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| Kenneth M. Lin to Bobbie Sellers |
| Re: L-E announces release in Japan of Ya |
| 23 Jun 14 09:51:24 |
From: kenmlin@aol.com "Bobbie Sellers" wrote in message news:lo82q6$e0i$1@dont-email.me... > > The pressure of holding down a weekly serial is hard to imagine, > especially if you are writing and drawing all by yourself. Many manga > artists do not live too much past the age of sixty due to karou-shi > (death by overwork). I can only name one (famous) manga artist that > actually retired and his name is Umezu Kazuo, the granddaddy of horror > manga. And he retired because he got Carpal Tunnel and couldn't draw > any longer. I can well imagine. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Amazingly, some can meet the weekly deadline for decades and decades without missing an issue. Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari K en Mae Hashutsujo (こちら葛飾区亀有公園 派出所) is the longest running manga and has been going strong since 1977. http://kochikame.wikia.com/wiki/Manga Last time I checked, it had around 170 volumes. I think not running out of idea is more important than being able to draw rapidly as manga isn't drawn as detailed as American comics. According to Bakuman, you might barely break even after you pay your assistants and a serial isn't profitable until you receive royalty from the collected volumes. Before video games a volume could sell millions but not these days and you'd be very lucky if you break 100,000 copies. --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2) |
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