Manga Studio is a software application for Mac OS X

Mac OS X

Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...

 and Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

 used for the digital creation of comics

Comics

Comics denotes a hybrid medium having verbal side of its vocabulary tightly tied to its visual side in order to convey narrative or information only, the latter in case of non-fiction comics, seeking synergy by using both visual and verbal side in...

. It has been developed since 2001 by the Japanese graphics software company Celsys. It was originally distributed in the West by e frontier

E Frontier

was founded in 1999 and is a major developer and publisher of graphic design and consumer entertainment titles. E Frontier is based in Tokyo, Japan. E Frontier develops Shade 3D, a modeling, rendering and animation software on Windows and Mac OS X....

; since 2007 it is distributed by Smith Micro Graphics

Smith Micro Software

Smith Micro Software, Inc. , founded in 1983 by William W. Smith, Jr., is a diversified developer and marketer of both enterprise and consumer-level software solutions and services...

. There are two versions of the program: the full-featured Manga Studio EX, intended for professional artists (retail priced at US$299.99 as of 2010), and Manga Studio Debut, with a smaller feature set intended for amateurs and less advanced professional users (US$49.99).
Although it has features in common with general-purpose graphics software such as Photoshop, its tool set is focused and optimized for use in creating comics.