Passed Proposals

This is a list of past proposals that have passed following discussion in gcd-policy. You can also see the list of Current Proposals and the list of Unsuccesful Proposals.

Adding 'autobiography' to the genre list

proposed on 3. March 2010
one reminder on 8. March 2010
passed on 17. March 2010

The reason for this is that autobiography (or autobiographical) is an easily defined and specific genre of creators producing comics about their own lives. The current alternative 'bio' is not as precise. I'd include Harvey Pekar and Dennis Eichhorn in the category, despite their not actually drawing the comics themselves. Pekar has shown himself producing layouts in his stories, if that helps convince people.

In a list of categories if one merges the likes of superhero and super- hero and discounts foreign language genre categories, 'autobiography' is already among the top 30 used genres, with over 1200 uses.

Ten minutes thought has produced the following comics that fall exclusively into the genre:

Peep Show, Collier's, Melody, American Splendor, Real Stuff, Real Smut, Real Schmuck, Real Life, Real Girl, Voyeuse, the Fantagraphics series about sexual experiences the title of which I can't bring to mind at the moment, Binky Brown, Streetwise, Last Days In Vietnam, The Dreamer, A Sailor's Story, Get A Life, Alec, Total Sell Out, Assume Nothing, Our Cancer Year, Confessions of a Cereal Eater, Yahoo, Life Is Cheap, Fortune And Glory, Fun Home, Nowhere, A Child's Life, The Bakers, Epileptic, Palestine, Fax From Sarajevo, Peter Kuper's ComicsTrips, A Few Perfect Hours, Tuesday, We Are On Our Own, Lewis Trondheim's diary book, Self-Loathing Comics, My Troubles With Women, Life Under Sanctions

These all have stories that fall into the genre

Weirdo, Jizz, Palookaville, 9-11, Dirty Plotte, Wimmin's Comix, Keyhole, Tomato, Maus (partially), Hup, Naughty Bits.

To save you counting, that's over 50 titles, and I reckon that's more than enough to warrant a genre classification.

Basic proposal structure

proposed on 24.02.2010 and passed two weeks later

• An item may be proposed for "formal" consideration by the gcd-policy list by sending an email prefixed with PROPOSAL: to the list
  • "formal" consideration means that the wording is intended for consideration as the exact wording of a rule/policy/etc.
  • Proposals should generally arise from discussions in some way, although this is not required.
• A proposal may be withdrawn by its originator by replying to the thread and prefixing the subject line with WITHDRAWN:
  • For example: "WITHDRAWN: PROPOSAL: Basic proposal structure"
• A proposal may be amended by its originator by replying to the thread and prefixing the subject line with AMENDED:
  • This has exactly the same effect as withdrawing a proposal and resubmitting a new proposal.
• A proposal should focus on one topic. Multiple proposals should be made if it is reasonable for the two proposals to pass or fail independently.

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