Format
Required field
- This is a single field with five elements. The five elements are separated by a semi-colon.
- 1) Color (Color, 4 Color, Painted, 2 Color, Black and White) SHOULD THIS BE TWO FIELDS, ONE FOR COVER, ONE FOR INTERIOR?
- 2) Dimensions (Standard Golden Age US, Standard Silver Age US, Standard Modern US; Digest; Tabloid, A3, A4, A5, 8.5" x 11", 21cm x 28cm)
- 3) Paper Stock (Newsprint, Mando, Baxter)
- 4) Binding (Stapled, Saddle-stitched, Bound, Squarebound, Hardcover, Tradepaperback)
- 5) Publishing Format (On-Going Series, Limited Series, Miniseries, Maxiseries One-Shot, Graphic Novel)
- Since you may not know all five elements, or they may change over the run of the series, there is some flexibility to this field.
- Page counts do not belong in this field.
- Examples:
Color; Standard Modern Age US; Newsprint; Saddle-Stitched; On-Going Series Color; Standard Golden Age, Silver Age, and Modern Age US Black and White; Digest; Squarebound; Limited Series
(end of definition)
Unapproved definition brought over from re-write (July 14, 2008)
Comment: Tradepaperback should likely be two words "Trade Paperback" as this is a more common usage. For publishing frequency, Ralf suggested the following: 1) one-shot - intended as a standalone publication 2) limited series - intended as a finite series 3) ongoing series - intended as an open-ended series with no set endpoint 4) ongoing series [until MM/YYYY] - a formerly ongoing series that has ceased publication
Any other special cases should be listed in the series notes field. Special cases would be things like "started as a limited series and became ongoing", "started referring to #75 as the final early on", "was supposed to be ongoing, but was canceled after one issue", etc.