Discussions on Comic Books
Regular data loads
Just realised I'd posted this to the Comic Strips domain by accident, whoops. My throughts about getting regular data about comic books below.
Comics are an area where a large amount of information is produced on a regular basis. A distributor will stock roughly 5000 new items every month. A lot of information about these titles is probably held somewhere, is looking for regular loads from distributors / publishers (Marvel, DC, Diamond etc.) something that Freebase is about - for the sake of keeping information up to date - or are we looking for a more community based approach.
Of course, after this question is answered we still need to get hold of said information - but that's a fight for another day.
Even without data loads
If we get enough data typed and input, and build a custom application on top of it, we'll get people actually using it for reference. At that point someone will figure out how to slurp up the latest data.
comic book artist?
is there such a thing these days as a comic book artist? (that is, someone who only does the art) inker and colorer are way too specific for what i have in mind.
You mean "only does art" as opposed to someone who also writes? Sure -- there are lots of them. If you mean someone who exclusively does pencils, probably only on a per-project basis.
I ask because I wanted to give a fictional person that as a profession in his fictional universe...but I couldn't find any such profession as general as a comic book artist.
"Comic book creator" exists as a profession already, which includes both artists and writers. You could use that, or create a new topic.
