Post by drakeborough on Jan 20, 2017 11:26:54 GMT
This surprised me: I knew some editors waited too many years to credit the writers and artists, but I didn't realize that in 2017 some editors would still refuse to credit them.
Since it would be off-topic to continue the discussion in the other thread, I'm opening a new one to ask this question: which countries still refuse to credit the authors? And as for countries that do credit them, when did the start?
I'll answer part of my own question by saying that in Italy creators started getting credits in 1988, the same year The Walt Disney Company Italia got the licence from Arnoldo Mondadori Editore. Originally it was just the first letter of the given name plus the surname, but since 1990 the given name is written in its entirety. Before 1988 there was only a special case: in Mickey's Inferno (1949) most panels of the story have lines of poetry, and the first panel says "verseggiatura di G. Martina" ("verses by G. Martina"); however, Martina was not credited for writing the story, nor was Bioletto for drawing it.
How about other countries?