Originally Posted by potatoxpotato
Hi, I'm new and sorry for bringing up this old thread BUT...
From what I've heard, I think mangaka can make a lot more money than typing and the rest say. Taking only from what I've read, here is my math:
So, a mangaka makes about $100 a page once published in a magazine. And there are twenty pages per magazine, and let's say the magazine is monthly. That would be $2000 a month and basically a page a day, which is drawing the storyboard, sketching the page, inking it, then scanning it on the computer for computer graphics, which, for me, takes just a few hours. This, truthfully, is not a lot of money.
Then, let's say, you work on 2 other manga to get more pay. I think someone suggested mangakas do multiple mangas at a time a while before. This would make 3 mangas, $2000 x 3 which is $6000, and just 3 pages a day, which, honestly for me is 15 min storyboard, 30 min sketching, 30 min inking and an hour adding computer graphics-- about 2 hours x 3 is 6 or 7 hours of work, about a normal workday right? And $6000 is a lot of money. Being a mangaka doesn't seem to bad, now, does it?
And that's not even if you hit it big. If you become the Miyazaki, the CLAMP, the Ryukishi07 of the world, you'll be, of course, a millionaire. But I'm sure in the beginning it'll be tough so that's why being a mangaka is hard-- pulling through because in the beginning, you won't be popular.
And for those who don't get published and don't even get $2000 a month, you just have to keep trying, like all authors or artists do at first. Never thinking all hope is lost is the way to go to survive in the mangaka business~
This is just all the things I've gathered from my research, I really would like to be a mangaka one day, and I'm sorry but if my calculations are correct, it makes good money if you try hard. And you might say "That's if you make it"-- It's all about not giving up. More often than not, publishers reject you in the beginning. CLAMP got rejected at first too but look now!
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