Talk:List of comics creators

message: What's the difference between a "comics creator" and a "cartoonist", the only difference I can think of is that "cartoonists" would also include creators of "cartoons", such as Gary Larson, Dan Piraro etc. (Ie having only one single panel)
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So this is just for comic books, one would not expect to find Charles M. Schulz here? Should there be a seperate List of comic strip creators article? Not that I'm volunteering to do that.  =o)  - Eisnel 11:51, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Comic Strips, Comic Books, And A Separate Article For Writers, Pencilers, Inkers, etc.

message: Something else: I personally prefer to have every author linked, even if that creates redlinks. This way, it is immediately clear who hasn't gotten an article yet (and so perhaps isn't notable enough for inclusion here, or what work is still left), and once the article is created, you don't have to check back to make all mentions of him/her into wikilinks. My reasoning is that either you are listed here because you are noteworthy, and then at one point or another an article has to be made, or you are not noteworthy, and then you should be thrown off the list. Fram 14:09, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: same here =)  frbarba 17:07, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

text: But several cartoonists with short, "common" names will link to other topics. We'd need to go over suspicious entries manually, and add for instance (cartoonist)| (comics artist)| or something, if the links are incorrect. 惑乱 分からん 16:05, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Redlinks

message: Might it be an idea to invert the creators names? eg: "Miller, Frank" as opposed to "Frank Miller."
:Yes, it could be done Lvr 14:03, 14 May 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Is there a consensus (silent or not) to have the authors listed as Doe, John (instead of John Doe)? Secondly, is there a consensus to add the best known creation(s) of each creator after his name. Finally, if this is the case, do we list them as "creator of", or do we list them as "author of" and "artist of" (which solves the problem of people like Franquin who have continued a serie (Spirou et Fantasio), instead of creating it)? 
I'm willing to do all three (second and third only for those I'm familiar enough with), but only if this is seen as the correct way to proceed. Fram 14:09, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Names and creations

message: I guess it's all good, but how come there are so many cuban cartoonists on this list? Seems like someone has a huge interest in cuban comics...
Hmmm, well, I guess the list is good, but there should be links to several of the greatest cuban cartoonists. For now, there is only a list, with no real links containing any info. Hopefully, the guy who put up the list, or some other cuban/hispanophone will write some bios later. I am myself a rather big fan of comics, and know some about a big lot of the examples from other countries, but I have no idea about any of these many cuban examples.
Todd Mcfarlane was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, by the way.
: With all respect to Cuban comic-book creators, this page is an incredibly long scroll and is over the optimal K size Wikipedia recommends, and I wonder how useful it is to have a laundry list of well over a hundred Cuban creators with no individual entries? There are countless, say, US comics creators who have written/drawn a few issue of this or not but do not have a sufficient body of work to warrant an encyclopedia listing. The vast majority of this Cuban-creator list appear to be virtual unknowns (certainly, not well-enough known that knowledgable people have written entries for them). Let's open this for discussion: Should this page, rather than give these laundry lists, link to entries for these various regions' comics creators? That might be more useful than a single entry with hundreds and hundreds of names. Thoughts? Tenebrae 12 Sept. 2005, 1:25PM ET
::Or possibly split up the page into sub-pages for all the different countries. Btw, the only one of these Cuban cartoonists I have heard about before was Antonio Prohias, and I guess he could be considered a nativized American, by now.
:::There definitiely should not be so many Cubans on the list. I think the best solution would be, as someone suggested, to create pages for each country. Bot that I'm offering to do it rst20xx 21:06, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: We could start with the Cuban page, anyway, keeping only Antonio Prohias here, since he is the only one who is internationally known. 81.232.72.53 21:34, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Cuban creators

message: I started making edits to the list to address some issues.
*If there's a separate list for a given country, it's not necessary to reproduce it here (constituting a content fork/duplicate). Including a subset is very rarely called for as it winds up as a poor substitute for the main article or WP:OR to determine the "most important" subset.
*Lists of people shouldn't have non-notable individuals. This almost always means that we should have an article about a person before including his or her name in a list. (WP:LISTPEOPLE, WP:CSC, WP:NOT, etc.). Having a notable comic does not make someone notable as notability is not inherited.
*To glance at a given section, the foreign language translations at the top look like a mistake to someone who doesn't know that language. As it's not part of the list of comics creators but rather a function that should be served by the various language-specific Wikipedias, I think these should probably go (Wikipedia is not a translation tool, after all, and would typically just include such a thing when it's the name of a work, say). — Rhododendrites talk \\ 14:55, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Several list issues 

message: Any thoughts on the extent to which this list overlaps with list of cartoonists, which includes cartoonists of comic books and comic strips? Seems very similar, given there is a separate list of animators. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 14:57, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overlap with list of cartoonists?