Toriyama's working schedule

[dougo13]

Comic Book artist in the US put into as many hours of work and get very little sleep too.

I don't know much about small artist but the ones who work on the popular titles such as Batman have a month between each issue and don't have to write it while Oda for example has to draw and write an issue every week so artists who work for Dc&Marvel don't have it as hard as him.

You never read stuff from the 60s and 70s from artists like Jack Kirby? Prodigious amount of material, all plotted out in his head before putting pencil to paper. He might have been working on several titles at once as well as things like storyboarding or character design for cartoons, advertising pieces, etc. I always wonder how he got time to live. Tezuka was much the same, a total workaholic. Thousands and thousands of pages...

[jjgp1112]

Didn't Toriyama once say that he actually used to relax for four days of the week and then cram EVERYTHING into the final three days before the deadline? Or was that another author?

[Lord Beerus]

Didn't Toriyama once say that he actually used to relax for four days of the week and then cram EVERYTHING into the final three days before the deadline? Or was that another author?

I think that was Toriyama. I remember reading one of his interviews, and I can't remember which one, where he stated he spent most of his time in the week when he was mangaka designing scale models, something he loves doing, and then spent the last few days writing and drawing Dragon Ball.

[ABED]

Comic Book artist in the US put into as many hours of work and get very little sleep too.

I don't know much about small artist but the ones who work on the popular titles such as Batman have a month between each issue and don't have to write it while Oda for example has to draw and write an issue every week so artists who work for Dc&Marvel don't have it as hard as him.

You never read stuff from the 60s and 70s from artists like Jack Kirby? Prodigious amount of material, all plotted out in his head before putting pencil to paper. He might have been working on several titles at once as well as things like storyboarding or character design for cartoons, advertising pieces, etc. I always wonder how he got time to live. Tezuka was much the same, a total workaholic. Thousands and thousands of pages...

When you want something done, ask a busy person to do it.

[FortuneSSJ]

Say what you will about Togashi's hiatuses for Hunter x Hunter, he at least was able stand up to his publishers after he almost ruined his health working on Yu Yu Hakusho.

And for the first time ever, he failed the entire WSJ year (December 2014 - November 2015).
Always breaking records. DC can't come fast enough.