Never Give Up! - About Comics and Manga Artists in America

It's always the timid ones.

EVERY TIME you're on a manga discussion forum on some website, the topic comes up, by some young middle school or high school aged kid, who obviously has good intentions, but is terrible at forseeing how haters will react to their queries online.

"I'm an artist, and I want to draw manga. How do I do this? Will the Japanese fans and pros accept me"

To which often they get a LOT of COWARDLY response from incognito, anonymous Japanese and America OEL American manga hating fans who think they're GOD'S GIFT TO American FANDOM!

"American manga sucks! They yell at you. "And you suck for attempting to draw it!" "Give up now!" "You're an imposter. You'll never draw real manga, because your not Japanese and don't speak Japanese"

And if you hang out with bottom feeder hater LOSERS online like this, they would end up  being right. If you listen to that nasty brand of prejudice, hate, racism, cynicism, and pessimism, you never WILL draw your own manga. Who knows, they might even convince you to blow your brains across your computer screen with a 45., too! I mean, who knows! All things are possible on the internet, right? Well, GIVING UP ON YOUR CAREER sure is!

Why in the WORLD would anyone talk to assholes THAT BIG for advice. It baffles me.

You don't NEED THEIR encouragement or ADVICE! Not to draw what you want.

You need to DRAW SOME Manga already. Draw some thumbnails, then keep tracing, erasing drawing over, and inking them, until you're happy with them. And keep drawing comics of manga until you're happy with your progress, then keep going. BUT if you're comic sucks, you need to realize and admit it if you're honestly not happy with your own work.  And KEEP working on it until your happy with it. 

Repeat this process and  technique until DEAD.

Never consult young teenagers online on whether you should draw manga, or HOW you should draw manga. If they had ANY sense in them and WEREN'T online hypocrites who secretly hate anyone who works up the nerve to draw things they can't (in this case, manga in Japan), of COURSE THEIR GONNA TELL YOU NEGATIVE THINGS like "GIVE UP" and "YOU'LL NEVER MAKE IT". 

Because they GAVE UP ON THEMSELVES AND THEIR CAREERS a long time ago, and they secretly hope EVERYONE ELSE, including you will do just the same. 

Never consult random people on anime websites who never actually attempt drawing comics themselves and seem like they have a serious axe to grind. They will say the most extreme, racist, and hateful anti-American sentiment, all in an elaborate effort to get in your head and keep you from doing your job.

Kindle's Comics Publisher Software is RIGHT THERE, as are Lulu and Create Space. They're WAITING for people with finished comics book and series, including manga artists from America. My manga-comic sold 64 copies there. But do you really think that would have been a possible opportunity for me if I LISTENED to the anti-OEL peanut armchair sports critic gallery, and given up. Why would I want THOSE guys to have the upper hand in the publishing industry, with their snotty culturally elitist attitude. 

I think part of the problem is, a young artists insecurities of working on a developing comic book medium, entirely by his or her self, on their own, in isolation in your parents house or wherever, you get lonely, you get insecure, you  get humbled by what other artists are doing that is vastly superior in artistic design and quality. This isn't about them. The other artists. It's about you. And one of the biggest mistakes you can make is to ask around in comments sections online for advice. You'll get a bunch of negative comments from kids mostly, who have no industry or mentorship experience with anything.

Just remember, you can always take lessons with me on how to write scripts and draw comics if you want to.

Contact me at spindack@gmail.com for details if you're interested in learning comics.