Tutorial: What you need to publish your own manga on Amazon Kindle: Manuscript formatting: PDF Doc Manuscript

·         PDF Document (Manuscript) is the format your digital comic book manuscript needs to be in, with JPEG or PDF pages in sequential order within the document, so it's like an e-book on your computer

·         Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft word: This is the software you will use to edit your comic book, manga, indie comic, superhero, cartoon, or graphic novel manuscript.

·         PDF Doc Bulk Compiling, In Adobe Acrobat, click "select a task", click combine files into PDF. highlight J-PEG and PDF Docs and place them in the "Combine Files into PDF option", either folders or files

·         Cover JPEG, Illustration with the title and author's name on it in fancy font style, with a high DPI rate (digital pixels per inch)

·         Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat: You do not upload one page at a time. You must have the PDF Document pre organized and read to be published, all pages must be the same size. Adjusting page size is done through converting the document back and forth between Word Document Format (where you determine page size), and PDF Document format

·         After you've formatted your files and docs, you need to upload your PDF files into the upload manuscript portion of your Kindle dashboard, or the auto comic book maker software

A lot of artists who want to be self publishers often get frustrated when they can't figure out how to format their graphic novel or digital comics the right way. Drawing is important, an important step in the Cartoonist DIY process, but so is formatting the manuscript for your work!