Learn how to reflect the beautifully diverse world around you in the manga-style characters you draw, guided by the talented team of artists at Saturday AM. Saturday AM is the world’s leading showcase of diverse anime and manga stories. How to Draw Diverse Manga features the comics brand’s most popular artists, who themselves represent racial identities, ethnicities, and cultures from all over the world, as well as diverse gender identities. Our perceptions of the world are shaped by how the media presents it. With this guide, you will be able to tell inclusive stories about heroic, beautiful, strong, intelligent, and courageous heroes from all backgrounds that are relatable to all and represent the true diversity of our world. The reader-friendly, step-by-step presentation, which is accessible even to beginning artists, shares drawing guidance for: Diverse faces, features, and expressions Bodies, proportions, and body positivity Hair, including afros, braids, and waves Developing character design through the language of shape, silhouette, and color schemes Avoiding stereotypes and caricatures Perfect for beginning to intermediate manga and anime artists, character designers, fantasy illustrators, animators, and cartoonists, Saturday AM Presents How to Draw Diverse Manga offers an insider’s point of view and expertise on how to design and draw authentic manga characters that reflect the diverse identities and backgrounds of our world. Find even more inspiration for diverse manga characters in Saturday AM TANKS, which collect Saturday AM’s comics in graphic novel format. The Saturday AM TANKS series include:Apple Black, Clock Striker, Gunhild, Hammer, Henshin!, The Massively Multiplayer World of Ghosts, Oblivion Rouge, Saigami, Soul Beat, Titan King, Underground, and Yellow Stringer.

For beginner to intermediate artists, Saturday AM Presents How to Draw Diverse Manga demonstrates how to conceive and draw original characters that reflect diverse racial, ethnic, and gender identities, featuring work by the artists represented in Saturday AM magazine, a recognized global brand that unites the two biggest trends in Young Adult graphic novels/comic books: diversity and manga.

Do you love to draw manga characters? Do you dream of creating and sharing your own fully realized manga stories but don’t know how to make it happen? Making Manga is for you! Created by the team at Saturday AM, the world’s leading showcase of diverse manga and comics stories, Making Manga gives you step-by-step guidance on everything you need to develop, create, and publish your own dynamic stories. You will find: Tutorials on the essential elements of creating exciting manga, including writing, drawing, page layouts, coloring, and lettering A chapter on publishing that gives you the tools you need to get your work out there Two short manga starter stories inspired by Saturday AM’s hit series Apple Black and Clock Striker that let you test-drive your new creative skills and complete each story with your own ideas and unique point of view QR codes link to exclusive instructional videos. Perfect for beginning to intermediate manga and anime artists, character designers, fantasy illustrators, animators, and cartoonists, Making Manga is the complete insider’s guide to producing your own manga from the ground up. For more instruction on character creation, Saturday AM Presents How to Draw Diverse Manga provides step-by-step tutorials for drawing different heads and facial features, hair types, bodies, and more. The Saturday AM TANKS, which collect Saturday AM’s manga and comics in graphic novel format, provide even more inspiration for manga characters and stories. The Saturday AM TANKS series include:Apple Black, Clock Striker, Gunhild, Hammer, Henshin!, The Massively Multiplayer World of Ghosts, Oblivion Rouge, Saigami, Soul Beat, Titan King, Underground, and Yellow Stringer.

Curated by Saturday AM, this inaugural edition of the Annual series is the ultimate version of the eponymously titled digital magazine.

Curated by Saturday AM, the Saturday AM Annual series is the ultimate version of the eponymously titled digital magazine.
Since 2013, Saturday AM has stood as one of the biggest brands in manga-inspired comics, with hit series like Apple Black, Clock Striker, and The Massively Multiplayer World of Ghosts. Built on the belief that comics and pop culture are only strengthened with the addition of diversity, Saturday AM's mission is to discover, develop, and debut artists from Argentina, Brazil, Indonesia, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, and more! Annual events like #summerofmanga have consistently wowed Saturday AM fans with original short stories from new artists. These short story concepts range from action-oriented superhero tales to heartfelt examinations of identity and orientation.
While Saturday AM Annual harkens back to the days of comic anthologies by offering several stories featuring favorite heroes, the 2024 edition focuses on new voices, taking popular Saturday AM characters from hit series like Apple Black and Clock Striker and pairing them with exceptional new artists, some of today's hottest up-and-coming creators!
Celebrate the next wave of amazing new artists with Saturday AM Annual 2024.

For beginner to intermediate artists, Design Your Own Anime and Manga Characters demonstrates how to conceive and draw original characters for these popular art/entertainment genres.

In Gunhild, Volume 2, the Gods have refused to stop Ragnarok, so Gunhild hatches her own plan, beginning with rescuing Loki. Unfortunately, she’s being hunted by Tyr and his wolf, Fenris!

In Saigami, Volume 2 - Rockport Edition, the Initiation Exam throws an unexpected curveball at young Saigami candidates, including Earth native Ayumi. What will she do when she finds herself all alone again, and her best attempts come up short?

Oblivion Rouge, Volume 1 follows the paths of Oumi and other young Hakkinen soldiers who are on their way to saving their African communities in a dystopian future in which a virus has infected half the population.

In The Massively Multiplayer World of Ghosts, Volume 1, lackluster teenager Nilay Rao receives a device from his long-lost mother that launches him into a video game world where he must battle Ghosts to unlock clues about his mother’s existence.