How can you tell when objects and backgrounds are traced photos and when they aren't? Seeing the process of some mangakas on youtube made me realize how many hacks there are in the industry and it felt disappointing. I am even starting to believe the average is actually better in western comics considering the artists here don't have assistants and have to actually learn how to draw backgrounds and stuff that isn't characters. Would people like Moebius and Barry Windsor-Smith be considered that skilled at all if they had assistants and abused photos the same way someone like the Innocent guy, the 3D models tracer Gantz guy or Asano do? Think about it for a moment....