Who are Sweatdrop Studios?

Though springing from humble beginnings (the desire to save a bit of cash when booking a table at a convention), it cannot be denied that Sweatdrop has made its mark on the UK manga scene. But what exactly is Sweatdrop, and who are the people behind the name?

Whilst named a UK manga "studio", Sweatdrop is in fact only a studio in a virtual sense. Its twenty-odd (very odd) members hail from across the UK and their main means of contact is the mighty internet; primarily their thriving forums.

It all began as a platform for the collective to print and sell origninal comics. Five years on, and the members of Sweatdrop have found themselves working in close contact with the likes of Tokyopop, Letraset, Wacom, e-frontier and more; even running their own manga school feature in the hugely successful Neo Magazine; all this whilst maintaining their day jobs!

Though several of its members are persuing succesful illustration careers independently, Sweatdrop remains a collection of dedicated manga fans who use the group to print and distribute their own UK-grown brand of manga.

For a full list of Sweatdrop comics and to access the forums, check out sweatdrop.com

Current members:
Dock (Haden Scott-Baron)
Laura Watton
Subi (Sam brown)
Foxy
Emma Vieceli
Sonia Leong
Keds (Aleister Kelman)
Selina Dean
Carrie Dean
Fehed Said
Bex (Rebecca Burgess)
Sunkitten (Morag Lewis)
Mary Beaird
Yan ryu (Stephanie Drewett)
Marbles (Jacqueline Kwong)
Wandering Muse (Hannah Saunders)
Scorpio (Joanna Zhou)
Yuriko Kihara
Cin (Ken Hoang)
Wyldflowa (Chloe Citrine)
Ben Palmer

You should see a fair few of the above at the London MCM Expo. So, as some of their forum members have started doing recently, why not play Sweatdrop bingo and see if you can catch them all?