Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/Comic strips work group

First, an important note for everyone to remember:

A few Wikipedians have gotten together to make some suggestions about how we might organize data in articles about comic strips. The notes below were initially based on those for Wikipedia:WikiProject Television These are only suggestions, things to give you focus and to get you going, and you shouldn't feel obligated in the least to follow them. But if you don't know what to write or where to begin, following the below guidelines may be helpful. Mainly, we just want you to write articles!

Title

WikiProject Comic strips

Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to normalize the standards for all the comic strip articles in Wikipedia - in particular, newspaper strips.

Similarily, editors, artists or publishers associated with many different comic strips can have a separate page from the stories. Authors who are associated with one comic (e.g. Scott Adams and Dilbert) may not need a separate page.

Parentage

The parent of this WikiProject is the WikiProject Comics.

Descendant Wikiprojects

No descendant WikiProjects have been defined.

Similar Wikiprojects

The similar WikiProjects are WikiProject Webcomics.

Participants

• Dfarmer
• Janet6
• BayBoy
• Bagel7
• Wootking
• Badbilltucker
• VMAAXT

Structure

Introduction contains premise, basic information. Include author, dates, publisher.

Characters

Character, general description, usually contains profession, habits, psychological; character may be explained more indepth later.

Examples:

• Dilbert is the main character in the comic strip. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with an Electrical Engineering diploma and is an engineer.
• Garfield: fat orange cat with distinctive black stripes and an attitude. He hates Mondays (not applicable if it's also his birthday), loves to eat and sleep (both to amazing amounts), watch TV, and play jokes on Jon and Odie.
• Patricia "Peppermint Patty" Reichardt is a fictional character featured in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts. She is one of a small group in the strip who live across town from Charlie Brown and his school friends.

Plot

This section should only be relatively brief, only discussing important plot elements that steered the course of characters lives, or the course of the strip, or at least were popular with audiences (e.g. ??).

For story arcs where 500 words or more can be written, without stretching things out, separate articles may be appropriate.

Impact of comic strip on society

If the strip created a craze, popularized a word (example?) (Tubular,Awesome,Dude-TMNT?), revolutionized the medium (example?), or something else (example?).

Critical Reviews

Preferably from major syndicates (Associated Press, REUTERS, Canadian Press) and major newspapers (USA Today, The Toronto Star, The Times [London]) and major periodicals (TIME), these quotes can either critique the strip, or comment on its impact. They should not just be descriptions of the strip, and preferably should not exceed three or so sentences.

Production Notes

Any behind the scenes information is encouraged.