Talk:History of the British comic

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(Relevant comments copied from Wikipedia Talk:WikiProject Comics Steve block talk 14:21, 23 November 2005 (UTC))

I just read the beginning and I think it still needs some copyediting. For example, titles should be in italics, and the article needs some more links in the lead (and strangely The Beano and The Dandy aren't linked the first time they appear in the article, but the third...?! Same goes for British). Also, the Overview section has a lot of very short paragraphs, I think those should be combined to make a better reading. Plus, there should be consistancy in linking years. Currently some years are linked, others not. I personally think years are generally overlinked in many Wikipedia articles and should be cut down (see Manual of Style (links) and What should not be linked in Wikipedia) --Fritz Saalfeld 10:56, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

The whole article is somewhat of a mess; it is unclear what the focus is. How do we define a "British comic" anyway? Should we focus on format, on nationality, or should this be an overview of the British comics scene? --Martin Wisse 07:42, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

As I see it, it's not an overview of the British comics scene, no, that's to come, probably at Comics in the United Kingdom. This is a history of the British comic, as defined in the opening sentence. Steve block talk 07:54, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
Would it not make sense to rename this article to History of British comics or something simular then? The current title does not really cover the content. --Martin Wisse 11:46, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
Aye, History of the British comic to avoid the plural? Steve block talk 13:40, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
Fine with me. Shall we Be Bold and move this article, or would it be better to mention it at the comics collaboration project page first? --Martin Wisse 08:12, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
Yes, the article deals mainly with the history, but there is an Overview section, and in addition the American comic book page deals just as exclusively with history. IMO the move was a mistake and it should be moved back. rst20xx 18:44, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New article: TV comic?

I've noticed that a number of the British comic magazines I've read about here on Wikipedia seemed to specialize in printing adventures based on popular TV shows of the time, famous examples being TV Action (comic), Countdown (comic), TV Comic itself, Look-In, etc. Since this format isn't well-known over this side of the Atlantic, perhaps someone would start a stub describing it? -- Antaeus Feldspar 14:22, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Add in TV Century 21, and its sisters Tv Tornado, Solo, Lady Penelope, Joe 90. But surely it is pretty common to have comics based on TV series - Star Trek, of course, and Gold Key Comics had many others, didn't they? Hanna Barbera stuff, Buck Rogers, etc. The main difference is that the UK has always gone for weekly anthology titles with often only one or two pages to each strip each week. -- Beardo 01:53, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
There are entries like List of films based on comic books (although it was moved and needs moving back) and List of films based on comic strips (and see the see also on the latter for many more examples) so I'd suggest you could have List of comics based on TV series (using comics and TV series for their more neutral meanings - comic books and TV shows is a little too American ;) ). Looks like you already have the basics of the entry listed above - use those others as your basis for the list and you are away. Keep an eye on comics anthology and to add to the list: Stargate Comics, Justice League Adventures, The Batman Adventures, Gotham Girls#Comic series and Superman Adventures (the last four worth highlighting as they are comic book adaptations of a successful TV series which was based on the comic books - all of them taking place in the DC animated universe which has seen minor crossovers with the core reality of the main DC Universe - for the full list of comics based on the DCAU see DC animated universe#Comic books). (Emperor 03:58, 21 November 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Newspaper comics?

http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/jong003were01_01/jong003were01_01_0002.htm

Could anybody help me with an issue involving British newspaper comics? The link goes to the start of the first (important) Dutch daily newspaper comic (1922), scroll down until the heroes meet a sort of an elf and a pig coming out of the London Evening News office in Fleetstreet. That elf-pig combination had its own comic in the London Evening News in that time, but I cannot find any indication what their names and the name of their series was. It is of some importance for the development of the history of Dutch (newspaper) comics, as it was the first comic series published in a Dutch newspaper.ThW5 09:30, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

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