VoyceMe is a platform designed for the English language audience to create manga and webtoon stories. At Los Angeles Comic Con, CEO and founder Dylan Telano, along with webtoon and manga creators Karrigan Taylor and Brandon Chen, discussed how to get started in the industry during the panel, “How to Break Into the World of Manga, Anime, and Webtoons.”
Webtoons and Anime with VoyceMe
VoyceMe founder and CEO, Dylan Telano, spoke about how he started the platform.
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Dylan said:
“I found there was really no platform for an English language action manga out there. It was very hard for creators to monetize, to interact with their audience, and there’s no platform. So that began my journey throughout college.”
Now, VoyceMe works with hundreds of different creators across a wide variety of genres and art styles. Among those creators are Karrigan Taylor and Brandon Chen. Karrigan is currently working on project called “Sunshine Café,” a slice-of-life, romantic comedy that is published weekly on VoyceMe. Brandon currently has manga and webtoons of differing genres across multiple platforms available for audiences to read.
It can be overwhelming for creators to figure out how to bring their works into the webtoons and manga industry. Each panelist gave their advice for aspiring creators who are looking to begin their journey.
Brandon said:
“If you can condense your story down to a log-line, like a one to two sentence log-line, and that log-line is marketable and really strong and feels very unique, I think that is the most important thing…this is the advice I give to a lot of writers out there, is like, it’s way easier to expand an idea than to condense one.”
Dylan said:
“I think my general advice is never to reinvent the wheel but to look at why the wheel is the wheel and to improve it. So everyone’s stories and ideas that they send to me, I say, very similar to what Brandon was saying, ‘Just put in a pitch and make sure there is industry traction for it right now.’ What’s doing well in this space? What are people liking? Who are you trying to target?”
Karrigan said:
“There’s only, like, four unique stories…there’s only four stories, and everything is a variation of that story. So, don’t try to, like, go [wild] trying to make it so completely different like nothing anyone’s ever seen before because it’s just going to become a mess.”
Follow VoyceMe on social media, such as Twitter and Instagram, and check out their website for a ton of manga and webtoons to read.
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