If someone paid you an isnane amount of money to make 50 pages per week

[mariusthered]

i would take the money and give them what they ask for , the quality of 50 pages in one week is doubtful.
i almost killed myself making 7 a week.

[AmysGames]

Depends on the quality of the comic. Do you care if it's stick figures?

(But yeah, I can barely do one page a day, haha.)

[Kura]

My pages are not hugely detailed, and I work at a relatively fast speed compared to most webcomic artists, and I would NOT physically be capable of doing 50 pages a week. That would only give me 3 and a half hours to get each page done and that's WITHOUT eating, sleeping, or any kind of break.

It's just not possible.

[Chronitis]

lets say adventure time artstyle

[Chronitis]

I heard somewhere that the creator of Dragon Ball managed to complete an entire chapter in one day. (Somewhere around 20 pages)

[Alyssa]

Good, that's sort of my style...

Monday-Friday, that would be 10 pages a day
For simplicity, I'll say I'd work 9:00-7:00, so that's an hour a page
I could definitely do weak pencils within that time, maybe inking if it's by hand and I simplified the style even more. It wouldn't be quality controlled though, and perspective and stuff will just be made up. No colour. I would also just hand-write the text. If I did the story within that time frame too, I wouldn't schedule much for planning so it'd be more stream of conscious story, and wouldn't be very good.
Only breaks are for bathroom and eating food someone brings me.

I would definitely do it, if the money was truly insane. But I could only for a bit of time. Probably a few months max (up to a semesters worth of art school, because that's consistent with the schedule we kept there anyway...). I would probably be fired before then, though.

[Alyssa]

I defined 'insane' as $1,000,000/week.

But what minimum price would make it worth it to everyone?

Assuming you can do it, would you do it for $5,000/week? $2,000? $1,000? $500?

Consider, the average weekly income in the U.S.A is about $750.
Also consider, you are making comics for a living.

[insomniascrawl]

Sounds better than my 9-5, but they'd have to be cool with just really meaningful stick people drawings; one per page.

[Kura]

The question was not for Akira Toriyama though. It was theoretically to me (and whoever responded to this post), and my answer is based off of what I know from MY physical capabilities and known work output, and thus answering if I could do it, NOT HIM.

So based on me being able it. No, it's not possible.

Also. Akira Toriyama had assistants. Not as many as other mangaka get but he still had them. Meaning he wasn't the only one working on the chapters.

[Alyssa]

Could we have assistants too? If I was getting $1,000,000/week, I'd hire a colourist, an inker, a letter... I'd go all out, and still have at least $9,995,000/week left over for me.

Though they may form a coup if they find out how much I'm earning, and how much I'm paying them...

[miesmud]

What is the worth of money if you wouldn't have the time to spend it
I'd say nope nope nope. Except if I have a team of nice people to work with and get enough spare time to spend my "insane amount of money"

[NanettesClouds]

lets say adventure time artstyle

So, the adventure time style is simple, yes, but that doesn't mean it's fast to do. It's got simple shape language, but those shapes are kept very very on-model (except when they purposely stretch and change, which btw is also difficult to animate well), and it's traditional animation, not flash "puppet" animation. It's a very sophisticated and specific style.

Simple =/= Fast and Easy to do.

Anyways, to answer your question, I think the absolute most that I could do in a week is maybe like, 4-5ish pages, and that's if I quit my job, stopped talking to my friends, family, and girlfriend, only focused on one project, and didn't stop to edit my work. My story isn't worth ruining my life for, and I don't think I would let myself only work on one project, or stop editing my work, so that will never happen.

If I changed my style to be something simpler/rougher then I could do at a faster rate, and started writing a story that didn't take as much thought, then maybe I could get like, 10 per week, but I probably wouldn't be satisfied with what I was putting out.

Mangaka are known for putting out large amounts of work on a daily basis, but they're also known for being overworked, overstressed, depressed or suicidal, and many of them develop arthritis.

[N1ghtm4r3]

simply it would be impossible, the faster one goes the more the quality of the art drops,even with extra hands it wouldn't work, consistency would drop,plus i think anyone would go bananas doing so many pages in such a short time

[indagold]

I got a laid back job already that pays well, why do slave labor for extra cash lol
Give me a month and give me a lot of money and I might agree.

[FlareyWorks]

@Alyssa Well, using the numbers that you put forward, looking at a ten hour day with no actual breaks... I'd be happy with anywhere from 500,000 annually upwards? But heck, if we're naming our price, I'll take a round million a year! That's still a very healthy >300$ an hour ahaha...

But I agree with everyone here. If the job was 50 pages of my personal comic, that I could do - since it's fine to me if some of the pages are just two panels. I could definitely get good enough to smash out ten pages a day, no worries. But a proper, full page, with linear story? Ah... probably not so much.

Although, you've challenged me now... I might just put down the challenge for myself - can I make 50 pages of my comic in a week????

[joannekwan]

If the person doesn't mind all 50 pages being shitty, yeah I can do it. xP

[Shanny8]

Not gonna happen. I know my limits, and there's no way I'd put my body & mental health under that much pressure for 50 pages.

[Moe]

Every page takes me 3-6 hours. so 50 pages is about 150 to 300 hours a week and there is only 168 hours in a week. On average that would give me a 2-3 hour break every 24 hours. If I could take a 20 minute nap every 6 hours(which is essentially the uberman cycle) assuming I could get each page done in 3 hours, that would be possible. I can use the rest of the time to eat food and take a shower.

Now, what is an insane amount exactly? 100 dollars per comic page? That would be about 5,000 a week which comes down to 20k a month. There is also a high possibility of developing RSI from doing this. In light of all of this, I probably wouldn't do it. The only way i'd do this if I was really in need of money or was in some kind of debt that was eating away at me. Currently, I have a decent paying stress free job which gives me a lot of free time(hence why i'm able to answer you) so it's not worth it.

[Ensyis]

Well... if I had a crazy amount of money I'd do the job and just team up with other artist to deliver this Just split this workload between 10 and it should be doable.

[anitacomics]

I couldn't if I tried, I'd definately miss the deadline