I was about to make a comic about this tonight lol
(I know it goes against the one comic per week limit but it seems like nobody is respecting it, yet respecting not spamming)
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I would say it'll catch people who find a comic already stripped of attribution and want to reshare it, but that's fine - the onus of fixing that / properly sourcing it should be on the one (re)sharing it.
I'm guessing there must be a reverse image search API. Maybe making an attribution bot is possible. Just a thought.
I would go a step further and suggest that only links to official sources are allowed. But I know that would be very unpopular.
Obviously I use and enjoy this community, but we could be contributing more traffic to their official sources. I cannot imagine more than a tiny fraction of a percent of people will see a comic image posted here and then go seek out the artist's official sources.
I have a difficult one: the comic is Pictures for Sad Children. It doesn’t have a signature. It got nuked off the web when the creator had a breakdown (I think). The creator disappeared and has since transitioned, so attributing it to the then-published name would be deadnaming someone. How should it be attributed?
that's a tough one. I miss PfSD. I loved that one. Saved my favorite strips when they'd pop up. I didn't know the author transitioned. I'd attribute it as Pictures for Sad Children by [name, not deadname], but honestly i'd ask the author what they'd like if i could get in touch.
you're still the same person under there, and were back then, just people didn't know you by that name is how i view it.
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Art by Current Name (formally known as Dead Name) would be my best guess
I mean I'd just ignore the dead name but I am not trans, I am probably not the right person to ask. The most right person to ask is the artist, the next right person to ask is the trans community in general.
One artist's opinion: I think for historical artistic works, it's appropriate to use the name the artist used when the work was created, especially if the signature is part of the work. If an artist rereleases art under a new name, that attribution would be preferred (assuming it is actually them and not a ripoff, not sure how to manage that). Old works could still be reposted but with an annotation.
After a quick search I came across the Grand Comics Database which doesn't cover deadnames specifically, but it does have a protocol for handling pseudonyms. I am partial to the term "Ghost name". I might even start using it myself instead of deadname, because they do tend to linger.
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Seconded.
I like it.
I support this.
Shut up and take my money
On a jabberchat I run, I go one step further and add all XMP data I can find, so fans can not only find the artist, timestamp, etc., but they can also request commissions if open from the <Copyright> value.
On a jabberchat I run
A what?
spoiler
(I know what XMPP is; I just think "jabberchat" has a funny similarity to Jabberjaw.)