Hi, everyone. I've been making this manga for far too long. Now that the first 2 chapters are released, I wanted to branch out and contact publishers. But before I do, I wanted to gauge your interested.

• Does it feel like it should be a digital-only release, or should I send it to publishers?

• Is the story/art gripping enough?

• Is there any advice you can give me?

I have zero experience with publishing stories, and I've been hiding under a rock chipping away at this thing and now that it's out I don't know how to make more people read it. Do you think it could work as a physically released manga? If so, any advice on how to market/publish it?

I'd love to hear any feedback on the intro scene to my story. I've tried to incorporate some of the feedback received here in the past already. Anything that comes to mind is highly appreciated! Thank you all in advance

Okay so I'm a self published author looking for serious feedback on my debut chapter. Feel free to be as honest and brutal as you need to be so long as the criticism is constructive! I really appreciate you taking the time to look at my work 🙏

Apologies for the crappy photos. I did this in a weekend for an ecological writing class a few years ago. I'm working on a longer comic project right now but I'm wondering if I should try and go back and spend more time with this to work on refining in general. (For ex. I'm aware that the lettering is catastrophic, panels are wonky, and obvs it's a Sharpie comic). What else does it need?

Signal Lost is a story about Alex and Andrey. In my original concept, Alex is a young Asian man in his early 20s.

From the start, I wanted to draw Alex in a Japanese anime style, because I love anime — but I also love the European-American comic book style of drawing big muscular men, so I drew Andrey in more of a Western comic style.

"Wouldn't it be fun to mix art styles in one comic?" I thought.

Turns out, that was a hole I dug myself into so deep that I don't know how to climb out of it.

Again, in the concept, Alex is in his early 20s and Andrey is in his late 20s — their age difference is less than 10 years. But once I posted the first pages, quite a few readers assumed Alex was in high school and accused Andrey of being a groomer.

On my social media, mainly Instagram, my followers haven't really criticized me much. Most people enjoyed the first pages, and only a handful (maybe 5–10% of the comments) were worried about the age gap.

On Reddit, though, the comments were very divided. I was overwhelmed with negative feedback about the characters' age gap. A few extreme comments even went as far as calling me a pedo. Judging by the numbers, about half the Reddit comments were concerned about it.

Just to reassure you: don't worry, I read the comments, but the final decision is still mine. That said, I do want to ask you this question, just to be sure:

Do you think I should change Alex's look?

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I'm still experimenting with sequential art, so if you have any constructive criticism please feel free to share!

Which ones work, and which ones don't? Which ones confused you, or needed a second look to get? Any other comments?

It’s only taken me forever and a day to get these pages done. Let me know what you think. Thank you.

More drawings and comics can be found at www.instagram.com/natam_tonkul/

We open with Fruit Hat jumping into a hole containing a vertical metropolis. This esoteric little story won the Pigma Manga Contest Grand Prize - the theme of the contest was 'Manga World'.

Since the theme had the word 'manga', I took the opportunity to make the characters who live in the vertical world link back to existing manga characters - not directly, though, careful scrutiny of all the Easter Eggs hidden in the characters themselves and the scenes may reveal their 'secret identities'.

I really enjoyed packing detail into every panel - there's everything from airplane innards to temple architecture in there. Feedback (and guesses about the 'secret identities' of the characters) would be greatly appreciated!

Comic with bonus material here

Trailer for this comic here

Enjoy reading and thank you!

[Just say the word if anyone would like the English transcript, by the way.]

Edit: English translation!

Some notes first: This story was originally completely silent. Only in the final drafts did dialogue creep in. It's still pretty sparse on dialogue in places, making it look a bit odd as a transcript.

Most of the characters have fairly literal names: Fruit Hat, Shark, Cyclops, etc... The ones with distinct names are Fonn (the dog who rings the bell on the third page), Souci (the bird-like character who appears on the fifth page), and Weasel (the raven. Very confusingly named Weasel. Look closely and you'll see his T-shirt sometimes has 'Weasel' written on it).

Title: In This World

p = page, p3 = page 3

p3:

Handwritten sign taped on wall: Doorbell broken, please ring brass bell instead.

Weasel: Welcome.

p4:

Weasel: Lotus-root juice. (hands Fonn a glass)

Fonn: Somebody... fell past.. just now...

Weasel: Ah!!

Weasel: Get me the radio right now!!

Radio being tuned: fizzle za za...carrots have been proven...crrck za za...red seaweed....crzck za...

(We cut to the crooner who speaks in English. More about him later.)

Weasel: CHA!! Made it in time!! ['Cha' is simply an onomatopoeic exclamation in Thai]

Weasel to Shark: Can't you remind me that the program is about to start?

Shark: Sorry, sir...

Weasel to Fonn: This is a good song, you know!

Fonn: Uh.. Fall? Autumn? Falling? Somebody falling past outside...?

Fonn, continued: ... just now?... is falling down, my fair lady?

Weasel: Ah right, there was that thing too... yes, yes...

p5:

Souci: Get ready...set...

p6:

White Dog (cyborg dog): A Famicom!

Cyclops: Excuse me, please take your shoes off...

White Dog: This is part of my leg. [See?]

p7: (We meet the two most talkative characters in the story. They're playing Monopoly.)

White Cat: Shoot.

Black Dog: Heheheh...so you've chosen to come rest your tired bones at my Mayfair.

White Cat: Can I use Shopee 50% off? [Shopee is basically Asian eBay]

Black Dog: In your dreams.

Ringtone cutting in: Ting ting tang tang, ting ting tang tang (continues over the next few panels)

Black Dog: Ah.

White Cat: (internally) Ah-HA!

White Cat: (internally) Grand Theft Monopoly!!

(ringtone cuts)

Black Dog: Speaking.

White Cat: (internally) Die, die, die! Eat hotels like the dog you are!

Black Dog: (on the phone) Is that so. Hm. Okay.

White Cat: (internally) Mayfair is mine nowwwwww!!!

Black Dog: There's a shooting star.

White Cat: Is that so, honey ~~ (trying to cover up the Monopoly massacre badly)

Black Dog: "Honey"? That's creepy - hang on, you -

Black Dog: (continued) - what are you doing with the Monopoly game?

White Cat: Focus on your netting!

Black Dog: What's with that heap of money and hotels, huh?

White Cat: Shoo! Focus on your work!

Note: White Cat doesn't actually say 'honey', he says 'is that so' and adds the suffix 'ja'. Typically in Thai you add suffixes such as 'krub' to the end of sentences to make them more polite, the suffix 'ja' is kind of cutesy or (sometimes) vaguely flirtatious. 'Honey' was the closest thing I could come up with, English doesn't really have a levels-of-politeness suffix system...

p8:

White (cyborg) Dog: (playing a Famicom racing game) Wow wow wow!

Black Dog: Is it near yet?

White Cat: I'll hang on to your tail for you. Safety.

Black Dog: I can't see a dagbone thing.

White Dog: (playing the racing game) I'm overtaking! Hahahahahaha!

Souci: (trying to ignore the racers) I should check in on those guys.

Phone ringtone again: Ting ting tang tang -

White Cat: (bobbing head) Ting tang - (ting-tang means 'make-believe')

Black Dog: Bah, not again! (Fruit Hat falls past)

Black Dog: Oh.

White Cat: Never mind. Let it be, let it be...

(ringtone continuing throughout)

Black Dog: Alright, I'm coming, I'm coming... I really should change the ringtone.

White Cat: Hey, I'm winning the Monopoly game fair and square, remember?

Black Dog: WHAT?

The last two pages are silent, with the exception of small sound effects in the last panel: (za, za, kruu - onomatopoeia of leaves sifting in the wind and birds cooing.)

The cat and dog do more yammering than everyone else put together... Fruit Hat doesn't say a word.

And who's the realistically drawn singer? On the preceding page, the left wall has a poster with a picture of him (Weasel is presumably a fan) and if you look carefully, the writing on the poster says 'The Remains of Tom Lehrer'.

Tom Lehrer was a mathematician and satirical songwriter and what he's saying on the radio Weasel tunes in to is the intro to 'The Masochism Tango (1959)'.

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Finally, thank you for reading and all the positive comments!

Hello!
I've been creating this comic called No Space For Us since 2020 and I would like to know your opinion on main characters. The series itself does not have much characters as it focus on the drama of the 2 mains.
They're aliens.
Also some panels to analize!

Thank you for your time!

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I drew two female characters who are cousins, so they naturally share the same skin tone and hair color — but I still wanted them to have noticeably different facial features.

Hey everyone!

As the title says, I made a guide about everything to do with making comics. It's currently a honking 58 pages long and it covers everything from coming up with an idea to page layout to printing and distribution.

The guide is called "Taking a Comic From Start to Finish" and you can get it for free right here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uU88rvvuLglSilok2pGVzNJ-GkUYjvrcpoyvYPAz0xE/

Originally the guide was just something for me to use as a reference but I decided to expand on it and thought it would be nice to share with all of you.

The guide is ever growing so I'd love to hear your thoughts. Feel free to comment here or directly on the doc. Please also let me know which topics you'd be interested in me expanding upon or if you have new ideas you'd want included in the guide.

Thanks and I hope you enjoy!

Hello! This is my first time posting on this subreddit! And this is one of the few comics I actually get to finish. It's not a chapter, but just an introduction to it.

Not asking to reply to all my questions! Just the ones you guys feel like replying. Any feedback is welcome and appreciated!

Context: The white character is an angel who can get inside dreams but cannot get dreams on his own nor can sleep. The girl is a human who wanted a friend and the angel came. Their interactions when they first meet are kind of awkward since she's shy and doesn't have friends and the angel doesn't know a lot about society rules or what's awkward. The angel gets inside the girl's dream.

Would love to receive feedback about:

Storytelling:

1-Is the plot clear? Specially in the last part, I need it to be clear that the angel gets inside her dream.

2-Could the plot be told/showed in a more interesting or efficient sequence/order? I felt it was too linear or standard

3-About the pacing, is the intro too long? I'm not familiar with intros and don't know how to do them. If so, would appreciate comments on how to make it more efficient!

Paneling:

4-Could some panels/pages be cut or mixed together for better storytelling? I come from webtoon where it's large panel after large panel and I have trouble choosing panel sizes because I know they influence the pacing.

5-Did some panels break immersion? Perhaps they ended a scene too abruptly, etc.

Overall (not really feedback, just collecting first impressions):

6-After reading the comic, what did you get of the character's personalities? (Ex: I think the angel is kind of nice/weird, the girl is shy/insecure)

Sorry if I'm asking for a lot, u can ignore many, any feedback or reply helps me! Thank you very much.

So in these images, you will find some examples for my pencils, inks, and colours. You can read the manga here!

https://mangaplus-creators.jp/episodes/5u2609010227000027285905

VIZ Originals, although they did reject this submission, they said they enjoyed reading it, so I hope you do too!

To give some context, this is the story: Ryuto is a wandering hero with strength beyond imagination and no idea where he came from. In a world torn apart by the war between humans and Azalians, he fights to protect those in danger, refusing to kill even his most ruthless enemies. But Ryuto isn't human. He isn't Azalian. So what is he?

The idea of a "wandering, lone hero" was the base of this idea, along with inspiration from popular manga such as Trigun.

My teacher, Toshio Maeda has complained a lot about my inking, mostly because I don't use the traditional tools such as G-pens, I find it much more efficient to use a Tombow Fudenosuke, and Sakura Microns.

Story-wise, I was given a very sharp page limit, so there is a lot that had to be cut, or compressed, resulting in this pilot chapter to be much more simple, and borderline generic than I wanted it to be. Since RED CAPE VOYAGER has been quite popular so far, I'm going to start working on a full story soon, 10, 20 page chapters that will be the full story.

Anyway, I hope you guys like it!