A traditional western comic is generally handled by a team of people doing different jobs but solely that job, for example Scott Snyder writes the comic/script and Greg Capullo pencils it. Pencilling is where the comic is initially drawn, the penciller determines how everything looks in the comic as long as it fits in the script. Then the pencilled pages are passed on to inkers and colourers where they will add colours, believe it or not. When all this is done it is sent to the publisher. There are certain exceptions to this rule such as Frank Miller or especially Andy Kubert, they tend to do scripts, pencilling and even colour, Kubert more than most.
An eastern comic is released weekly as opposed to monthly so there aren't many colours if any. Most traditionally it's in black and white. Depending on the success of the manga depends on how it's made the more successful one have a bigger team as opposed to smaller manga which have a much smaller team if a team at all. Looking at manga like Naruto or Bleach they have the team of a well selling book, where there is a main artist Misashi Kishimoto for Naruto and Tite Kubo for Bleach, who decides what's in the book what everything looks like and acts very similarly to Andy Kubert of Frank Miller. After they have decided what is in and how things will look there is specific people just for backgrounds shading and characters. Each person only works on a handful of main characters except for the main artist who does it all, before the others refine it.
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