@maxterdexter:
I think that I once read that one piece in WSJ was 300$ the page, and that the authors get paid differently, depending on their manga, but it was around 100$ for rookies. It was a while ago and I can't find my sources though.
Bakuman possibly. I know they talked about it in there. I think the contracts are redone every year based on prior sales.
Obviously Togashi has a special arrangement.
@KrogGar:
So a rookie gets around 7000$ per Month if he makes a weeklychapter with around 18 pages? And additional money for the manga sales etc?
Thats a nice salary^^ But yeah, they work also all a lot for that money…(well... maybe Kubo and Togashi not^^).
They have to pay rent on their studios, their own art supplies, and the assistants out of pocket though. So thats a salary for a group of people. They also get roughly 1$ from every volume sold. Plus licensing on animes and merchandise and such.
So yes, making it to Jump and then making it in Jump pay quite well. But we've seen many authors come and go very quickly.
@kouch_lee:
Wait, the mangaka pays for the assistants income?
Yes, the assistants are paid by the author.
@kouch_lee:
And doesn't the magazine cover at least a sensitive or reasonable "cuota"? Like, an assistant? Doing a chapter per week is a hell of a lot of work, and if by doing it, the amount you receive from the magazine - your expenses = loss of money, then that sounds a bit unfair. I know the whole business is based on selling your work and being successful, but just the (massive) amount of work going towards just meeting the deadling of a 18 page chapter/week should get rewarded with a big enough income to be able to live just fine, like a regular job.
Welcome to comics! Where you work 16+ hour days, seven days a week, and still make no money at it. (And if you're paying more assistants than you can afford that's your own problem. ) You HAVE to love the medium, you can't get into it for the money.
Obviously the successful authors do just fine and make millions. But you gotta get there first.
I guess ALL mangas in publication make enough extra money so that's not a real problem, maybe?
The successful ones make plenty.