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I recommend that we break each section into two subsections (major publishers and minor publishers), for the sake of ease in dealing with the list. The problem is, how would we classify major vs. minor? I would recommend a criteria of more two imprints, but under this idea, Comico was a minor publisher, and Studio Ironcat a major one. So we'll have to think on this one. Any ideas?-- Mitsukai 19:43, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
Is 4Winds, publisher of Scout, still in business?
Added Custom Comics of America, who made the RaceWarrior series. Anyone but me have them?-- Alexrules43 20:08, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
FYI, Event Comics is missing from the list. (Not an active publisher AFAIK)
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)
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)
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. CüRlyTüRkey Talk Contribs 22:24, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
There are an awful lot of companies listed here that are nothing more than an external link---not even a founding date or any other data on them. Would it be so terrible just to delete them?
There is also an awful lot of redlinks. Should we be preserving them? CüRlyTüRkey Talk Contribs 02:26, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
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)
I've been reference hunting and I have more precise dates for when some of the companies launched, folded, or were bought. In a number of cases I have a month and year and in a few I have an exact date. Is there a way to add this to the table without messing up the sorting feature for the dates? Cloveapple ( talk) 19:01, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for helping, by the way. CüRlyTüRkey Talk Contribs 22:01, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
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)
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)
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)
If the sources aren't independent, then they don't need to wait for a replacement. Such "sources" should be obliterated with extreme prejudice.
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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)
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)
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)
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I recommend that we break each section into two subsections (major publishers and minor publishers), for the sake of ease in dealing with the list. The problem is, how would we classify major vs. minor? I would recommend a criteria of more two imprints, but under this idea, Comico was a minor publisher, and Studio Ironcat a major one. So we'll have to think on this one. Any ideas?-- Mitsukai 19:43, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
Is 4Winds, publisher of Scout, still in business?
Added Custom Comics of America, who made the RaceWarrior series. Anyone but me have them?-- Alexrules43 20:08, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
FYI, Event Comics is missing from the list. (Not an active publisher AFAIK)
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)
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)
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. CüRlyTüRkey Talk Contribs 22:24, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
There are an awful lot of companies listed here that are nothing more than an external link---not even a founding date or any other data on them. Would it be so terrible just to delete them?
There is also an awful lot of redlinks. Should we be preserving them? CüRlyTüRkey Talk Contribs 02:26, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
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)
I've been reference hunting and I have more precise dates for when some of the companies launched, folded, or were bought. In a number of cases I have a month and year and in a few I have an exact date. Is there a way to add this to the table without messing up the sorting feature for the dates? Cloveapple ( talk) 19:01, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for helping, by the way. CüRlyTüRkey Talk Contribs 22:01, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
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)
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)
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)
If the sources aren't independent, then they don't need to wait for a replacement. Such "sources" should be obliterated with extreme prejudice.
CüRlyTüRkey
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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)
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)
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)
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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)