How Japanese style Illustration works

PingMag has a greata article on Gez Fry. You might have catched one of his illustrations. His take on American comic, "In America for example they treat comics like artwork. They keep it really clean and collect it, which sounds cool from an art point of view, but the whole industry is completely deteriorating because it takes too much time and effort to create the pics. They can’t ever get a long story like this and have to keep it really simple - therefor the reader’s finally lost interest!... On the one hand it’s a real shame to throw things away, but then you have to make a choice: art for the sake of collecting or art for the sake of the story - which makes the story more fun to read.

First of, they have an assembly line to make the comic: 6 different people each in charge of different aspects of the comic, which then often feels a little disjointed. In Japan there is quite a hierarchic system: one boss having a vision and a style telling all his assistants exactly what to draw… which seems to work better for the story in the end." I guess that's one of the reasons people subscribe to Auteur theory in Films.