As you can see, "unknown / d1" is not on that list. Which means there are potentially other "unknown" creators not on that list. So how does one find all "unknown" creators on Inducks?
On a different note, what is the rationale for certain European comic strips to be indexed as stories instead of comic strips? I tried on Inducks to change D/D 2005-029, D/D 2006-018, D/D 2007-023 and D/D 2008-003 from being indexed as stories to be indexed as comic strips but I got the following response: "They are indexed as stories in strip format. As for "D productions", we don't distinguish between comic-book stories and newspaper strips"
But those four are clearly comic strips! They were first published as comic strips just like the Gottfredson Mickey strips and UNLIKE for example Barks' "Donald Duck's Atom Bomb" which is correctly indexed as a comic with 1 row per page as that's how it was first published. The fact that several European comic strips are not indexed as comic strips is pretty confusing.
In the database, the term "newspaper strip" is a possible value for the *page layout* field. We have a separate field which indicates the origin/producer of a story (list here: inducks.org/comp.php?mode=6) among which are "Daily strips (US)" and "Sunday pages (US)", for the US, while "Denmark" refers to D-coded items including the items you mention.
Now, "newspaper strips" in a page layout field is a bit misleading. The reason we have that is that KFS newspaper strips were not all published in the same layout, but in a variety of format, depending on the newspaper. So there is not a single originally-intended layout. That's the only thing it means. If an item is published in a journal, as a strip, and only in that journal, it has a well-defined page layout so we don't use "newspaper strip" here.
Indexing a sequence of Sunday pages as a single story becomes impractical when most of the parts are published alone (many reprints of a Sunday page would then become an "incomplete reprint" of a story). So normally we index each part individually and not the whole sequence when each part "works alone".
I know this is arbitrary in some cases, but the best criterion we have is whether publishers use to reprint Sunday pages individually or the whole sequence.
cacou Years ago in another thread you posted the 10 characters with highest number of appearances according to Inducks. How did you get that list? How could I get a list of the top 100, maybe even top 200 or 500 characters with highest number of appearances according to Inducks?
I can find the number of appearances by creators by clicking on the "Statistics" tab on any creator's page, but could not find the grand total number of appearances.
caballero For the statistics you mention and other special questions (like the biggest gap in character appearances) I'm running custom SQL queries directly on the Inducks database. You can't find any possible statistic on the web site obviously, but Inducks is a relational database that you can query. For this you need to download all data, install a SQL database server and query it from there.
By the way, regarding my answer on the page layout field for newspaper strips, I was told that the main reason is that when a strip is printed in a newspaper, it is very hard to determine which part of the newspaper page it takes. Even the same strip layout, printed in different newspapers, would have a different "page count". To avoid all this mess, we came up with a special value for newspaper strips.
The book was first published in 1997 and the cover was drawn by Ulrich Schröder, based on an idea by Christof Eiden. As far as I know, the inside contains no comics, only text and drawings of characters taken from Carl Barks comics, but I think that's a great cover and deserves to be indexed.
cacou There are 4 comics by Marco Nucci and Casty that are connected but the connection is not mentioned on the Inducks pages of those 4 comics. I added the following note to Coazilla around a week ago: "I TL 3446-1P should be marked as a sequel to I TL 3429-1P, and I TL 3478-1P should be marked as a sequel to I TL 3446-1P. Furthermore, I TL 3447-4 should be marked as a spin-off to I TL 3446-1P."
To which someone replied with: "There are already the [xref] for those stories as "quote" and "crossover"." ...and marked as "solved".
What does "[xref]" mean? There are certainly still no mention of the fact that these 4 comics are connected on their individual Inducks pages.
cacou There are 4 comics by Marco Nucci and Casty that are connected but the connection is not mentioned on the Inducks pages of those 4 comics. I added the following note to Coazilla around a week ago: "I TL 3446-1P should be marked as a sequel to I TL 3429-1P, and I TL 3478-1P should be marked as a sequel to I TL 3446-1P. Furthermore, I TL 3447-4 should be marked as a spin-off to I TL 3446-1P."
To which someone replied with: "There are already the [xref] for those stories as "quote" and "crossover"." ...and marked as "solved".
What does "[xref]" mean? There are certainly still no mention of the fact that these 4 comics are connected on their individual Inducks pages.
[xref] is the tag that Inducks uses to link up items that are related. For example the covers illustrating a specific story, or the stories based on a movie, etc. It appears at the top of the COA page, with the text "Referred to" and a link. In this case the stories already have an [xref], so the link you suggest is already defined.
However I noticed that these xref do not appear in the COA page (eg. I TL 3446-1P) while others xref do (e.g. the one to the articles). Probably it is because the stories (eg. I TL 3446-1P) are in reality "superstories" created from the episodes and the [xref] was created in the substory.
The "inheritance" protocol between substories and superstories is quite complex, and differs for different production.
cacou There are 4 comics by Marco Nucci and Casty that are connected but the connection is not mentioned on the Inducks pages of those 4 comics. I added the following note to Coazilla around a week ago: "I TL 3446-1P should be marked as a sequel to I TL 3429-1P, and I TL 3478-1P should be marked as a sequel to I TL 3446-1P. Furthermore, I TL 3447-4 should be marked as a spin-off to I TL 3446-1P."
To which someone replied with: "There are already the [xref] for those stories as "quote" and "crossover"." ...and marked as "solved".
What does "[xref]" mean? There are certainly still no mention of the fact that these 4 comics are connected on their individual Inducks pages.
[xref] is the tag that Inducks uses to link up items that are related. For example the covers illustrating a specific story, or the stories based on a movie, etc. It appears at the top of the COA page, with the text "Referred to" and a link. In this case the stories already have an [xref], so the link you suggest is already defined.
However I noticed that these xref do not appear in the COA page (eg. I TL 3446-1P) while others xref do (e.g. the one to the articles). Probably it is because the stories (eg. I TL 3446-1P) are in reality "superstories" created from the episodes and the [xref] was created in the substory.
The "inheritance" protocol between substories and superstories is quite complex, and differs for different production.
TLDR: I believe a database issue.
Thank you! So someone added the [xref] to the pages of those comics but incorrectly? For example, on this page it is visible that that comic is a sequel to another story. "Refers to I TL 3130-1P (Tutto questo accadrà ieri) (sequel)". Even though that comic is a "superstory" too, made up of six parts/episodes.
The difference between the two is that in the case of I TL 3280-6P all substories point to I TL 3130-1P whereas for I TL 3446-1P only the first substory points to I TL 3429-1P. Our software does not create an xref in the case of I TL 3446-1P. I've asked that we treat the former case differently, so generating an xref for the superstory. To check if my hypothesis is correct I have added xrefs to all substories of I TL 3446-1P; let's see tomorrow if the website has changed.
The problem is that we use slightly different rules for the Italian index, in particular the existence of substories which make things very complex (to the point I am not even sure what's going on).