We Make Manga

We Make Manga is the culmination of student work from the University of South Carolina's Manga/Anime class taught by the award-winning Northrop Davis. Our Tumblr is the opportunity to show the production and learning process that lead to the finalized student manga on our official site.

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At 1pm on April 2nd, 2016, the WeMakeManga group presented at Nashicon! We showed off student work and expressed our goals for the future of both the class and the website. The panel was spearheaded by manga and anime class professor Northrop Davis, author of the acclaimed Manga and Anime Go to Hollywood, and also included student manga creators Austa Joye, Jessica Jordan, Amy Jumper, and Kyle Fuller, all University of South Carolina alumni. In addition to the panel, a table was also hosted where WMM members took commissions and discussed the group with interested con-goers.

Nashicon originally took place in the University’s Russell House, but quickly outgrew the space and was moved into the Columbia Convention Center. Nashicon boasted over 1,000 attendees in 2015 from across the region.

Special thanks to Kyle Fuller for the photos!

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Developmental work from Rogue’s Gallery by Patrick Mcgill including expression charts for characters Mason (The Lancer) and Alice (The Archer).

Mcgill emphasizes that illustrating these expressions helps “to get a sense of the character, how they would react to situations and which expressions they were most comfortable wearing” and that this “is a nice visual way of getting to know your characters.”