From: kenmlin@aol.com   
      
   "Bobbie Sellers"  wrote in message news:m6jacl$9l6$1@dont-email.me...   
      
   On 12/13/2014 09:58 PM, Kenneth M. Lin wrote:   
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   > "Bobbie Sellers"  wrote in message news:m6cvpo$4td$1@dont-email.me...   
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   > JITSUROKU - ADACHI MITSURU MONOGATARI Manga   
   > 実録 あだち充物語   
   > Released:     Author(s):     Artist(s):     Genre(s):   
   > 1982     Adachi Tsutomu     Adachi Tsutomu     Comedy   
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   > This is the tale of how Adachi Mitsuru went from being an assistant   
   > artist on a   
   > weekly manga to the superstar manga-ka we know him to be today. But it’s   
   > told (and written by) Mitsuru’s older brother Tsutomu, who was also an   
   > assistant   
   > artist early on in their careers…   
   >      That paragraph is borrowed from MangaFox.   
   >      Google is your pal for finding this series.   
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   >      Well only 2 chapters on the net but it sure is amusing at least to   
   > my simple   
   > mind.  Sort of repetitive, though.   
   >      This is at the opposite end of the spectrum from "A Drifting Life".   
   >   
   >      bliss   
   >   
   >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>   
   >   
   > This came out in 1982?  Then it was done quite early in his career   
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   > Japan has pretty good apprenticeship program for aspiring manga artists   
   > and almost every established artist has assisted while working on their   
   > debut work on the side.  Believe it or not, many chose to assist all   
   > their life because they lack story ideas or would much rather have   
   > steady paycheck.   
      
   Oh I believe it.  Look at Hato in Genshiken who is a marvelous   
   artist but lacks the ability at this point in his development(in the   
   story) to tell a story.  Adachi himself seems to reuse the same basic   
   plot which is very good a couple of times around.   
      
   bliss   
      
   >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>   
      
   Adachi may be able to get away with recycling formulas because his books are   
   intended for certain age group and while some people outgrow his books, new   
   readers arrive every year.   
      
   There are several famous artists that depend on someone to write the   
   stories.  For example, the guy that did Fist of North Star.  Obata Takeshi   
   from Death Note and Bakuman is another example.  I do not know how the   
   royalty is split between the writer and the artist because writing is a much   
   quicker process and less labor intensive if you are good at it.   
      
   If you write your own story, you have a day to plot it out (they call it   
   "name" in Japan) and rest of the week to do the layout, pencil, and ink if   
   you are on a weekly deadline.  Granted, if you have assistants drawing all   
   the backgrounds for you then it's possible but you'd be in a perpetual   
   nightmare if you are not proficient about coming up with ideas.  And I have   
   no ideas how anyone can juggle two weekly serials.   
      
   These days the publishers are more tolerant to the meticulous creators and   
   many titles are serialized irregularly and may not accrue enough page in a   
   year to be collected into a volume.  In contrast, if you are steadily doing   
   twenty pages a week, you could churn out four or five volumes of collected   
   work each year.  That's how some titles manage to keep going strong after   
   volume 100.   
      
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