As most manga fans are aware, some manga have both an author for the story and an artist for the art, instead of just on individual doing both story and art. My question is does the artist have rights to the work? Say the author of a manga team dies, can just the artist continue without him? I'm curious since the author of a famous manga from years ago, High School of the Dead, is in this situation. The author has unfortunately passed away some time ago, yet the artist is still alive. Would he be allowed to continue the manga if he chose to do so? Also, could he invite another author for support and would they need to pay royalties to the original author's family as well. I'm genuinely curious and hopefully of the possibility of a continuation.
Pretty sure this is a case by case situation. Sometimes the characters are "owned" by the publisher even and not the mangaka. Well, I can't say I really know anything about it really except for a case where a mangaka axed his own story to prevent himself losing some of his rights to it. (negima)
wut, highschool of the dead author died? Thought he just put it in hiatus...... i'be been waiting for a new chapter to come out for ages ;_; RIP author
I'm assuming that when they got contracted by their publisher there was a contract done sorting that out. From a purely logical point, I'd assume that he could continue the manga and any new royalties would be divided between him and a new partner and the old editions would continue their payout to the artist and the deceased authors dependents.
Usually, the writer has creative control. What actually happens depends entirely on the individuals and corps involved, though. Many variations. If either of them are contracted through a corp, the corp almost always has demanded full rights, and can replace the author or artist as they see fit. As of 2005-ish, the majority of creatives were independent / small business owners that could write their own contracts / terms. Now? Too many corps have been buying rights or options to authors works to be sure of any circumstance. HSotD was a recent, B-rank, moderately popular shounen title, so the involvement of a corp is pretty high, in which case you can kiss any further issues goodbye.
HoTD stopped years ago because 1-Heart Disease 2-Putting out an apocalypse story while japan just had a major earthquake is ironic aint it?
I duhno, most of the titles that have an author thats passed away is left unfinished. MM, kaze no stigma, zero no tsukaima, doraemon.. Most of em die because of overwork or cancer.
zero no tsukaima is actually finish well the last volume was written using the authors note by his editor(?)
It really depends on how it's set up with the contracts and depending on how it's setup determines the owner of said work. There have been many cases where a publisher has hired a writer or artist to ghost write a work for them i.e. the vampire diaries, the author makes no royalties from the books or t.v. show.
I wouldn't say just moderately popular. It got real big, especially overseas and its anime. If an anime has bullets passing through a girls breast, using a girls breast to cushion shotgun fire, and an actual Japanese mc grasping a woman's breast tightly from behind... it automatically gets promoted to top ten of all time!