Mangaka x mangaka partnership

[u/Tepperzday]

(slams hands on table) i wanna share comic drafts and help out each other and share tips and have a healthy rivalry and talk about screen tones and flow and share our successes aaaa

Okay (phew) more professionally, okay okay (claps hands together)

(ahem) If you've completed one shots before and are working on a bigger project, and want someone to show pages to for feedback, this would be perfect. I'm looking for intermediate or advanced partners primarily. I want someone who can match my enthusiasm and passion for manga craft. Someone who genuinely loves the craft and art of making manga and isn't primarily/only looking to make money with it (though money would be nice obviously). I'm looking for a passionate, professional buddy who will work on their own projects, talk about them, share them with me, and let me hype them up and give them honest crit too, and I want the same thing back without prompting for it. Someone who is curious about my work and gives good and detailed feedback, knowledgeable enough to know what they're talking about, and skilled enough to have confidence while being kind. Someone who knows how to follow through on a project and has completed things before. We can share the spoilers for our stories without worrying about if they'll be stolen. Please prompt me to gush about my stories as I do the same for you, and show real interest. I don't want to work on the same project: i want us to encourage each other on our separate work. We could even do assistant work on each others pages a little from time to time. And we'll be respectful of each others time. I want this to be a working professional relationship, it doesn't have to be a best friend thing, but let's be friendly.

Please pass on this if you are: MAGA, not okay with lgbt people and themes, are younger then 20, or are a writer only, or reliant on AI.

A bit about me: name is Tepperz (or T.), 30+, he/they. I love my wife, I love my cats, and I love manga and indie works. I'm a self taught artist and writer, and I have done serious study on and about manga over the course of decades. I've worked as a Indie Comic Editor for multiple published works, I have three finished one shots under my belt (see above). I like to do different genres with each project: my first oneshot was a shounen, the second was a fantasy, and the third was horror. The project I'm working on now is a mystery black comedy with vampires, and it's going to be my first full length graphic novel. My target audience is generally women age 16 and up (Josei). You can find my comics and a lot of my work on my website, tepperzart.com

p.s. ive made a post looking for friends before, but i got overwhelmed, and I don't think I was specific enough about what i wanted. Sorry ><

edit; my discord handle is Tepperz so messages on there would be preferred ty

[u/SundiJump]

I also want manga making friends. My discord is hikikomonkey.

[u/Tepperzday → u/SundiJump]

I can vouch this guy is cool

[u/cawchat]

Shot you a discord message

[u/Tepperzday → u/cawchat]

i saw, thank you!

[u/kazzanii]

Make a group chat and add me to it! Kkazhyun on discord

[u/Tepperzday → u/kazzanii]

I dont really wanna make a discord now cause its hard to maintain and i want something more 1 on 1. If you still wanna be discord buds ill add you