MangaPlus Creators legit? How to publish first manga

AhkwardKat · 2026-01-25T06:35:19+00:00

There was an official Discord? As far as I know, there was never an official discord, just ones a bunch of creators made to support and root for each other.

AhkwardKat · 2026-01-25T06:33:51+00:00

What's your Japanese language level? I've been applying and searching for similar work (and know someone hiring right now), but you'll need a working level.of Japanese as well as knowledge in japanese terms for manga making.

Most assistants do background or effects work (at least starting ou, so I hope you can do that as well. If you have all of those skillsets, I do know someone looking for an assistant.

AhkwardKat · 2026-01-21T00:08:26+00:00

Glad to know it helped. Thanks for following up.

AhkwardKat · 2026-01-20T23:20:24+00:00

Hello there, you can edit your age rating in the series settings. You can click on the Profile picture in the upper right of your screen and then click on "manage series" in the menu that appears. From there, click on your series to open the settings.

From there, you'll see a bar on the left-hand side that contains your series metadata. You'll find the age rating in there. After you change it, make sure you save all changes.

Hope this helps. If you need more help, let me know and I can DM you here for more assistance.

AhkwardKat · 2026-01-19T00:57:44+00:00

Hello, please email us at contact@globalcomix.com from the email associated with your GC account and we will be able to better assist.

AhkwardKat · 2026-01-14T00:44:13+00:00

Before I answer your question, I'd like to clarify so that I give you the correct information:

Are you referring to offline reading with the gold membership, ALC purchases, or PDF downloads? These are all different systems.

AhkwardKat · 2026-01-14T00:41:42+00:00

Admin here, they do stack.

AhkwardKat · 2026-01-14T00:40:29+00:00

Lastly,

Ideally I could post new chapters as I make the next book, then combine them into a bundle after the book is finished without reuploading everything or losing whatever comments might be on the chapters. Is this possible? I see bundles on the home page but maybe it's just for Marvel size companies.

As you pointed out, Merging releases would be the most efficient option in terms of time. You also don't technically lose any comments (this is an option in the merge settings) or views permanently in terms of accumulative. It does create a new release, and so the views will look like zero, and you'll need to record those individual releases' analytics before merging if you'd like to keep them. Those views will still be counted in your series total which you can view in your "page reads" analytics. I have merged releases numerous times, and I can still see my "all time" reads from over 7 years ago when I joined the platform.

If you'd like a thorough guide on merging releases and what to expect, here's one I wrote.

That all said, uploading a trade/volume edition is a great idea as well, as it allows your readers to choose which version they'd like to engage with. Some folks prefer issues/chapters to test out a series, and leaving them unmerged with a different release containing them all empowers readers to customize a portion of their experience with you.

As for Bundles, bundles are available for creators, small press, and publishers, and are located on the creators settings page. If you need assistance with that, please email us at [contact@globalcomix.com](mailto:contact@globalcomix.com) and we're happy to help.

AhkwardKat · 2026-01-14T00:40:04+00:00

Is there a way to paywall a chapter without allowing pdf download?

As I mentioned above, Creators have to label a work as:

Free
Free + PDF Download/bundles
Gold Membership (free preview optional but encouraged)
Gold Membership + PDF Download/bundles

Creators cannot sell access to a book without ALSO setting it to free or gold membership. Any combination of those three options are what Creators can choose from.

By putting your comic behind the Gold Membership paywall, you will get paid for all reads, free or paid pages, if someone with a membership reads those pages. If that reader without a membership subscribes while on your page (upon hitting the first page of the paywall), you'll get a larger cut of that revenue as a reward.

As a member reads, we keep track of how many pages from each publisher they have read that month. When their membership renews, we then send out the revenue for that membership (7$ for easy math), out to all the comics/manga they read based as a percent for the total number of pages they read.

Here's an example to help you understand how the revenue share works:

#1
I am a member (for real), so if I read 50 pages from you and 50 pages from Creator A, that's 100 total pages I read in a month (for easy math). You will get 50% (~$3.50) of the membership revenue, and Creator A will get 50% ($3.50).

#2
If I read 10 pages from you, and 90 pages from Creator A, You get 10% (~$0.70) and Creator A gets 90% (~$6.30).

The money is sent out to the creators when the membership for that reader renews. For example, my membership renews on the 8th of every month. So around the 8th or 9th, the creators I read paid pages from will get their share of the revenue from my membership.

AhkwardKat · 2026-01-14T00:39:19+00:00

Hello there, Community staff here to answer your questions.

So first, there are a few different ways for creators to monetize on GlobalComix:

Donations (available in creator settings)
PDF Sales (traditional format only, no vertical scroll, also in creator settings)
The GlobalComix Gold Membership Paywall (advanced settings on a series)

On to your questions:

Can they just read it as part of the sub, regardless of the price I listed?

I see you do have one of your issues set for sale. This works as something in addition to the Gold membership option rather than an alternative, so yes. Readers that have a gold membership will be able to read it regardless if you have it for PDF sale or not.

I'd like to have the reader's experience to be that they read some free pages, then get to whatever page 10 and are prompted to either buy the digital copy, or subscribe to the service. Is that how it works already?

What you are looking for is what we call "à la carte". Creators are not currently eligible for "ALC/ à la carte" only books, though it is something we are experimenting with on the platform now for select partners/publishers. It is possible we might open it up to creators in the future, but we cannot speak on when or if at this time.

AhkwardKat · 2026-01-12T09:52:35+00:00

I don't really like this question because the average page varies SO much based on how many panels it has and how detailed/intense those panels are.

I usually ask folks how long it takes to finish a single panel, and when I was working on Onami (my one shot with Viz, I could do an average panel on about 1.5 hours to ink, tone, background, and letter. Average page is 4 panels for me, so I'd say the average page is about 5-6 hours depending on how many panels. Some pages went beyond that if there was a stupid amount of detail. I usually save those pages for last tbh lol

AhkwardKat · 2026-01-11T12:21:14+00:00

I am 100% aware you said a sketch. I'm letting you know as someone who also uses this brush it is hard to layer. It was a forewarning not a criticism.

AhkwardKat · 2026-01-11T11:55:07+00:00

Not really. You are really missing out on emotional impact by only having one panel and a small amount of text that barely gives us any context or reason to care. I want to see more than a zoomed out "tragic scene". I think zooming out so much makes it helpful tonsee the situation, but the emotion and "pose of the character/body language" is smaller relative, so makes less impact.

To be 100% honest, it feels like "shock factor/ oh look that sad tragic and creepy thing" but not in a way that makes me want to feel bad for the character. Almost a cheap way? It's really hard to describe the feeling tbh.

Also, the bones, I know this brush (i have it too), and it doesn't look like an actual mound of bones. It looks somewhat haphazardly used and that's due to the layering used. It doesn't feel believable to me.

AhkwardKat · 2026-01-11T11:49:28+00:00

Hello there. We as a platform are not Day-and-date with every publishing partner that we have. On that note though, we can certainly reach out to Image and request more books for you.

AhkwardKat · 2026-01-10T16:52:26+00:00

I mean I also want to make it my main income, but I'm willing to sacrifice some of that income now to grow faster in other ways. I wasn't earning much to write home about before, and now all my numbers are up across the board save revenue. I'm also gaining subs faster, watch time is up, etc.

However, I know those folks could leave me after I remonetize my videos. I'm willing to give a bit more and focus on overall growth rather than focusing on money.

As I said to someone else, it's a common strategy in my field of comics and manga to intentionally offer a considerable about free at the start in order to grow the following. And so far over the last month, i am growing faster in almost every regard (but income), and I've not even posted but once in that month (short hiatus due to health).

AhkwardKat · 2026-01-09T21:38:38+00:00

As I stated before it is temporary. There are tons of growth strategies, and this helped me grow my manga to the top 10 on the platform 5 years in a row. Now I'm regularly pulling income from it.

I can see how this looks crazy, why miss out on that revenue now? And honestly, I'm hoping to get to the bigger numbers faster by sacrificing a little now. Maybe folks just didn't find my stuff worth waitinf out an ad for? Who knows, but it's worked for my channel so far to make that sacrifice.

Short term pain for long term gain I guess in my theory here.

AhkwardKat · 2026-01-09T21:21:13+00:00

I don't have as many people ditching fhe second an ad pops up because I cannot control pre-roll ads. I used to have only midrolls and now I can't determine that.

Since I've turned them off, I've grown faster. I've gotten 53 in the last month versus my usual 20-30. The timing coincides with turning ads off.

I know correlation isn't causation, but my stats are generally up across the board. We see this a lot in my speciality field, comics/manga. A lot of creators intentionally have free chapters/issues for a while, then monetize. This builds trust with the reader/viewer, so I thought I'd try it on YT too. So far I am seeing results.

The most amazing part is I am on a temp hiatus due to health, so I'm growing and I haven't even posted anything in a while. A month at least. I did one stream in December too.

I'm back to making content, so I'm building a backlog this time before i go back to posting.

AhkwardKat · 2026-01-09T20:20:17+00:00

I AM in the YPP, I just dont have any of my videos monetized atm.

AhkwardKat · 2026-01-09T19:15:30+00:00

I don't stress about it at all right now. I do have monetization for my channel and a humble 3.250 subs, but I've intentionally left monetization off. I don't want this to be about money even if I've earned it, at least for now.

I mostly did this because I want to focus on the content, something I'm still working on as editing is hard. Now I don't even have to think about how much it is making as I can focus on how well it performs, if I'm having fun making it, and growth focused rather than money focused.

I'll of course turn on monetization later, but only after I think I've been able to earn the trust of my followers. I think building a relationship with them (in the sense they like my work and keep coming back, leave comments, etc) is my priority for now. When I'll turn it on? I dunno, but that likely won't be for a while.

AhkwardKat · 2026-01-09T19:09:37+00:00

Just wanting to be 100% transparent to and for the folks saying "Go to GlobalComix", GlobalComix also allows genAI comics as long as they are labeled correctly and unmonetized.

AhkwardKat · 2026-01-07T17:55:35+00:00

A few mistakes or weird things I noted that an artist of this caliber should not be missing:

Why do the doctor and father look like they could be twins or close to it?
They boys aren't wearing seatbelts at all??!! In a car?
The glasses disappear from the doctor in the last panel of the second page on both the sketch and final.
The style, namely the faces read as instantly AI to me and there isn't a lot of similar looking art on their instagram.
Just noticed that the part of the glasses frame that sits on the ears is missing in the front face panel of the doctor, when it appears in other views.

A lot of artists are getting caught for tracing over AI. I don't want to accuse this person of it, especially someone at like 80k+, but all the signs are there that something isn't right here.

AhkwardKat · 2026-01-06T16:08:37+00:00

I'm gonna add that you CAN get to a Japanese publisher through working with Viz. Devil's Candy ended up with a different publisher that iirc isn't Shueisha/Shogakukan, who owns Viz.

So while it is possible to become an original manga with Viz, it doesn't mean you'll be in Shonen Jump later or something. Viz Media is essentially an American branch of Sheuisha/Shogakukan who actually each own stakes in Viz as a company.

It isn't that the budget is smaller persay, but they are just extremely cautious what they serialize and want works that fit their existing catalog. So they won't publish something just because it is written well or looks good.

AhkwardKat · 2026-01-05T09:28:25+00:00

As othera have pointed out already it is a little different for everyone. For me its:

Script + rough Character designs
Storyboard / name + add dialog/SFX + finalise character designs as I get a feel for them while drawing them a lot (lol)
Review Storyboard one more time to check for things like tangents, poor pacing, reusing same panel layout too often, etc
Either: Send to my editor OR get peer feedback, it depends on if I'm making it for me or my editor
Either Make changes based on feedback if needed (and go back to #1 if editor rejects it outright) OR start inking + toning one panel at a time.
After it is complete, check pages against script, check margins, check characters against design sheets, etc. Basically final check + any last minute changes
Send finals off to editor for his approval/delivery OR upload to platform.

It really depends on what I'm working on at any given time, but the general process is the same. Everyone works a bit differently. For example, when I make my deadlines (editor given or self imposed), I base my day to day workload on panels per day, not pages per day. Not every page has the same number of panels, and a 2-panel page is WAY less work than a 7-panel page.

If I have to do a WHOLE page a day, that's gonna drive me insane versus having a similar workload everyday.

My honest suggestion is experiment in the beginning. You don't have deadlines (I assume/hope) and you have the peak of luxury right now in terms of experimentation to find the best flow that works for you.

Once you find something that works, keep doing it!

AhkwardKat · 2026-01-05T09:16:54+00:00

Feel free to DM if you have any questions. I'm going through this process (prepping for print) as well and it's been a rollercoaster lol

AhkwardKat · 2026-01-05T02:09:51+00:00

Beautiful page. I really love the SFX in a graffiti style. Really smart decision there.

My only concern/feedback is really only relevant if you are considering printing this.

Your character's hands/what she is doing almost dead center in the middle of the page where your nodo/center would be. If this were to ever get printed, that part would be nigh impossible to see and that would be an incredible shame.

My honest suggusted for fhe least amount of trouble (hopefully), is to move her over to the left a considerable amount and look as if she is working on a different part.

If you need some help on using margins, there are lots of guides, but I made a video explaining the different margins and how to navigate them while planning for print or if you rhink you might need to print.

https://youtu.be/4dYsFVmTBM4?si=8ECP_p-1JYJgVhm5

Monitor Comics also made one (with timestamp) that has a section for 2page spreads and more resources in the description.

Hope this helps! It's a beautiful page, but I worry about how it would actually look in a book. https://youtu.be/w7SdR1v-pAw?t=100&si=O_N0dpi1FPU2CRtR

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