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• Resource Type/Type
  • Image (DCMI Type Terms)
• Genre
  • comic strips (Getty AAT) and when published in newspaper, add secondary genre term of "newspapers" (Getty AAT)
• Medium (= Migrate Materials terms)
  
  • Enter individual terms according to Getty AAT, e.g. "ink", "paper", "colored pencil", or local terms when necessary, e.g. "non-photo pencil" (https://www.dickblick.com/products/staedtler-non-photo-pencil/) for potential submission to Getty. Do not include specific colors unless relevant.
• Version - Local CV
  • original art - broader term for roughs, pencils, and inks when we don't know which version the comic strip is.
  • tear sheets - A page that can be or has been removed from a newspaper, magazine, or book for use separately. In contrast to Getty AAT term (http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300112003), our tear sheets are not related to advertising. Tear sheet is usually a whole page.
  • pencils - Pencils are a clean, preparatory drawings to ink over; an intermediary clean up and development stage of the comics page. While many artists use traditional wood pencils, others prefer mechanical pencils or drafting leads. Sometimes another sheet is put over the original drawing to be inked on preserving the original drawing.
  • proofs - Proof sheets were the means by which syndicates provided newspapers with black-and-white line art for the reproduction of strips (which they arranged to have colored in the case of Sunday strips). Typically each sheet will have either six daily strips of a given title or one Sunday strip. Proof sheets are off-set printed and are not original art.
  • roughs - Preliminary unfinished sketches with lack of detail in the comics creation process.
  • inks
  • clippings - A part of a tear sheet.
  • prints - If art prints that are mass-produced.
  • mechanical reproduction* - Mass reproduction of identical copies of original works. [Not artist's proof or numbered prints] Copies of art images, art objects, decorative arts, or other valued images or objects, made without intent to deceive; with regard to art images, it includes photographic reproductions. Example: poster. Tear sheet may be narrower term.
    
• Subject
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings or FAST Subject Headings - Use related to "aboutness" and characters
• Time Period (Topic)
  • Local CV for decades, e.g. "1930s (1930-1939)"
• Place (Topic)
  • Library of Congress Names, Library of Congress Subject Headings or FAST Subject Headings
• Syndicate - Local CV?
  • King Features Syndicate

Title Creation

A flowchart has Flowcharts have been created for assigning titles to comic strips. Click on thumbnail below for a full-page PDF of this flowchart.Image RemovedRefer to the Comic Strip Titles Flowcharts PDF.

Lifecycle of Comic Strip Creation (Version)

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