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Originally Posted by Columbine
I think that's detracting from the OP's question which is; "does anyone on JF make and draw their own Japanese-style comics?" Not me, I'm afraid!
I think the difference with doujinshi and fanfic though is that more successful manga artists were once doujin-ka than successful writers were once fanfic writers. Also more doujin-ka actually sell their work whereas you almost never see printed fanfic available for purchase (usually for good reason!)
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OP let me know if this is getting too far off track. But I think his two questions are interesting, in that he first asks about "diehard manga artists" (and I am not sure what that means) and then for artists who WANT to draw manga. Aren't these two different things? The semantics is interesting to me.
Your point about fanfic is probably true, though.