Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/European comics work group

Welcome to the European comics work group of the Comics WikiProject!

Scope

This task force/work group would deal specifically with the characters, publications, storylines, locales, and, to a lesser extent, creators of European comics, as well as these characters, etc., appearances in other media.

Participants

Please remember to also add your name to the main list of project members if you are not yet listed there.

1. John Carter 00:25, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
2. Murgh^disc. 06:35, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
3. Emperor 14:49, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
4. Fram 08:03, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
5. Zoli79 11:24, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
6. Pah777 17:58, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Guestbook

If you are sympathetic to the cause of this project, but for whatever reason choose not to commit yourself to becoming a regular member, please feel free to show your support by signing the list below!:

Tagging and assessment

European comics work group assessment statistics European comics pages by quality Quality Total pages FA 1 GA 5 B 10 C 31 Start 340 Stub 547 List 28 Category 11 File 49 Redirect 5 Template 20 NA 1 Assessed 1,048 Total 1,048 worklist • log • category

Any article related to this task force should be marked by adding |European-work-group=yes to the {{Comicsproj}} project banner at the top of its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax). This will automatically place it into Category:European comics work group articles.

Templates

• For main project templates, see the project's main template page.

• {{FrancoBelgian-comics-stub}}
• {{Europe-comics-creator-stub}}
• Userbox: {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/Outreach/User COMICS European comics work group}}
• Talk page header (adjust to suit):

{{Comicsproj

|class=stub

|importance=low

|image=yes

|infobox=yes

|European-work-group=yes

}}

Categories

• Category:European comics
• Category:European comics creator stubs

To-do

• Start tagging relevant pages by adding |European-work-group=yes to the {{Comicsproj}} banner on talk pages.

• Tag articles.
• Recruit interested editors.
• Collect categories, resource links, and templates.
• Expand the open task listing above.
• Expand European comics creator article stubs
• Add things here!

Resources

Reliable independent sources

• Lambiek Comiclopedia A chief English language reliable source covering European comics, see Lambiek for general background
• International Catalogue of Superheroes, breaking things down by country
• Hyphen, a company specialised in comic-book copyright management.

Reliable but not independent sources (publishers)

• Dupuis, publisher of Spirou magazine and comics like Lucky Luke, Gaston Lagaffe, the Smurfs, ...
• Casterman, publisher of Tintin, the magazine A Suivre, and graphic novels by Pratt, Schuiten, Sokal, Boucq, ... (site in French)
• Le Lombard, publisher of Tintin magazine and comics like Blake and Mortimer, Thorgal, Ric Hochet, Yakari, with links to sites dedicated to series.
• Dargaud, publisher of Asterix, XIII, ... and co-publisher of many comics with Le Lombard (site in French)
• Les intégrales Dargaud, a website provided by Dargaud on its greatest series.
• Glénat, publisher of Titeuf and many comics (site in French)

Independent and rather reliable sources

• Bédétheque, online catalogue containing most French langange comics, and info on authors as well (in French)
• BD Oubliées, loads of info on the major French language comics magazines - essential for a publication history and for publications that didn't get into an album or only much later. (in French)
• European Comics on the Web, an overview of pointers to information on European comics that has been made available on the web.
• BD paradisio, the database on comics artists provided by the most important forum on francophone comics (in French).
• Brussels BD tour, an independant website providing biographies of Belgian and French comics artists (in French).
• Weborgers, a website about the Belgian culture providing general information about Belgian comics.
• Comicsinfo.dk, a graphic online lexicon containing a wide range of comic characters and their creators.

Independant but not truly reliable sources (wikis or wikilike)

• ToutenBD news and background. Rather reliable (in French).
• ActuaBD, most important French comics news site. Rather reliable (in French).
• Bdtheque, catalogue of comics series and authors (in French).
• BD central, with dossiers and reviews on some famous comics se.ries (in French).
• Neuvième Art, other site and current events about comics (in French).
• Stripspeciaalzaak, site of Flemish (and some Dutch) comics shops, lots of news, reviews and interviews (Dutch only).
• ZoZoLaLa, Dutch comics prozine, good interviews (site partly in English).
• Zilveren Dolfijn, kind of a Dutch language version of Bédétheque, informative but not the easiest to navigate.

Portals

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