My name is Jamie Lynn Lano. I’m American, but I worked for the wildly successful mangaka Konomi Takeshi on his Shin Tennis no Oujisama manga for a year and a half. I had a wild ride, learned a lot, and had experiences in pretty much every aspect of making a manga, from character creation and writing good stories, to all of the details that go into a finished piece– research, photography, creating objects and worlds, down to techniques for doing inking and using screentones.