Wikidata:WikiProject PCC Wikidata Pilot/San Diego State University/Comic Arts Project
Introduction[edit]
"The Comic Arts Collection at San Diego State includes circulating comics and scholarship about the comic arts, and a large collection of non-circulating floppy comics and graphic novels in Special Collections and University Archives. The collection emphasizes alternative and independent titles, underground comix, drawn books and Modern Age comics, as well as materials that document the history of comic book culture, fandom and the creative process behind comic book production. Noteworthy holdings include a large collection of ephemera and memorabilia from fan conventions, full runs of RAW Magazine and Milestone Comics, feminist literature, self-published and mini-comics, French language comics, several popular manga series, and vintage comics and comic strips, including Disney Comics."
Source: Jackson, P. (2020, November). Comic Arts: Home. Retrieved November 17, 2020, from https://libguides.sdsu.edu/comicarts
Comic Arts Project[edit]
For more information about the Comic Arts Wikidata Project, please see the links below:
Application Profiles[edit]
- Publishers
- Creators includes authors, inkers, artists, letterers, etc.
- Corporate creators
- Fictitious characters
- Works applies to works listed in notable works and award winners
Workflows[edit]
Participants[edit]
Project Lead: Allison Bailund [Sandrileine (talk • contribs • logs)]
Contributor: Kathleen Boyd [Katpaws (talk • contribs • logs)]
Contributor: Mary Chang Maichang8312020 (talk • contribs • logs) adding Chinese language labels for people and publishers
Comics Related Queries[edit]
Here are a few queries we've created. For graphical views, click on any point for expanded information.
If you have any questions about any of our queries or would like help crafting a query or modifying one of our existing queries, feel free to reach out.
Characters
- Marvel superheroes and their powers or Marvel characters and their powers
- DC superheroes and their powers or DC characters and their powers
- Marvel superheroes and their enemies
- DC superheroes and their enemies
- Women superheroes and their creators or for a graphical view.
- Women comics characters with women creators Color coded Female fictional characters with women creators
- DC superheroes and their creators, defaults to graphical view.
- Superheroes and their place of birth superheroes and supervillains, place of birth various types of fictional characters and place of birth
- Superheroes with some optional information showing, such as students, gender, etc.
- Comics characters with some optional information including first appearance, ethnic group, etc.
- DC characters with a list of their students or a dimensions view
- Ethnic groups of comics characters Ethnic groups of fictional characters both table views, includes who created the character
- Ethnic groups of all fictional characters or all comic characterscreators not included
- First appearance of comics characters
- Fictional locations where characters have died, location in black or Fictional locations where characters were born
- Causes of death of fictional characters
Creators
- All comic writers who have won awards note there is duplication of names or graphical view
- All Eisner winners, defaults to a timeline viewtable view
- All comic award winners, defaults to a timeline view table view
- All comics writers in Wikidata with their works
- Comics writers, artists and cartoonists and who they were influenced by, graphical view
- Bill Finger award winners, timeline view alternate timeline view, names onlybatch loaded in July table view
- Inkpot award winners, table view timeline view mapped by place of birth
- Reuben award winners, graphical view
- Ringo award winners, table view
- Harvey award winners, table view graphical view
- Shuster award winners, graphical view
- Writers, artists, cartoonists, and mangakas with their place of birth on a map, color-coded by time period
- Creators with their place of birth including information about date of birth; note many of the January 1st dates are estimates, no actual DOB exists and lastly, this one is harder to read, creators with their place of birth and place of death on a map, connected with a line these queries were adapted from a query originally posted in the Wikidata Telegram channel.
Publishers
- The publisher Fawcett, feel free to click and explore in more depth. Query originally created as part of Graphic Possibilities from MSU.
- Materials published by Fawcett in a timeline view. Query originally created as part of Graphic Possibilities from MSU
- All comics publishing companies in Wikidata, timeline based on inception or graphical view or bubble graph, grouped by year founded
- Everything published by DC, with authors or graphical view, just works
- Comics publishers and their locations, on a map
- Materials published by Marvel, graphical view
- A closer look at DC Comics and their history or DC Comics and it's predecessors and subsidiaries this is a work in progress but you can view some of the mergers/complications as we work on verifying and cleaning up the information in Wikidata
- A closer look at Marvel comics SDSU hasn't started tackling Marvel comics yet
- Publishers on a map, color coded by decade created work in progress
- Materials published by Image, with authors if listed in Wikidata
Works
- Golden Age comics, graphical view, Golden Age comics, graphical view first visualization based on inception, second on publication date
- Silver Age comics, graphical view, Silver Age comics, graphical view, first visualization based on inception, second on publication date
- Comics and their derivative works, including story arcs, graphical view
- Main subjects of comics, graphical view
- Comics in Wikidata with their characters and the characters' genders, table view
- Comics and their narrative locations on a mapincluding characters depicted
- Award winning works, graphical view
- Eisner award winning works, table view, timeline view in process of uploading
- International manga award winning works, table view, with original language titles
- Comics and their narrative location on a map, color coded by decade published
- Comics and their narrative location with characters depicted, table
- Comics with the characters present in the work
- Comic books and genres, on a line graph by publication date
- Number of comics by year of publication
Specific to SDSU
- Award winning works from SDSU's project
- All award winners from SDSU's project or concatenated or graphical view or color coded with awards in black
- Notable works from SDSU's project with works grouped by creator or graphical view
- Comics writers and their place of birth, map view
- Comic artists and their place of birth, map view
- Publishers that are part of SDSU's project, timeline of inception
- Influences for comic artists/writers that are part of SDSU's projectcolor coded query where the influencers are coded as red
- Where people were educated, graphical viewColor coded with educational institutions in black
- Characters created by people on SDSU's project, graphical viewFemale characters created by people on SDSU's project
- Ethnic groups, all from self-identifying statements/interviews (note we've tried very hard to only include statements based on self identification, via interviews, biographies, etc. If we've included any statements in error, please let us know and we will correct it immediately.)
Note that some of these queries, especially those related to SDSU, are rather sparse, we are working on spreadsheets to batch load information for works and awards.
Most common properties[edit]
Lists of the most common properties, can be used for application profiles or for ideas of statements that can be included.
Works
- Most common properties for comics
- Most common properties for comic books
- Most common properties for comic strips
- Most common properties for manga
- Most common properties for comic book series
Publishers
- Most common properties for publishers
- Most common properties for comics publishers
- Most common properties for imprints
People
- Most common properties for comic writers
- Most common properties for comic artists
- Most common properties for mangakas
- Most common properties for cartoonist
- Most common properties for letterers
- Most common properties for colorists
queries for people based on occupation
Characters
- Most common properties for fictional characters
- Most common properties for comics characters
- Most common properties for animated characters
- Most common properties for superheroes with superhero as a character type and Most common properties for superheroes with superhero as an occupation
- Most common properties for supervillains with supervillain as a character type and Most common properties for supervillains with supervillain as an occupation
Note that per WikiProject Narration, the preferred method for modeling superheroes/supervillains is to use character type. However, many still list superhero/supervillain as an occupation, so I ran queries for the most common properties for both ways.
Lists of items created/edited[edit]
note you may need to manually update the list(s)
Ways to View Wikidata Items[edit]
There are a number of ways to view Wikidata items to make them more interesting and visually appealing. Feel free to grab a Q number from any of our items created/edited and check it out below. Here are a few options.
A few recommendations for Wikidata gadgets and user scripts as well as any tricks we've found useful. This page will likely update as the project continues.
Request to Have Information Removed[edit]
For any creators (writers, artists, letterers, colorists, etc.) if we have included any information about you in error or if there is information you'd prefer not be listed either in Wikidata or the Library of Congress Name Authority File, please let us know and we will make every effort to rectify the situation.
More Information[edit]
For more information about our collections, please see Comic Arts LibGuide.