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I know I'm resurecting this post from the dead but.

I fiund an interesting statistic from my friend who works at Jump Comics (just as a secretary but still)

She says that in Japan alone a person has only a 0.001% chance of being able to become a real "Manga Artist" (That means being able to live off their manga earnings for more then 5 years) thats one in 100,000.
These .001 are your death notes, your narutos, your Monsters and Spirited Aways. Frankly unless you can come up with the originality of Miyazaki, or the sheer dedicative girth of Inu Yasha you're just one of the many thousands.
The rest? Well a lot of them do get published. Some only go as far as self publishing doujinshi's (which just means self published comics, not neccisarily fancomics) but they'd need to work second jobs, they're not rolling in the cash.

anyway. Just some interesting numbers

Kinda makes you depressed ne? definetly not a job you can get into unless you love it.