Talk:Adventures Into Digital Comics

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This page was referenced on the Roy Thomas page, but the reference was deleted. As I can't see him mentioned here, I have not altered. -- Beardo 20:52, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

I see he is here - as an art contributer ! I'll wait until it is actually released before doing anything, though. -- Beardo 22:03, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/06/01 - Penny Arcade's spoof of the film. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 04:20, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] To user 71.106.19.156: Stop spamming.

I'm guessing that you are involved with the production of this film and are using Wikipedia comic artist pages to (not so subtly) promote its release. The fact that an artist's work is cited in a film or television interview does not qualify as "Other Media". For example, Frank Miller, Will Eisner, and others of note, were prominently interviewed in Ron Mann's award-winning documentary film Comic Book Confidential, yet you'll notice no mention of it on those artist pages because it's third-party material. "Other Media", where applicable, would refer to those artists having been professionally contracted to do work outside of the comics field, such as Miller's work on various Hollywood scripts, French artist Mobius doing design work on James Cameron's "The Abyss" or Mike Mignola doing character designs for Disney's "Atlantis". — Get the idea?

Second, the fact that artwork "appears" in a film does not entitle your adding off-site OFF TOPIC links to said film in the "External Links" section of each and every one of those Wikipedia artist pages. That amounts to nothing short of transparent advertising. Should I go to the "Silver Surfer" Wikipedia page, mentioning that "Silver Surfer was once referenced in dialogue of a 1980's Richard Gere movie", and then add external links there leading to "Richard Gere" movie webpages?? I think you'll agree it would be nonsense.

At best, that stuff qualifies as "Trivia", not "Other Media", and certainly does NOT merit special mentioning in "External Links". You've copy-pasted that same description with the word "showcased" for every artist listed: no one else can verify the screen time or importance granted to each artist since apparently only YOU have seen the film to date, yet clearly you are stretching the definition of the word to dishonestly lend an appearance of legitimacy to your self-styled Wikipedia advertising campaign: art merely "included in" a film does not constitute it being "showcased".