How To Set Up Page Margins / Trim Marks For PRINTING Physical Comics And Manga

In today's comic-making tutorial, we are going to be discussing comic/manga page FORMATTING. Whether you are a traditional illustrator or a digital artist, these tips are SURE TO HELP YOU! We will be discussing Print Margins, Paper Sizes, File Types, and MUCH MUCH MORE.

By the end of this video, you will know EVERYTHING you need to know about SETTING UP your comic and manga pages! You will walk away with SPECIFIC Page Dimensions and File Sizes so you can FORMAT your graphic novels for Shonen Jump, Marvel Comics, etc.

If you have any questions, please leave a comment down below!

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0:00 Introduction
0:43 Three Types of Margins (Live Area, Trim Area, and Bleed Area)
1:20 Saturday AM Page Dimensions
2:00 What DPI Should My Files Be?
2:43 Manga Page Sizes
3:22 American Manga Page Sizes
4:20 U.S. Standard Comic Book Size
5:30 CMYK V.S. RGB Color Profile
6:18 File Types (JPEG V.S. TIFF V.S. PDF)
7:10 Final Thoughts

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[reubenjvr]

I just want to say thank you you have help me a lot with my manga if it weren't for you I'd probably not have drawn my manga I have watched almost every one of your videos you helped me a lot with character design and mor thanks man

[shreyashmotghare]

How to introduce war in the story and it's consequences

[KrishSingh-wdyn]

Can i edit and resize the panel margins after scanning as I'm drawing it traditionally?

[abbygale]

Super helpful, especially when it came to the coloring profile and file types! Had no idea and everyone else I’ve seen hasn’t talked about those factors

[SaiTurtlesninjaNX]

I wish this video was out back in 2017 when I saw the work on my comic.
I have just finished working on my first 12 issues of my series and now I’m starting to get ready to start advertising and marketing it. In a couple weeks, I’m going to be paying to get my website set up so I can start blogging about it.

[kcbros]

Oh my God thank you for explaining what the typical bleeding /trim is for American comics I had a hard time Finding a source that was crisp and clear on What it is. 🙏

[ztay]

I was trying so hard to read the comic pages you were colouring in. I really want to read it.

[Sammy_]

Great and very helpful video. What's your opinion on KDP for self publishing physical comics? I was trying to see whether their dimensions were in Clip Studio, but I didn't see it; are their dimensions standard American size?

[ChibiGrl]

I like this ALOT!!! ❤️ I’m working on a Silent Manga Audition contest!! This is great to see! Thank you monitor

[NolanRivers]

How does a person even join Saturday AM? I keep asking during the Saturday PUB talk but my question is never answered. I even looked all over the website and can't find information about joining (unless I'm not looking right?) Please anyone respond because I want to publish my manga soon.

[PunkkHazard]

Hello, I'm a writer, I can't draw. I'm currently writing a manga script, but i reached a problem. I don't know how many panels to have on one page. I don't want to fill a page with too many panels, but I don't want to have too few panels in one page. Any advice would be appreciated.

[Sonicsweeti]

I need help on setting up trim marks (for final printing) on a completed file. Can you advise please? I have been stuck for days!

[Rekter]

Let’s go, new Monitor upload!
Also I got a new video idea: Could you maybe make a video on how to do a manga format on WEBTOON? While I do want to post my story on WEBTOON, I don’t want to use the usual format (like the panels being zigzag and all of that). I’ve seen someone use a manga format style on WEBTOON before so I was curious on how to do it. Thanks!

[kealekim]

Hey! Iʻm gonna buy the DELETER paper from your link, but Iʻm a bit confused on the sizing, I want a more manga (or american manga) size, which do you think I should get? if you donʻt reply Iʻll just pick myself no problem :> just found your channel im loving it!!!!

[mamad]

I have an inquiry please am trying to reprint comic book out of stock via printing company and the problem they do require to set margins and bleeding points before uploading files and honestly I have searched the internet to find away to determine the right margins and bleeding points for my comic book the size is 8.5x11 inch and I couldn’t come up with an answer I would appreciate any tips thank you

[dreamworld]

all this time I had dpi set to 72 dpi no wonder my pages looked shit😭😭

[willexcel]

Be mindful of the crossbar "I".

[gxshotgaming]

Hey can u tell how to make manga in clip studio paint pro???

[johansenperch]

Me to I'm working on a project but I don't know were to place my panel's or how to place character in it.

[KaiajuTekken]

Please by my art teacher cause I wanted to try digtal I'm doing a project of my manga and I don't have digtal art my devaint art is kaynizo