GRAPHITE ON PAPER — KAMPALA, UGANDA
MANGAMANZI
Emanzi Joash Kamugisha
I draw manga by hand and build the tools that turn it into finished pages. MANGAMANZI is 115 pages of it — comics, character studies and colour work, drawn one sketchbook page at a time.
01 / MANGAMANZI — 115 PAGES
The zine
Comics, characters and colour. Six chapters of pencil work — early pages, the Nomadican story, character studies, ensemble sheets, and the Sky Rider and Rebel Riders colour sets.
02 / SELECTED PAGES
Loose pages
Sketchbook pages that did not make the zine.
Sky Rider — Improved Sketch
DAY 02 — GRAPHITE, A4 SKETCHBOOK
Second pass on the board rider. Construction lines kept visible on purpose.
Sky Rider — Construction Pass
DAY 01 — GRAPHITE, A4 SKETCHBOOK
The same figure built from cylinders and boxes before any surface detail lands.
Faye-Lyn — Character Studies
2026 — GRAPHITE, A4 SKETCHBOOK
Full body, three expressions. Establishing a silhouette that has to hold across a whole chapter.
Smoke Break
2026 — GRAPHITE, A4 SKETCHBOOK
A portrait study. Round lenses, heavy lashes, loose hair rendered in long strokes.
03 / DAILY PRACTICE
Studies
Dated pages from the practice book. The date in the corner is the point — the work is the streak, not the single drawing.
29 JULY 2026
Random Faces
Twelve heads, varied hair and species, one sitting.
27 JULY 2026
Eyes, Face, Heads
Eye construction, front and side face divisions, head rotation.
04 / THE ARTIST
About
I'm Emanzi Joash Kamugisha. I work as MangaManzi, under the studio name 9LivesK9, out of Uganda.
I write and draw original manga — Nomadican, Null Rosary, Nyaa Rosary, Hell Holocene — and I build the software that gets those pages out of my sketchbook and into print. MangaManzi is a manga page studio; LoRA Factory is its sibling tool for building character reference sets.
The drawing comes first. Everything else is a tool that serves it.
- BASED
- Uganda
- STUDIO
- MangaManzi Publishing
- WORKING ON
- Nomadican, Book One
- GALLERY
- DeviantArt