CATDOLL: A cartoonist was invited to create a work, but was told that his eligibility had been revoked and he would not receive any payment.

The manga industry in Japan is developing rapidly, with more and more cartoonists, but there are only a few magazines that can serialize their works. For cartoonists, the magazines are in short supply, and it is a very lucky thing for newcomers to be qualified to serialize their works.

Recently, a Japanese cartoonist was invited by a magazine editor to write a new comic series. When he finished the 60-page comic manuscript and handed it over to the publisher, he was told that the new series was cancelled and the royalties would not be paid! The cartoonist also owed a large amount of money because of the sudden incident.

It turned out that when he obtained the qualification to serialize the comic, he paid an assistant to work hard to create this new serialized comic. The publishing house should have paid her 400,000 yen in royalties, but she had to use 200,000 yen to pay the assistant's salary. As a result, when the publishing house turned against her, she was left with a debt of hundreds of thousands of yen.

Because he trusted the editor, he worked hard to create a 60-page comic manuscript, but was deceived by the editor in the end. However, after he complained about this on Twitter, the editor immediately sent him the manuscript fee, probably because he was afraid that the matter would become a big deal.

However, in the Japanese comics industry, the status of cartoonists and editors is sometimes that of editors higher than that of cartoonists. Since editors are responsible for a work, they have the right to comment on the creation of the work and guide cartoonists to draw works with greater commercial value. This kind of thing of deceiving cartoonists is not the first time that has happened. There are too many cases where plans cannot keep up with changes and have to be stopped at any time.