Manga maker ComiPo!

Manga maker ComiPo!

so now that i bought this ihave to wonder
is there any comercail propperties to this?
can i make profit making comics off this?
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larrynachos Dec 20, 2014 @ 7:01pm 
Can you? Maybe.

Will you? Nope.


WHY WOULD ANYONE BUY A MANGA MADE WITH COMIPO????????
xyzt Dec 21, 2014 @ 9:52pm 
I'm going to lean toward it's possible.
sebastian Dec 23, 2014 @ 10:44am 
It may be legal to make a profit from comics made with this, but since it's not possible, nobody will ever find out whether that's true.
kamikaze9699 Jan 9, 2015 @ 6:54am 
It is possible, but it requires having a fanbase. You got to-
A) make something so catchy that people are willing to spend money on it
B) spend a lot of time modding each scene and page so it doesn't look like a copy-paste job
C) spend a lot of time self-promoting, at least at the beginning
D) release material on a fairly consistent schedule
E) etc.

Regardless of what you do, it'll take work to turn a profit. As for the legality: http://www.comipoforums.com/announces/clearing-up-the-comipo-copyright-license-t23.html

And this one:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=250582465&insideModal=1

tl;dr You can sell comics made using the software. However, you cannot use characters as trademarked mascots for a business, or sell pieces of the software as your own work.
Last edited by kamikaze9699; Jan 9, 2015 @ 6:56am
KrustyTheRusty Jan 10, 2015 @ 8:58pm 
It is indeed possible. Read up on the following wikipedia articles about "Doujinshi"(self-published works), and about "Comiket" (aka comic market) largest self-publisher convention- twice a year in Tokyo, Japan:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%8Djinshi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comiket

It seems quite a lot of famous manga artists publish their own stuff there.

If you haven't seen or read real Japanese manga, in it's original form, many mangas are actually pretty roughly drawn. I bought about 15 issues of Shounen Jump - manga for boys weekly publication. Sometimes you'll see manga series where the drawings are like "what? this doesn't look professional at all - did a 12 year draw this??", and it is printed on poor quality recycled paper - no disrespect intended but think 1-ply no-name brand toilet paper quality but a bit tougher. But Shounen Jump magazine was still very popular - had Bleach, Naruto, To-Loveru etc.

By contrast, Comipo comics actually can look quite polished, even before touching up. True, it would be good to touch it up of course, but I think the biggest challenge is coming up with "something so catchy" as @kamikaze9699 says.
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Date Posted: Dec 20, 2014 @ 6:48pm
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