Anthology comics

[dan200]

I am wondering how this standard would propose to handle British comics such as 2000 AD, The Beano, and Sonic the Comic, which are generally published in an anthology style where each physical issue contains parts of multiple separate series.

For example, an average issue of 2000AD might contains:

1. A contents page
2. Part 12 of a ongoing 20-part "Judge Dredd" story.
3. Part 2 or a ongoing 6-part story "Rogue Trooper" story.
4. A single part "Future Shock" story in it's entirety.
5. A one-off original story that's not part of any established series.
6. A letters page .

A reader with a collection of 2000AD back issues may wish to read the complete issues back-to-back, but they're equally likely to just want to read a particular Judge Dredd storyline without seeing all the other stuff which was included in the same issues.

Right now, as the proposed data model seems to assume that each "Book" contains only a single part of a single series. It would be nice if the metadata was capable of expressing this anthology structure, so that comic book reading software was able to extract and recombine stories as the reader likes.

[gotson]

Hi, this is similar to #21, I suggested an approach used by BookBrainz, which would reference Work within books.

In your case, there would be multiple Work pieces inside the same 2000AD issue. Those Work pieces could also be referenced in other issues, have their own authors, etc.