I wouldn't think so. I have some manga paper and it's about 11X14 as suppose to 11X17 in US brands. I've even seen US artist use smaller sizes and as far as paneling, sometimes I've seen mangas with alot more panels and action in than comics and vice versa. It's just a size they're accustom to, as we are to use to our sizes. As suppose to using less panels and splashes I think don't think so. It's just adjusting your layout to fit inside the live area.

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>> I don't do bishies.

~blur-club

If youre good enough you can ofcourse have as many panels as you wish on a page of any size. But I do think in general that holds true that manga pages does have alot more spalsh pages and in general fewer panels per page, not just because of the page size altho its probably a factor, but because of how long the stories usualy are, the writing has to be spaced out abit to fit the art.

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"If you have painted before, you know we dont make misstakes... We have happy accidents... Shhh, It's our secret. Don't tell anybody." -Bob Ross

the smaller the paper, the bigger the panels.

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I want to be the man who can draw so many things, so well and in so many different ways.

The size of the paper and the proportions of the paper are two different concepts. You can draw on as large of a paper and with as many panels as you want on either as long as you have to proportions that you intend for your finished product. If you wanted your finished book to have 5 by 5 square pages you could, and you could draw it on 20 by 20 paper and shrink it down so you have lots of teeny tiny panels or draw it on smaller paper and have only one panel per page. The proportions of the piece of paper you are drawing on mean very little in contrast to what you are trying to accomplish in your story telling. If it makes sense to have a big splash page, throw it in there; if it makes more sense to tell the action in twelve panels, use them. Don't confine your creativity to the proportions of the paper you're drawing on.

tl:dr If you aren't Japanese then it's not manga. Draw however you want.

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*insert witty banter*

I've just begun a new comic book where I use smaller sized paper/ format than American standard. I'm feeling the same way; I want to do big detailed drawings of one or two panels and anything too small just becomes unclear because of my detailed style. I think it's good for reading online though and it ups the page count making a story look meatier on shelves.
I really like your character's bandanna!

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