/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

I really want to see a resurgence of serialized comics in the west, but I just don't see it happening
>eurocomics
rarely get updated and most creators certainly can't live off of them, even guys like Joel Jurion have failed Kickstarters from lack of interest

I went to Tokyo recently, and just walking through the bookstores was a shock. In a 7-floor shop the manga was right at the storefront, baskets and shelves of them with tons of promo material and lots teens looking around.
They had a whole floor dedicated to manga, with a massive variety of series I've never even heard of and tons of new publications.

Why can't we have something like that? A variety of genres, books that appeal to girls, books that old guys like. Fucking hell, they've got something really good

>>3866818
idk who you've been looking at but as far as I know most manga artists colour their own stuff.
Hiring an artists who can do good colors is expensive, and the guy hiring probably doesn't have much money himself.
>but assistants
don't even need to be actual artists, most of the time someone with photoshop knowledge (to scan, clean, center, typeset, sometimes even apply tones) is plenty
>>3866937
would've been funnier with 3 panels and without the text in panel 1, but it's silly enough to get a giggle