Talk:List of comics publishing companies

message: We include companies like Dell and Fawcett, which had comics branches of larger publishing firms. Should we include, say, Pantheon or Scholastic Books, book publishers with substantial squarebound comics lines? Certainly, Scholastic with Bone, Amulet, Adventures of Super Diaper Baby, and so forth gets a lot more pages of comics into people's hands than a lot of the smaller publishers listed here. --Nat Gertler (talk) 06:53, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it might be reasonable to include them if the company has an arm devoted to comics, as Pantheon does.  For companies that just happen to have published comics, I don't think you could ever hunt them all down, and I don't think it would be useful to readers to have the list populated with nearly every known publishing company on Earth, most of which only published one or a handful of comics.  CüRlyTüRkeyTalkContribs 22:28, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is a comics publishing company? 

message: Claypool continues to publish new comics material - just as an online publisher rather than a print publisher. The put up some new material today, in fact. --Nat Gertler (talk) 18:46, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Claypool is not defunct 

message: Now that the lists are tablified, why not combine them?  We could see which companies were defunct by the "defunct" column, and by sorting by column you could get all the defunct companies together automatically.  It would require less maintenance, and be more helpful to readers, I think. CüRlyTüRkeyTalkContribs 22:24, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I support that. I've done something like that at List of animation studios--Cattus talk 22:49, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Are you volunteering to do it, or should I go ahead?  It's a bit of a job, and I'd hate to do it just to find out it's already been done. CüRlyTüRkeyTalkContribs 03:51, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: You can do it :)--Cattus talk 12:23, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Okey dokey.  I'll probably do it tomorrow.  CüRlyTüRkeyTalkContribs 13:00, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. CüRlyTüRkeyTalkContribs 02:26, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Combine lists? 

message: There are almost 30 publishing companies that aren't linked to an article but to their websites. Should these be turned into redlinks? I think I'll be bold and remove them. Discuss... Rwalker (talk) 20:13, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The discussion's happening in the above subsection. CüRlyTüRkeyTalkContribs 01:22, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Links 

message: The logos column on this list needs to be removed. It violates WP:NFLISTS. Further, this article now uses 88 non-free images. This is more non-free images than any other article on Wikipedia, in fact more than TWICE the number of the 2nd highest user. This is unacceptable under WP:NFCC #3. Further, every single non-free image has no rationale for use on this article, which is a violation of WP:NFCC #10c. Would someone please remove this column? Thank you, --Hammersoft (talk) 03:55, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, it appears far too many of the logos have been tagged as being under copyright when they actually don't qualify.  I've removed the clear violations, and retagged the rest with .  You might want to check these things out before "requiring" an entire column be removed. CüRlyTüRkeyTalkContribs 13:31, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I have removed the remaining logos still tagged as under copyright per WP:NFLISTS. Even the free logos should be removed, as they violate the Logo Manual of Style. Alpha_Quadrant (talk) 01:33, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, the logos weren't being used as icons as such, but it's pretty obvious the column's going to be pretty empty, so I've removed it. CüRlyTüRkeyTalkContribs 00:31, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Required change 

message: I won't edit it in myself out of WP:COI concerns, but yes, About Comics is still (mildly) active - you can see a listing for a book we published late last year here. And we are US-based. --Nat Gertler (talk) 05:30, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the information and thanks for the sensitivity about COI. Cloveapple (talk) 05:35, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  About Comics 

message: I posted this next note as part of the conversation above, but I think it got lost in the larger conversation so I'm reposting it.
I noticed some of the sources aren't independent ones. I hope we'll be abyle to replace those with independent sources as we go. I'm thinking for now those should get tagged so we remember to fix those and don't think the clean up is done. Cloveapple (talk) 03:26, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: No, there's no reason to obliterate WP:SELFSOURCEs for the relatively non-promotional statement that they exist. This isn't to say that we shouldn't replace them with an independent source when possible, but we should not delete the existing source until we do so. --Nat Gertler (talk) 05:27, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Independent sourcing 

message: I'm about to go through and add a bunch of citations for publishers that I can match up to the GCD (and add a few missing U.S. golden age publishers, with citations).  I notice some rows have multiple citations for the country, start date, end date, etc.  Is this always required, or can I put a single citation for the whole row in the notes column or on the publisher name?  Ixat totep (talk) 18:59, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: If you look closely, some of the entries have different sources for, say, the founding date and the date they went defunct.  Personally, I throw the citation on each column to make the source for each piece of data totally unambiguous, but I don't think there's an actual rule that it has to be done so. CüRlyTüRkeyTalkContribs 01:17, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations per column or per publisher? 

message: In my opinion, it makes sense to list the best-known titles for every publisher, say, two, or three at most. This would be a benefit for someone recognizing a publisher by title only, or searching for a title specifically. There are some instances where titles are already listed in the "notes-section", like Matrix, or 12 bis. Looking at entries like Rolf Kauka or Dark Horse, i don′t think titles added to the notes section are all too useful (Arrow Comics, Adventure). Would a new column "Title(s)" make sense? Do best-known published titles at all? Regards, Gott 17:57, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that would fall under Original Research.  Also, the titles that companies are best known for change over time—for instance, DC's cowboy comics were amongst their best-selling titles in the 1950s, not Superman or Batman.  I don't think titles should be added to the notes section, either—that section should be for info such as mergers, company name changes, etc.  For Aardvark-Vanaheim, for instance, the note is "Most titles moved to Renegade Press in 1985". Curly Turkey (gobble) 21:45, 10 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that most things that were a likely to list that anyone would be looking for would have their publisher more efficiently identified through other means. That isn't to say that some reasonable descriptor of the publisher might not be in order, but a few titles may not serve that, particularly as folks who do not know the publisher already are likely to not recognize the title. It's clearer to note that a publisher specializes in Japanese comics translated into English than that they put out Neon Genesis Evangeline and Ranma 1/2. --Nat Gertler (talk) 23:50, 10 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm in agreement with Curly Turkey and Nat Gertler on this, for the reasons mentioned above. -- stoshmaster (talk) 15:37, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I don′t think that′d fall under OR in every case, but the concensus is clearly "no titles". Thanks for your opinions, regards, Gott (talk) 16:05, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Column for "Titles" 

message: Ardden Entertainment has changed names to Scout Comics and Entertainment.
Here's the new website link:  http://www.scoutcomics.com/index.html#about
Hope this helps!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.196.200.120 (talk) 22:26, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ardden Entertainment 

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message: Victims of the acute paper rationing of 1945-1949 which bankrupt many U.S. Publishing Companies during WWII, O.W. Comics, Inc., was a short-lived house consisting of two comic veterans, William "Bill" Woolfolk, who had worked for MLJ and Facett, and John Gerard "Jack" Oxton, Sr., a film editor with Paramount in NYC.
Anything after 1945 is not "during World War II", someone should fix that history. (Also, a single "house" should not be a plural "victims", "Publishing Companies" should not be capitalized.) -- Nat Gertler (talk) 16:38, 18 October 2023 (UTC)
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