It's time to create some new manga and send it to some contests.
I did send a contest before to other company. Not Jump magazine. And I was create the "four-frame comic strip" style manga, not story manga.
I didn't got any place in that contest. But that was 1 years ago. It's time to create a new story manga, and try some new contests.
(1) Manga contests & Publishers
There are many manga contests runs by many different manga company.
"Shogakukan","kodansha" , MediaWorks Inc. "kadokawa"etc...
Jump manga-magazine is published by a company names "shueisha".
"shueisha" is a huge publisher company in japan, and manga is only a part of it's business range.
The easiest way to find contest is ... Just pick up your favor manga-mangaine and search for it's contest page.
I'm plan to enter some contests, not only one publishers, but better try many different publishers.
To find a publisher/editor can accept my style.
(1) Publisher company "shueisha".
Actually, I been to see it's building yesterday. (Just for sightseeing & self encouragement...)
They got many huge building with many floors and many office-room. It's locate at center of Tokyo.
Very huge and shainning buildings. Office close at weekend, so not many people around there at weekend.
I only took picture of one building.
umm.. don't really know which building is for manga department..
Anyway, this just for sightseeing & self encouragement...ha ha ha
(2)How to send works.
Most of contests only accept postage by local post-office with original work.
If you create manga by computer, you can send the CD-ROM with paper print out.
Please, only send one work to one contest, don't send one work to muti-contests.
If the work failed on one contest, please create new work to enter new contest, don't reenter same work with other contest. Learn to play by their rules, to gain their trust.
But it's okay to reuse the work if your want to publish by your self.
Some company will return your original work after the contest ended. Some will not.
Note: "shueisha" will not return your original work. So please keep a copied of your work.
(3)Scan your art works
Don't scan it and sent it right away.
The tone will smash and patten crash after scan to PC. So...better scan the line works and apply tone in computer. Or better do the line works in PC.
(4) English market
Sorry, I only knows about Japanese market Information.
Info I wrote here were only limit to Japanese market.
I see some English version manga on market were publish by TOKYOPOP.
So far I didn't see any manga publish by TOKYOPOP in Japan.
So "I guess" maybe TOKYOPOP only do the translation. They are not target in Japan market
I don't know English manga contests. If anyone knows any information , please post a comment.
Thank you for reading this blog, hope this info is useful to you.
PS: Thanks to Hotrealm93 for asking me questions about manga contests.
I post this on my english blog, hope this can help somebody.
Note:
I also plan to attend the COMITIA97 event on 21 Aug. COMITIA97 also got special booths set up for aspiring manga-ka and editors to interview with pro publishers.
I'll take my new works there and interview with editor face to face to get their professional advice.
Please contact Jump's publisher directly for more information on how to send your work for their manga contests.
Please click this link for their English page for manga contests.
http://www.shonenjump.com/e/about/index_en.html
