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Welcome to the United States comics work group of the Comics WikiProject!

Contents 1 Scope 2 Participants 2.1 Guestbook 3 Tagging and assessment 4 Templates 5 Categories 6 To-do 7 Resources 8 Comics Portal

[edit] Scope

The group centers around Wikipedia articles relating to comics publishers based in the United States, and the characters, publications, fictional locales, storylines, and creators of these comics, and appearances of same in other media. Specifically, this project deals with all United States publishers other than DC and Marvel (pending creation of the proposed separate work groups for these publishers). These include all articles in the Category:Comic book publishing companies of the United States relevant to comics. Not all articles within this category will be specifically relevant to comics, however.

[edit] Participants

Please remember to also add your name to the main list of project members if you are not yet listed there.

1. Phoenix741 23:23, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
2. John Carter 00:26, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
3. (Emperor 01:04, 31 July 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Guestbook

If you are sympathetic to the cause of this project, but for whatever reason choose not to commit yourself to becoming a regular member, please feel free to show your support by signing the list below!:

[edit] Tagging and assessment

United States comics work group assessment statistics United States comics articles Importance None Total Quality FA 2 2 B 30 30 Start 200 200 Stub 131 131 List 1 1 Assessed 364 364 Unassessed 2 2 Total 366 366 worklist • log • category

Any article related to this task force should be marked by adding |US-work-group=yes to the {{Comicsproj}} project banner at the top of its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax). This will automatically place it into Category:United States comics work group articles.

[edit] Templates

• For main project templates, see the project's main template page.
• {{US-comics-creator-stub}} and company specific ones: {{Image-Comics-stub}} and {{Disney-comics-stub}}
• Userbox: {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/Outreach/User COMICS United States comics work group}}
• Talk page header (adjust to suit):

{{Comicsproj
|class=stub
|importance=low
|image=yes
|infobox=yes
|US-work-group=yes
}}

[edit] Categories

• Category:American comics
• The Category:Comic book publishing companies of the United States and all subcategories, barring those which are covered by other existing groups.

[edit] To-do

• Tag articles.
• Recruit interested editors.
• Collect categories, resource links, and templates.
• Expand the open task listing above.
• Add things here!

[edit] Resources

Finding publication sources outside of the publisher's site can sometimes be tricky (especially when looking forthings outside the Big Two) but there are good databases:

• Grand Comic-Book Database - good breadth and depth. Templates: {{gcdb}} and {{gcdb series}}
• Comic Book DB - similar good coverage with a cleaner and more accessible front end. Template: {{comicbookdb}}
• Big Comic Book DataBase - useful as a back-up but coverage isn't as wide but it may be deeper for some titles
• CBDB - another option but a bit less user-friendly

Also for news, reviews and interviews:

• Newsarama - good for news updates and announcements as well as interviews
• Comic Book Resources - ditto
• Silver Bullet Comic Books (soon to change its name - possibly through confusion with Silver Bullet Comics - we've had problems with that see the deletion at Silver Bullet Comics) - great for finding quality reviews and they also have some useful interviews.
• Broken Frontier - can be another useful source for reviews

[edit] Comics Portal

The Comics Portal requires regular input and is always seeking volunteers. Help us bring this portal at Featured portal status!