6 months to create ONE equipment set!?

[kukurumei]

Just to let you know an manga artist needs at least 10+ chapters before they even start putting them in JUMP or anything else so what you are saying is an bad comparison. So while those 10+ chapters are being printed weekly they are making more chapters while the others are already out....

Actually no, they don't. SJ rarely does that especially, because well... the payment and royalty system is pretty stacked against them. Not to mention editors in certain...publishing highly go on "polls" and even have changes in story and structure on a weekly basis depending on results. (And horror stories when a publisher completely boots the author after a bad volume sales or something)

How they do is simply being good at what they do. The art is almost Warhol in how it's approached, and almost an assembly line in how it's done on schedule.

You have the writer(if different), do a story board like set up. Then the artist draws in a rough draft. Then you have assistants(some full time, some on call, some provided by the publisher) almost like a assembly line color(fill-in) clean up, and stenciled (some of them very expensive).

Most, if not all the background, shading, and various effects are in a way pre-made using rub in or CG stencils/patterns/halftones.

You're a total novice if you try to meet a deadline using hand drawn shading.

Those make what would be a 1 day job into a 1 hour job or even 5 minute job, depend on the standards.

It's much the same at most creative jobs. Whether you're doing "repeats" in Illustrator, montages in Photoshop, or editing in Avid/final cut pro...etc...etc.

There is a whole support business that cater to these, from stock art and footage, to 3rd party plug-in/programs that make those effects in 5 seconds, to customized internal tools that do it specifically for the project.

How long does it take you to build a computer? How long does it take dell?