Manga Production Breakdown by Canned Dogs
Humberto Saabedra
Canned Dogs features an in-depth article on the cost breakdown of producing a weekly serialization of a solicited story as explained by manga artist Satou Shuuhou.
This follows up a previous report detailing the author’s plans to transition to a micropayment system for self-publishing after going in-depth about the costs and pay structure associated when producing manga professionally, which has left him sour on the current publishing arrangement common to the industry in Japan.
