Template talk:Infobox graphic novel

message: This is a page for the development of a generic infobox for all (European) comic books, based on the superheerobox (Template:Superherobox) with some input from the Valerian infobox (Template:Valerian Album Infobox). 
We currently have infoboxes for both Asterix books and Valerian books, and it would be quite confusing to have individual infoboxes for all (European) comic books, as most have a similar need anyway.
The template is intended for an individual comic book, not a complete series, and will be optimized (hopefully) for comics in the Franco-Belgian tradition, i.e. comics that first appeared in either a magazine (Spirou, Tintin, Pilote, ...) or a newspaper (like Spike and Suzy, or the first adventures of Tintin, and then in an album, or comics that appeared immediately in an album. I have no idea if it can be used for American comics and/or manga, as I don't know enough about those: any input is more than welcome, and the more generic we can make this, the better. 
Be bold, and edit this template as much as you like: but please refrain from using it in actual articles until it has been discussed some more and some consensus has been reached. Thank you! Fram 15:26, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Why this infobox?

message: #Contents missing? Contents superfluous?
#What with different versions of same title (e.g. the old Tintin comics?)
Any comments, criticisms, ... welcome, both here on the talk page as in the template itself. A test can be conducted at User talk:Fram/Sandbox or elsewhere of course. Please don't use the template in real articles yet, until it is more definitive and discussed. Thank you! Fram 07:07, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Contents

message: A Man In Black, the template is almost finished, but I wonder if you can do anything about the alignment of the parameters (not the labels, those are allright). They are aligned inside each section, but not from section to section, and I think it would look much nicer if the alignment continued, i.e. every parameter started at the same position. I've looked for a solution but couldn't see an easy one. Could you please have one more look at it? Fram 05:07, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I know, I still need to fix it. I think it's because of the multiple tables inside one box; I'm going to work on combining the whole mess (which is going to be a big rewrite, and likely will need to be done in userspace before I put it into the live version) into a single table once I finish more-pressing issues (like the color scheme stuff and usage instructions). Functionality before appearance, after all. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 05:18, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Allright! It's indeed not pressing, but I started to wonder if I was the only one seeing this :-) Fram 05:23, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Situation on September 21st

message: I've added previssue and nextissue, a feature which was available in other boxes (used in tintin, asterix, ...) but was missing here. I'll test it now at King Ottokar's Sceptre. Fram 19:55, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: October 17

message: I'll try to add the boxes for ISBN and ISBN (translated) later today! Fram 06:28, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done! Fram 08:41, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: ISBN

message: Hi, I only spotted this template today - well done, it should prove very useful for those of us writing articles on Franco-Belgian comics. I've migrated Ambassador of the Shadows over to the new template with a view to migrating all the Valérian articles in due course. I would, however, like to make a few observations and suggestions:
*The language and ISBN parameters are situated in the Original Publication section; should these be put at the top along with publisher, date and series? The way it reads at the moment, it appears to be relating the ISBN number to the magazine the story was serialised in rather than the album it was later published in. Similarly, the language parameter doesn't just relate to the language the story was serialised in.
*Possibly a field should be added under Original Publication for the ISSN number that identifies periodical publications? While the likes of Pilote and Tintin had probably folded before ISSN numbers appeared, Spirou is still going strong and I'm sure there are others.
*Possibly a field to include the volume number for albums that are part of a series?
— Joe King 16:12, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Some observations

message: Shouldn't there be a genre field?--May Cause Dizziness (talk) 20:48, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Genre field 

message: What are we supposed to do with multiple ISBNs?  I was updating the infobox to Ghost World, which has different ISBNs for the hardcover and softcover editions.  CüRlyTüRkeyTalkConTribs 03:53, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Multiple ISBNs? 

message: I ran into this with The Playboy—it was serialized by Vortex Comics and collected by Drawn and Quarterly.  I don't see how this is handled in the infobox.  Do we need a nother field? Curly Turkey ¡gobble! 23:04, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. Ran into this issue with Box Office Poison — serialized by Antarctic Press, collected by Top Shelf Productions. -- stoshmaster (talk) 14:01, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Separate publishers for serial and book?