character design, paneling / layout, writing, planning, and other discussions are all welcome.Post resources, questions, in-progress pages, breakdowns of other works, etc. If a work is not yours, credit the maker (unless it's fucking obvious like a full page of One Piece or something).Thanks to everyone for making /mmg/ a level-headed and helpful place. Remember, drawing and making comics and manga are difficult endeavors, and we're all in this struggle together.Previous thread: >>7877408Some resources:/asg/, our stylistic sister-thread series for those focused more on illustration >>>/ic/asgBooks:Understanding Comicshttps://e-hentai.org/g/2042453/83e7da6ed0/Making Comicshttps://annas-archive.org/md5/d55168f7579c1e23275d1fc9f0a2255dManga in Theory and Practice: The Craft of Creating Mangahttps://annas-archive.org/md5/2877da11e2f852d220853e9944e6ea49Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwritinghttps://archive.org/details/RobertMcKeeStorypdf/Even a Monkey Can Draw Mangahttps://kupdf.net/download/even-a-monkey-can-draw-manga_58b9ca16e12e89233badd376_pdfThe Shonen Jump Guide to Making Mangahttps://mega.nz/file/i81imLpI#GcheJ9Jjk3lw1RE9nQWgL4RG4wEBNOcRmgA-iaU6WpgVideos:"Manga Senpai/Tokyo Name Tank", "SMAC! THE SILENT MANGA AUDITION COMMUNITY"Habanero Scans: https://www.dailymotion.com/HabaneroScans/videosManben link can be found on archive.org on different pages separated by season: https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/1bu9f0y/found_all_of_naoki_urasawas_manben_and_manben_neo/Urasawa Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkIFOAoFm47XOAlJwTa6Ieg/videosOP image is from Hebiichigo 2
>>7885023Some western / indie publishers of Manga:Saturday AM ( https://www.saturday-am.com/ )> Digital indie magazine, seems to be on the up-and-up> Open submissions for long-form series; also distributes series currently being published elsewhere.> Regularly publishes one-shots, making it a good potential outlet for already-finished work.Oni Press ( https://onipress.com/ )> Technically indie, but at this point large enough by comic standards to be mentioned in the same breath as other publishers.Antarctic Press ( https://antarctic-press.myshopify.com/ )> Longtime large-indie publisher of OEL / manga-esque books.> Seemingly taking submissions at present if https://antarctic-press.myshopify.com/pages/submissions is anything to go on.Yen Press ( https://yenpress.com/ )> Started out as a small indie publisher of original / Korean material, and has grown reasonably popular since.> As of 2016, it is also one of the western arms of the Kadokawa Corporation, with Kadokawa owning a 51% stake.> Editorial inquiries can apparently be sent to yenpress@yenpress.com, however, they apparently are not open to new submissions at this time.Viz Media / Viz Originals ( https://www.viz.com/originals )> *The* western manga publisher.> Currently in the exploratory stages of setting up an English label.> Submissions are open and several books have been announced. However, progress on the label seems to be moving very slowly.> Still might be worth a shot anyway.Shrine Comics ( https://shrinecomics.com/ )> Small indie manga publisher> Seemingly attempting to make the transition to physical volumes> Allows crossposting to other sitesIconic Comics (https://www.iconiccomics.com/)>A bit like Oni Press and Antarctic Press>A small publisher with a focus on indie works with manga inspiration
>>7885024Other open comic publishers:Dark Horse ( https://www.darkhorse.com )>Dark Horse still welcomes your submissions, and all submissions will still be reviewed, just as they always have been.>All unsolicited story/series proposals must have a full creative team on board. Writer-only proposals will not be reviewed.Image comics ( https://imagecomics.com/ )>Image Comics only publishes creator-owned material. They do not contract creators; they’re only interested in publishing original content for which you would retain all rights.>Image Comics publishes creator-owned/creator-generated properties and THEY DON’T PAY PAGE RATES. Image takes a small flat fee off the books published, and it will be the responsibility of the creators to determine the division of the remaining pay between their creative team members.Drawn and quarterly ( https://drawnandquarterly.com/ )>Please email a low resolution PDF with at least 20 pages of comics and cover letter to submissions. Do not send dropbox links, scripts, or proposals. Please read our submissions FAQ.Fantagraphics ( https://www.fantagraphics.com/ )>submission page: https://www.fantagraphics.com/pages/faqTop Shelf Productions ( https://www.topshelfcomix.com/ )>Regarding submissions, we're easy. Just email us a download link of what you'd like us to review. NOTE: We cannot accept cover letters, plot synopses, or scripts unless they are accompanied by a minimum of 10-20 completed pages (i.e., fully inked and lettered comic book pages).Additional publisher lists:> https://jasonthibault.com/definitive-list-comic-publisher-submission-guidelines/> https://writingtipsoasis.com/best-independent-comic-book-publishers/
>>7885026/mmg/'s very own anon-led anthology: /ic/onographyhttps://discord.gg/QYnFBves7Vhttps://forms.gle/d3a2Cwwd44sJYyqv9(Anthology project is defunct but the discord is alive)Additional community added Resources:Mangafonts: https://mangafonts.carrd.co/Hiro Mashima YT: https://www.youtube.com/@mashimaCh/videosGanmo, a job listing board for manga assistant work: https://ganmo.j-comi.co.jp/postsHow (You) can help /mmg/:> Know about a contest or a publishing opportunity? TAG THE OP and post a link.> Have a new resource? TAG THE OP and link / mention it for inclusion.> Don't be a crab> Have a link / DL for a mentioned resource? TAG THE OP and mention what you're supplying a link for.> SCREENSHOT / PASTEBIN effort posts that help you for posterity.
Do this for your manga
WHAT DO YOU MEAN I HAVE TO DRAW THE WHOLE THING??!?
>>7885023I wish i was a genius like Usamaru Furuya. But im just an above average intelligence guy with great taste. Too smart to be happy and too dumb to create something marketable. Right in the valley of doom.
>>7885034New business idea, we only do the rough sketches and let the reader do the inking, like a model kit.
>>7885035>Boo hoo, I'm too smart but not smart enough!Then learn, dummy.Smart people can do that.
>>7885033My premise is "hot girl gets banged"Thats always interesting
>>7885037I did learn a lot, but im already in my 40s now and running out of time, patience, hope and motivation. Its hard just to sit down and concentrate for 1 hour for me nowadays. If you are hopeless anyway then you just have no motivation. And is a honby which takes a shitton of time, willpower and patience. Im just a mental wreckage, not a genius like the pro mangakas. I have no clue how they cam be so productive. Life is just way too hard
>>7885042All I can say is to start small and work up, friend. You've lived forty, but that means you've got another forty to go.And maybe lay off the drink.
>>7885023Next time anon, just be sure to remember the thread title. Thanks for making the thread anyway though.
>>7885050I knew I forgot somethingAIEEEEE
To create a movie, you must hire actors, and construct expensive movie sets.To create a videogame you must hire programmers, 3d modellers, and audio engineers.But to create a comic, all that is required is a pen and paper. All by himself, one man in his bedroom can create an entire cinematic experience, that can be enjoyed by millions. It is this ratio of effort-investment to entertainment-value-generation that makes comics the most powerful medium ever placed in the hands of artists.In Japan, an artist may submit a one-shot comic, a manga, to any number of open competitions, and have the opportunity to become the next Dragonball, or the next One Piece.But today here in the west, comics artists live in a desert of opportunity. There are no comparable competitions, no avenues to serialisation. If an artist wishes to succeed in comics, he must advertise it himself, print it himself, and distribute it himself. It is a tragedy that an artist may produce the equivelant of the entirety of Dragonball, but be denied any support from publishers.
>>7885054Completely opposite paradigms of businessAmerican publishers want the fame and ownership, and will burn their own money to the ground to keep stinky amateurs outJapanese publishers just want the money, and will ride the coattails of anyone with an idea that sells
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>>7885054There is today, effectively no industry for comics in the west.What publishers that do exist produce nothing but pre-existing IPs and turn away any artists with new ideas. And that is the least of the problems surrounding those companies, of which are well known and do not need to be said again.Comics as a medium in Japan, called manga, but semantics aside are the same medium, represents a billion dollar industry, that supports tens of thousands of artists to bring their visions to life and share them with the world.I dream of a world where we here in the west can enjoy this same success, with our own artists, and our own audiences, and I believe it can be done. But it will not come from the existing paradigms as >>7885061 rightly points out.
>>7885034Just get some assistants
>>7885036:(
>>7885066>just draw the rest of the mushroom cloud
>>7885042It's not age, you sound like you're reaching for excuses. Just draw.
>>7885066Yet Murata gets all the credit
>>7885072I have depression. Sure many people can work great in their 40s but not if you have depression. I can hardly wake up at morning wothout getting into aggressive delirium. I have PTSD and shit. Just no focus and motivation.
>>7885081As shitty as it sounds, when it comes to art it really is a bootstraps situation. The only thing that finally got me to take art seriously is I asked myself if I could live without drawing and since the answer was 'no', I had to do it. You seem to be worried about gains and marketability, you'll probably stay miserable if you only focus on that instead of simply doing it for fun and meaning. You're basically wearing glasses with "everything you do is wrong" written on the inside so you always have to see that no matter what you look at.
>>7885081>I have PTSDFrom which war? You can get help from the VA for this in the US
>>7885085The war of getting genocided in Germany. The Sharia comes any moment here
>>7885086>The war of getting genocided in GermanyDog that was 80 years ago, how are you only 40?
>>7885085Nta but...The War Within.
>>7885087Ww2 factually never ended. The genocide is still in program. When i went to school there were 50 percent foreigners. Nowadays its even worse. Its genocide.
>>7885090It's not genocide because humans are one species.
>>7885102Blue birds hang out with blue birds and disöike the yellow birds. Humans are the same, unless you are brainwashed into thinking some random foreigner gives a shit about you and your country
>>7885090>because humans are one speciesfactually wrong
>>7885109Birds are not human, they are a fan-made spinoff of dinosaurs that were eventually made canon.
>had a decently successful /mmg/ last thread>now this thread where we don't talk about making our comicsWell, I guess some threads have to be nerfed to keep balance.
>>7885125humans are animals retard
