Sweatdrop Studios
The UK's first home-based independent Original English-language manga publisher and distributor, Sweatdrop Studios publish and distribute manga produced solely by creators living within the UK.
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Their comics are available for purchase at many UK anime conventions and through their own website where payment can be made via PayPal or credit card.
The majority of works published by Sweatdrop are amateur ventures; the artists/authors do not make a living through profits, and produce and sell their works in their own time.
There are, however, a few exceptions to this, such as Draw Manga a professional book published under the Sweatdrop Studios name and also 'Manga Life', a series of self help books for Infinite Ideas. Though not registered with Companies house, Sweatdrop Studios is unique in the UK manga industry as an art collaborative.
Sweatdrop is frequently mentioned in the UK's only anime, manga and Asian cinema magazine, Neo, in which members regularly produce tutorials. Members have also featured in other magazines, Hayden Scott-Baron was featured in Advanced Photoshop magazine. Joanna Zhou & Emma Vieceli have been featured artists in ImagineFX.
The group is known for running workshops and panels at numerous events.
The Studio was originally founded in 2001, by a co-operative of four independent UK manga artists, who, until then, had been self-publishing at a small-press level individually.
These artists were Hayden Scott-Baron aka. Dock, Laura Watton, Sam Brown aka. Subi and Foxy, who had met via their attendance at UK manga conventions. Fehed Said, Selina Dean and Aleister Kelman have also been members since the Studio formed, although they were not present at the conventions.
The studio specialises in the insipid, girly, amateur style 'manga' that has been so popular in recent years.
Members of the Studio participate in its activities to varying degrees, depending on their personal circumstances. These activities include: publishing comics, participating in writing manga drawing tutorials in magazines, attending conventions and events, running workshops and panels and administration of their website (www.sweatdrop.com) and its forum.
The group run a monthly manga tutorial section in Neo magazine, featuring several of their members.
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