Mangaka (漫画家, Mangaka^?) is the Japanese word for a comic artist. Outside of Japan, manga usually refers to a Japanese comic book and mangaka refers to the author of the manga, who is usually Japanese. A comic book artist at work. ... maNga is a popular Turkish nu metal/rapcore band. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ...

Meaning

The word can be broken down into two parts: Manga and ka maNga is a popular Turkish nu metal/rapcore band. ...

The Manga corresponds to the medium of art the artist uses: comics, or Japanese comics, depending on if you use the term inside or outside of Japan. maNga is a popular Turkish nu metal/rapcore band. ... Comics (or, less commonly, sequential art) is a form of visual art consisting of images which are commonly combined with text, often in the form of speech balloons or image captions. ...

The -ka (家) suffix implies some degree of expertise and a traditional kind of authorship. For example, this term would not apply to a writer creating a story which is then handed over to a manga artist for drawing. The Japanese term for such a writer of comics is gensaku-sha. This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... A Japanese word meaning someone who writes the script of a manga and then hands it over to a manga-ka, an artist, to actually draw. ...

Assistants

Many mangaka have assistants who help them with their artwork. The duties of assistants vary widely; some mangaka only sketch out the very basics of their manga, and have their numerous assistants fill in all of the details, while others use assistants only for specific things (Go Nagai, for instance, at one time employed an assistant specifically to draw helicopters and other military vehicles ^[1]). Other mangaka have no assistants at all, and prefer to do everything themselves. Most often, assistants are responsible for the backgrounds and screentones in manga, while the mangaka him/herself draws and inks the main characters. While they are often employed to help with art, assistants almost never help the mangaka with the plot of their manga, beyond being a "sounding board" for ideas. Go Nagai , born September 6, 1945) is a Japanese mangaka and an important innovator of several genres within anime and manga. ... Screentone is a generic name for a technical drawing technique for applying various textures to surfaces from a specially preprinted sheet. ...

Most full-fledged mangaka started out as assistants, although there are many assistants who are happy staying out of the spotlight, and spend their entire careers as assistants.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• List of mangaka

Romanized names are written in Western order (given names before family names), whereas kanji names are written in Japanese order (family names before given names). ...

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