We found 48 YouTube channels similar to John Brinkley
High search overlap on comic creation topics (100% search), and very high content similarity (75%), indicating both target aspiring comic artists with tutorials on finishing pages and workflow, making them strongly aligned with John Brinkley’s audience despite Proko’s broader art focus.
Substantial search overlap for comic creation and finishing techniques (45%), with strong content alignment on time management for comics (85%), suggesting a shared audience of comics-focused creators who value efficient workflows, though Parker emphasizes production speed more.
Moderate search alignment on pacing and finishing comics (24%), paired with very high content similarity (83%), indicating they cover similar comic pacing and page finishing topics for creators similar to Brinkley.
Good search overlap for comic creation and finishing techniques (38%), with solid content overlap (73%), placing them in the same niche of tutorial-style guidance on page workflow as Brinkley.
Significant content similarity (80%) around pacing, panel composition, and storyboarding, but lower search overlap (24%), meaning they attract a similar audience around storytelling for comics, albeit with a distinct manga-focused framing.
Notable search overlap on comic creation and finishing techniques (29%), combined with strong content similarity (75%), indicating a shared focus on project planning and stepwise comic production.
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| Rank | Relevance | Channel | Similarity | Subscribers | SERP | Appearances |
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| #7 | 56% | Bad Ink Studios ▶ | 80% | 422K | 21% | 11 |
| #8 | 55% | Serkworks Art Labs | 89% | 26.7K | 4% | 5 |
| #9 | 55% | MONITOR COMICS | 79% | 88.9K | 19% | 9 |
| #10 | 54% | Walter Ostlie | 83% | 40.9K | 10% | 6 |
| #11 | 53% | The Drawing Codex | 82% | 171K | 10% | 6 |
| #12 | 53% | DREWSCAPE | 78% | 29.3K | 15% | 8 |
| #13 | 51% | Gerimi | 80% | 8.7K | 9% | 4 |
| #14 | 51% | Shannon Newby | 81% | 11.2K | 6% | 4 |
| #15 | 51% | Pencils & Stories | 82% | 1.8K | 4% | 3 |
| #16 | 51% | TheStarfishface ▶ | 77% | 224K | 11% | 9 |
| #17 | 50% | Comics People | 79% | 3.9K | 5% | 1 |
| #18 | 49% | Toniko Pantoja ▶ | 77% | 375K | 9% | 4 |
| #19 | 49% | Writing Comics | 78% | 4.4K | 6% | 3 |
| #20 | 48% | Tim Runia | 76% | 116K | 6% | 3 |
| #21 | 48% | Draw like a Sir | 72% | 2.0M | 13% | 10 |
| #22 | 48% | pikat | 75% | 882K | 8% | 3 |
| #23 | 48% | Anime Charlie | 77% | 120K | 5% | 1 |
| #24 | 48% | Puddle ✪ | 76% | 24.7K | 6% | 3 |
| #25 | 48% | Cosmic Spectrum Art | 73% | 221K | 9% | 5 |
| #26 | 48% | BaM Animation | 75% | 730K | 6% | 3 |
| #27 | 47% | Marc Brunet | 76% | 1.8M | 5% | 4 |
| #28 | 47% | Plot Devices | 73% | 6.2K | 7% | 1 |
| #29 | 46% | DanielMtal | 74% | 20.6K | 5% | 3 |
| #30 | 46% | The Art Path | 72% | 2.3K | 7% | 3 |
| #31 | 46% | Max McCoy | 72% | 5.8K | 7% | 1 |
| #32 | 46% | Kuzillon ▶ | 73% | 108K | 4% | 2 |
| #33 | 46% | Map Crow | 73% | 103K | 5% | 1 |
| #34 | 46% | Jeremiah Birnbaum - Movie Mentor | 71% | 4.9K | 7% | 1 |
| #35 | 46% | Ryan Kirby | 73% | 1.7K | 5% | 1 |
| #36 | 45% | Ebbe Waxin | 69% | 18.2K | 9% | 6 |
| #37 | 45% | Film Riot ▶ | 70% | 2.2M | 7% | 2 |
| #38 | 45% | The Photographic Eye | 71% | 228K | 5% | 1 |
| #39 | 44% | StudioBinder ▶ | 71% | 2.2M | 5% | 5 |
| #40 | 44% | Psych2Go ▶ | 67% | 13M | 11% | 3 |
| #41 | 44% | YanSculpts | 71% | 633K | 4% | 2 |
| #42 | 44% | Steve Rude the Dude | 69% | 151K | 5% | 2 |
| #43 | 43% | Malva AI | 67% | 113K | 8% | 2 |
| #44 | 42% | Matty McTech | 67% | 1.4M | 5% | 4 |
| #45 | 42% | TEDx Talks ▶ | 63% | 44.2M | 11% | 7 |
| #46 | 41% | Isa does AI | 66% | 47.6K | 4% | 2 |
| #47 | 39% | Tate | 62% | 391K | 5% | 1 |
| #48 | 36% | d&b audiotechnik | 57% | 18.6K | 5% | 1 |
Proko — 85% match, 4.3M subscribers; Jake Parker — 69% match, 190K subscribers; McKay & Gray — 60% match, 51.7K subscribers. They share a focus on drawing, comics, and art instruction, aligning with John Brinkley’s emphasis on comics creation and beginner art.
John Brinkley creates instructional art and comics content, with video titles like 'This mistake stops 99% of comics being completed' (1.6K views), 'Use this template to finally finish your comic' (829 views), 'The simple way to make your comic pages' (3K views), 'Simplify your comic process' (1.6K views), and 'These three things will help your comic flow' (606 views). He uploads roughly 1.1 videos per week, with an average of about 1.6K views per video.
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