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(red link removed) Digifiend (talk) 13:10, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
DOesn't use inline citations but references, and the list of comics needs moving. It hits the bases, but needs a little more. Hiding Talk 08:20, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
I'd say one main difference between British and US comics (though not all of them) is that US comics usually only feature one story (eg Spider-man, Batman), whereas British ones tend to feature several different stories per issue (2000AD currently has about 5-6, Viz generally has one or two per page, and the odd 3 pager). Also "Air Ace" (actually called "Air Ace Picture Library") is hardly the best example of the picture-library format (i don't think it even ran for 100 issues). A far better example is, of course, Commando, which is still published today. Also calling it a "black and white" comic is a bit wierd (the Beano certianly had mostly black and white pages up to about 1992 if i remember rightly). A better term might be "Adventure comic" or "War comic" (though other things like Super Detective Library and Hotspur weren't entirely set in war, Commando usually is...) 82.153.230.138 15:20, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
(Relevant comments copied from Wikipedia Talk:WikiProject Comics Hiding talk 14:21, 23 November 2005 (UTC))
I just read the beginning and I think it still needs some copyediting. For example, titles should be in italics, and the article needs some more links in the lead (and strangely The Beano and The Dandy aren't linked the first time they appear in the article, but the third...?! Same goes for British). Also, the Overview section has a lot of very short paragraphs, I think those should be combined to make a better reading. Plus, there should be consistancy in linking years. Currently some years are linked, others not. I personally think years are generally overlinked in many Wikipedia articles and should be cut down (see Manual of Style (links) and What should not be linked in Wikipedia) --Fritz S. 10:56, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
The whole article is somewhat of a mess; it is unclear what the focus is. How do we define a "British comic" anyway? Should we focus on format, on nationality, or should this be an overview of the British comics scene? --Martin Wisse 07:42, 24 November 2005 (UTC) I'm french and I search general informations about comics and am surprised you don't mention "Jeff Hawke" or "Dan Dare" on this page. Aren't they considered as comics by you ? An other remark there is a french magazine "Spirou" that runs (and still does) since 1938. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Madscan (talk • contribs) 09:05, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
I've noticed that a number of the British comic magazines I've read about here on Wikipedia seemed to specialize in printing adventures based on popular TV shows of the time, famous examples being TV Action (comic), Countdown (comic), TV Comic itself, Look-In, etc. Since this format isn't well-known over this side of the Atlantic, perhaps someone would start a stub describing it? -- Antaeus Feldspar 14:22, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/jong003were01_01/jong003were01_01_0002.htm
Could anybody help me with an issue involving British newspaper comics? The link goes to the start of the first (important) Dutch daily newspaper comic (1922), scroll down until the heroes meet a sort of an elf and a pig coming out of the London Evening News office in Fleetstreet. That elf-pig combination had its own comic in the London Evening News in that time, but I cannot find any indication what their names and the name of their series was. It is of some importance for the development of the history of Dutch (newspaper) comics, as it was the first comic series published in a Dutch newspaper.ThW5 09:30, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
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There is now a proposed project or project subgroup relating explicitly to British comics at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#British Comics. Any editors interesting in working with this group should indicate their interest there. Thank you. John Carter 17:43, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
I was wondering about expanding this. I was reading this article [1] and it says the British are only recently getting into graphic novels proper (as opposed to British creators going over to the US and revolutionising their market in this field) and other than Raymond Briggs they might have a point - I started Category:British graphic novels and the interesting thing is the number of literature adaptations. We recently had Kidnapped (graphic novel) and I started two articles on British publishers that have been appearing in the news Classical Comics and Self Made Hero. The interesting thing is the latter is specifically doing a line of manga adaptations of Shakespeare. Which leads into the issue of British manga - the manga Shakespeare line has art being provided by Sweatdrop Studios and/or winners of the UK/Irish version of Tokyopop's Rising Stars of Manga.
So would it be worth updating that section with a paragraph looking at the home-grown graphic novels and manga? (Emperor 17:57, 18 September 2007 (UTC))
Seems a new weekly comic is looming, The DFC, from David Fickling Books [2] [3] details are skimpy and the launch/preview seems to have been cancelled [4] but keep an eye out as it could get quite a bit of press especially if it contains a story by Phillip Pullman (as suggested in LITG - second link). (Emperor 03:31, 25 September 2007 (UTC))
The DFC launched at the end of May 2008, the first British children's comic in twenty-five years, That's wrong, what about BeanoMAX? Digifiend (talk) 13:07, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Having double checked it turned out 1985's Hoot also launched within the 25 year period. Digifiend (talk) 12:20, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
The Guardian has launched a comic section [10] for kids but it is different from others (like I think the Times) which have a collection of comic strips and the like. It is printed in broadsheet format but the fold makes it into a nearly A4 4-page comic which has a 3 page manga-style story, Robot Girl (you can read it online at the link I give), across the first three and a competition on the back. It then folds out and the insides have activities for the children. Not only does it seem like an interesting development in itself it also touches on a few things above. The main one being that it is done (by John Aggs which has done Daedalus Blue and won the Rising Stars of Manga competition) in a manga-style which seems to be a trend these days. There is also a narrow strip along the bottom of the back page where Robot Girl says if you like her story you'll like DFC and then says DFC is a secret so it appears that DFC is still in the pipeline and that the Guardian might be doing a build up to its launch. (Emperor 13:18, 27 October 2007 (UTC))
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This sentence is unclear:
During the wars the Beano and Dandy thrived due to a ban on publishing new comics, this was because of a paper shortage.
How come Beano and Dandy are excluded from the ban? Aren't they considered "new comics"? What's the reasoning? 惑乱 分からん * \)/ (\ (< \) (2 /) /)/ * (talk) 12:07, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
I've had to sever the Comic Cuts links, as it refers to actor Jack Shepherd, not the comic. Somebody should create an article at Comic Cuts (Comic) then relink it. Digifiend (talk) 13:18, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
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Is this a comic? - i.e. did it feature comic strips to any extent? If not, then I think its prominence in this page should be downgraded.
--John Price (talk) 10:00, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
This bit from the introduction is seems incorrect: "The top three longest-running comics in the world, The Dandy, The Beano and Comic Cuts are all British" - The Italian "il Giornalino" appears to have been published continuosly since 1924, and several titles (like the Belgian "Spirou" or the US "Detective Comics") have at least run significantly longer than Comic Cuts. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.150.226.76 (talk) 14:28, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
I am surprised at the lack of any mention of Toxic (magazine) in the 21st century section. Even though it isnt a 'pure' comic I believe it still deserves a mention due to its high sales and influence on other comics such as The Dandy. Eopsid (talk) 14:39, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
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Night Warrior appears to be an entirely online comic. Are we counting these? The list of comics isn't a list of websites. Richard75 (talk) 10:21, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
I've removed Andy Capp from the list of comics, because Andy Capp is not a comic and the list is not a list of characters or stories. Richard75 (talk) 10:26, 28 May 2018 (UTC)