The Importance of Dead Simple Goals in Manga
One of the things that the top selling manga have in common is that their lead characters are almost all working towards some overall arching goal. Accomplishing...
Paul Chato’s Rules for Writing Manga?
I recently posted Paul Chato’s rules for writing sitcoms, which is an excellent discussion of the topic by someone who spent years in the trenches producing sitcoms....
September 2, 2022
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Writing Romantic Comedy Light Novels (For Men)
If you want to understand writing Romantic Comedy Light Novels (RCLN) you just need to picture a dance party in your head – a high school gym...
April 21, 2022
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Wally Wood’s 22 Panels that Always Work
American comic book artist legend Wally Wood created a set of 22 panel layouts that he used as his go-to when he needed inspiration while drawing his...
Study the Masters of Manga with Manben!
Today, one of the manga greats, Takao Saito (creator of Golgo-13) sadly passed away, and while reading the outpouring of comments about his death on social media,...
How to Write Manga: Revised Edition
I’ve just released a new revised edition of my How to Write Manga book. If anyone hasn’t had a chance to check it out, it’s a new...
Exploratory Manga – Educational Manga That Take You For A Ride
There are a few less common manga genres that probably deserve more attention than they get, and one of these is the Exploratory Manga. Now, when I...
The Onion Method: Building Better Stories by Talking to Yourself
Reimena Yee’s Onion Method For Outlining Graphic Novels is one of the more interesting approaches I’ve seen to planning a story in a while. At first I...
September 7, 2020
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How to Write Manga
My new book is up! What started as a revision of Write! Shonen Manga turned into an almost complete re-write with lots of new material and approaches....
July 2, 2019
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Write! Shonen Manga is now available on Smashwords for Free!
Last summer, I began revising my book Write! Shonen Manga towards a second edition, however the more I wrote the more it turned from being a second...