Wikidata:WikiProject Comics

Scope

This project concerns all items and properties related to or useful to describe sequential art (Q7452501) of any kind.

clipped syndicated strips in a window in Helsinki, Finland
'two guys on a couch' subgenre of webcomic
typical pulp comics cover with alien beast
full webcomic / print comic page
newspaper strip
webcomic panel
magazine comic logo

Goals

Improve the representation of comics concepts and comics themselves on Wikidata
Create best practices for modeling comics in Wikidata
Coordinate with comics-related WikiProjects in sister Wikimedia projects to allow them to use Wikidata in their templates, etc.

Projects

comic book (Q1760610)s (actually a kind of magazine)
newspaper comics
- strip syndicates
- The Hots (Q19090041)
- works of Tad Dorgan (Q7674223)
webcomic (Q213369)s (subpage /Webcomics work group)
- xkcd (Q13915)
- Pepper&Carrot (Q24289654) (subpage /Webcomics work group/Q47012490)
manga (Q8274)/manhwa (Q562214)/manhua (Q754669)/manfra (Q3285662)
- works of Kasuga (Q66447598)
graphic novel (Q725377) (not necessarily a novel in the literary sense)
- Maus (Q59696)
other related non-comics forms
- BD Comic Strip Festival (Q67155222)
- 'comic trails'

Best practices

Modeling series

Comic books are often published in a series based around a specific character or team. Individual sub-series with a specific creative team may exist within the larger series. In this case, a Wikidata item should be created for the series, the sub-series, as well as any volumes in the series or sub-series. This should be modeled in the following hierarchy:

Series (example: Iron Man (Q56273856))
- Sub-series (example: Tales of Suspense (Q782363))
  - Volume (example: Marvel Masterworks: Iron Man Volume 1, a reprint of Tales of Suspense #39-50 in a single volume)
    - Issue (Tales of Suspense #39)

follows (P155)/followed by (P156) should be used for connecting volumes within series and issues within volumes and series.

Renumbering

When a series has been re-numbered, this is usually to distinguish part of a series for marketing purposes, the series ordinal (P1545) property should have two values: one for the number in the series being distinguished (the preferred value), and the second for its number in the overall series. This ensures that series remain connected.

Modeling characters

It is preferable to connect characters to a work using characters (P674) statements on the work itself rather than using present in work (P1441) on the item for the character. For popular comics characters, listing all the works in which they are present quickly becomes unwieldy.

Participants

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