1. Find a famous person to latch onto and ride the coattails. Bonus points if that person is a relative!
2. Trace your favorite comic panels and use them with little or no alteration. I mean, the originals sell thousands of copies worldwide, right? Maybe you can borrow a little of their success!
3. Take distinctive character designs from popular manga and mash them together, or mask their blatant plagarism with minor alterations. How could Greed from Fullmetal Alchemist look cooler? Give him a facial scar! How could Kenpachi from Bleach look any cooler? Give him white hair and change his clothes! Who is more popular in horror manga than Alucard from Hellsing? L from DeathNote! Put Alucard's mouth on L and you'd have a bloodsucking, crime fighting machine that will fly off of shelves!
4. ????
5. Profit!
So, for those who haven't heard, Gene Simmons' son, Nick Simmons, recently got a comic published in which pretty much every panel is a trace from Tite Kubo's long running hit series Bleach. According to this livejournal community, Kubo has been made aware of the situation, but wether he or VIZ (who own the U.S. distribution rights to Bleach) plan to take legal action is still unknown.
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