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William Steel

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  1. The Sandman: King of Dreams should be moved to Books. Alisa Kwitney recounts her experiences and behind-the-scenes stories as a member of the series' editorial team. It also includes quotes from Neil Gaiman and previously unpublished illustrations. I submitted all three printings under Books as well as putting Neil in the Introduction field and Mike Dringenberg in the cover artist field.

  2. I submitted Confabulation: An Anecdotal Autobiography under Books. It is arranged encyclopedically with each entry being an anecdote of a person, title or event. There are pages reprinted but no complete stories. 

  3. I purchased and X-Men Annual #1 today which chapter 7 of the Contest of Chaos story and could not find it entered (searched by barcode). Then I went to the most recent X-Men series (6th) and found an Annual #1 already entered (2/1/2023) with "Radiant" as the storyline. The cover and indicia say Annual #1 but with a November cover date. So where and how should I enter this?

  4. I noticed last week that CB added Piers Anthony's novels On a Pale Horse, Bearing an Hourglass, etc. as separate entries instead of under the series banner Incarnations of Immortality. I see the link for the series, but I am curious why not combing them together. And should this be the standard for similar series.

  5. I bought a copy this week, but neither it nor its variants have been added to CB. I know that the original series was moved to magazines. This however, is a collection of six comic stories about superheroes celebrating sixty years of the Marvel Age of Comics. So any suggestions how should I enter this?

  6. Ok, so I downloaded the latest software update (build 2640) and then the content update. Had an error popup again and didn't finish. The next day I did the content update through Sidekick without any errors (can never tell with Sidekick...); but the log file only shows comic books updating, no other media. And no mention of covers although I think I did get some of them. I see there is now build 2665, but I'll wait until the end of the week to install and see what happens then.

  7. When I would submit larger covers with previous versions of CB, I would get a prompt saying " You have X covers that are new or larger than ComicBase has on file. Would you like to submit them?". And then a thank you popup once the covers uploaded. CB2022 doesn't do this. I get a popup without knowing the number of covers that are new/larger and I don't know when the process is done. I know upload speeds are faster these days. But at the least, could you please have the thank you popup appear the same way it does when it is just regular data? Then I know I can move on to whatever I need to do in CB.

     

    Thanks

  8. Randall J. Paske said:

    I'm wondering if newspapers could be spun off to their own section, separate from the Magazines section. As I mentioned earlier, I don't want to exclude magazines entirely. I would, however, exclude newspapers if I could.

    I can see where tracking all of that stuff in Human Computing's master database might be worthwhile for them, but I doubt many of us want to house a mega-database on our own systems. As ComicBase grows and expands well beyond comics, there may be a need to devise more ways for users to select the portions that meet their needs and exclude those that don't. I've got plenty of magazines related to comics and entertainment, but I don't need a newspaper index. I've got plenty of books, but I don't need an index of romance paperbacks or theological volumes.

     

    I second this, if for the only reason that a newspapers database would potentially be larger than all other media combined. Think about, every city has had at least one newspaper at one time or another. Some of the larger cities had multiple ones concurrently and have a publishing history of hundreds of years, daily and weekly.

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