| What I find strange is this. Marvel comics from the Stan Lee era were created by small groups that included a writer, an illustrator, a colorist and a letterer. The illustrator usually contributed to the study but Stan Lee had a special talent when it came to choosing specific words. (Look at books Jack Kirby did on his own to see this.) A team like that could produce several books a month. Modern Marvel and D.C. comics are produced by a different process. You might see a series of 12 different Superman books that have 12 different creators in a much less economical art style than the Stan Lee era. They go at parallelism in a different way. Japanese manga creators, on the other hand, seem to be amazingly productive. Allegedly books like Sailor Moon, Gintama and Jojo's Bizarre Adventure are written by a single author. The rate at which manga creators work isn't fast enough to support an anime series, a problem which is explained brilliantly in this clip from Gintama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4S9NuI6NKo |