How does a manga artist sign a contract with a writer?
Question by Lo♥e²O: How does a manga artist sign a contract with a writer?
Say you are an artist doing all the art for an original story. However, you are doing this for no pay because the story hasn’t gotten published yet (and you don’t know if it WILL get published). Everything is uncertain. How would you go about making sure that your work doesn’t get stolen / that you receive half the pay when it does get published, by signing a contract with the writer? Thanks!
Thanks for the advice. However, how is the idea of Americans writing manga “perverse”? I know what you mean, but is creating manga only limited to Japanese people or something?
Ok, in that case just change “manga” to “comic” in my situation. I just wanted to know about the contract thing, and the legalities.
Best answer:
Answer by オーヴァン
Most manga are written and drawn by the same person. There are exceptions, like Death Note or things by Kazuo Koike, but most things have one author. And yes, of course you have to make a contract with a writer, that’s how the world turns, and as far as someone being able to get in league with a REAL manga writer, you’d have to:
1: be better at speaking Japanese than a Japanese person.
2: be better at drawing than most Japanese illustrators.
3: live in Japan.
Otherwise, you’re a comic book artist, working for an American, since Manga are things written for a Japanese audience, and the idea Americans writing “manga” for the American audience is perverse, and distorts the meaning of the word.
You’d need someone to look over your contract, and see both of you sign it. Not like a parent, but a genuine legal representative.
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