Manga artist

[citation needed] For example, this term would not be applied to a writer creating a story which is then handed over to a manga artist for drawing.

"[6] Traditionally in order to become a manga artist, one would need to send their work into a competition held by various publishing companies.

For example, One-Punch Man started off as a webcomic before Shueisha began publishing a manga remake on Tonari No Young Jump.

[8] While Japan does have a thriving independent comic market for amateur and semi-professional artists, creating manga professionally is rarely a solo effort.

The manga artist typically has a strong influence on dialog even when paired with a writer, as any conversation must fit within the physical constraints imposed by the art.

Takeshi Obata of Death Note, Tetsuo Hara of Fist of the North Star, and Ryoichi Ikegami of Sanctuary are all successful manga artists who have worked with writers through the majority of their careers.

Other manga artists instead form work groups known as "circles" but do not use additional assistants, such as the creative team CLAMP.

[citation needed] Assistants are commonly used for inking, lettering, and shading, though the predominance of black and white art in manga means that unlike in the western comic industry, a studio rarely employs a colorist.

[11] Most manga artists started out as assistants, such as Miwa Ueda to Naoko Takeuchi, Leiji Matsumoto to Osamu Tezuka, Kaoru Shintani to Leiji Matsumoto, and Eiichiro Oda, Hiroyuki Takei and Mikio Itō to Nobuhiro Watsuki, who was himself an assistant to Takeshi Obata.