Absolutely not. I also usually don’t work in a long series format so most of my work of the last decade has been anywhere between 100-200+ pages (with the exception of a trilogy I’ve been working on where each book is roughly 160-200 pgs).
One thing I’ve learned is that my early work just… isn’t worth salvaging. I’m better off just improving my entire skill set and doing something new because that’s how my career has managed to function so far; I write and draw something completely new, then I sell more books than the previous ones since I’ve improved on all the points that make my work what it is, and my publishing contracts improve every year.
Redrawing would be a waste of that momentum. It would feel like stalling and a waste of time. I remember seeing a few of my friends redraw their books and it was upsetting to see how not only did it look exhausting to do but the payoff was minimal and in a couple years they looked back and realized “Oh, I’ve improved and this looks like crap to my eyes again” but you can’t just keep going through that cycle and you have to move forward eventually.
When I was really early in trying to pursue comics I was drawing this one that was getting a good reception but so fresh to it that I could see the improvement on every page I did so I would go back and redraw the previous pages immediately and a 60 page story turned into 100+ pages of a lotta the same pages just redrawn only slightly better and I remember looking back at that and seeing how big of a waste of time that was.
But I like to think of the way I’m working as the way I see a lot of manga people work their way up— lots of one shots where you gradually improve your art, storytelling, and voice (for me, literally over a thousand pages of work over the past decade some published some not) and then get to a point where I know I can reliably sell copies of a long running comic consistently and its written and drawn confidently with all the years of honing to back it up. I’m getting closer!
