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Re: [school-discuss] Comics

What's wrong with 'new art and new dialog, potentialy changing the originally "released" version's meaning'? I agree that a comic can get to a point where any further revision may diminish the quality in many/most people's eyes. But rarely is that consensus 100%. I would caution against trying to have absolute control over the 'final product'. It feels a bit like musicians asserting their copyright to prevent their songs from being used to create other 'mashups'. Comics are a form of culture, which is not static, is constantly mixing and remixing; all creation is derivative. Perhaps there could be a way to branch or fork a comic, so that, say, even if a consensus forms that version 2.14 of Matthew's sysadmin comic is the best form, another person can come along and use that material to create a new comic--which may be better or worse than the previous; you never know beforehand--even if modifiying the original only slightly; the 'original' would still exist and people can still see that. This is a wiki afterall. 

Peter

Malc wrote:



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From: Matthew W. Ross


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    I think the most important part of this idea is that, somehow, a "Finalized" comic strip would have to be set, where no further enhancements can be made. Otherwise, old comics will be updated with new art and new dialog, potentialy changing the originally "released" version's meaning.

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[this reminds me of something... I wonder what it could be?!]


This is a good point, speaking as an old hack (as in journalism), there's nothing like a deadline, without which, take it from me, there would be no newspapers. So to have a,say, twice a month issue - deadlines accordingly, would be productive. And as Douglas Adams is oft quoted, "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by".

Malc




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