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luisedgarf from Mexico Since: May, 2009 Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
#1: Mar 19th 2018 at 4:10:38 PM

I have a questiong I want to ask to the moderators or anyone versed on the working of TV Tropes:

I want to include tropes on an Albedo: Erma Felna EDF fanzine called "Refractions", who was published in the 90s with the original author's permission and he collaborated with some stories as well, but I have a question about what genre should be included:

The fanzine is mostly text, since it includes alternative stories, fan-fics and novellas, but it also includes some comics. In this case, which section should that go in? Literature, Comic Book or Fanfic?

crazysamaritan NaNo 4328 / 50,000 from Lupin III Since: Apr, 2010
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#2: Mar 19th 2018 at 5:50:50 PM

None of the above! You need to use the Magazine namespace, and index under Magazines.

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luisedgarf from Mexico Since: May, 2009 Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
#3: Mar 19th 2018 at 6:17:08 PM

Are you sure? Since the fanzine is mostly text, just to tell you.

Lymantria Tyrannoraptoran Reptiliomorph from Toronto Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Historians will say we were good friends.
luisedgarf from Mexico Since: May, 2009 Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
#5: Mar 19th 2018 at 7:44:16 PM

OK, thanks for the help.

crazysamaritan NaNo 4328 / 50,000 from Lupin III Since: Apr, 2010
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#6: Mar 19th 2018 at 9:06:03 PM

A number of magazines were primarily text-based. The very first magazine listed in the index is Amazing Stories, which was a Science Fiction publication. The individual works released in the magazine tended to be in the Short Story format, so they'd be included in the Literature namespace and use quotes instead of italics for emphasis.

These magazines were printed on cheaply pulped paper rather than expensive glossy paper like most grocery store magazines, and are responsible for both Pulp Magazine and "pulp fiction" genres. Sherlock Holmes is from the same pedigree: the first story was published in The Strand Magazine.

So, yes; magazine is a medium where drawings, photos, and text collide, featuring primarily short works. The individual works may be of a different medium, but Magazine is a unique format that cannot be classified as a comic or literature format.

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