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.
The Wikipedia article attributes the strip to Simone Veil, and that’s what their current Patreon goes by, so I guess that’s what I’d go with. I had actually stumbled across one direct interview a number of years after the project wound down, and really appreciated her opening up about it.
thank you. I got really into webcomics when i was going through my surgical processes (gotta hyperfocus on something, right?). I had an RSS feed of my 150 favorite (rough number). I always liked to have a peek behind the curtain and was rooting for the best for my authors
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.
I think that’s an iffy area, because whats the differentiation between “The image I found was already like that” and someone intentionally removing it.
Unless they admitted to it like some have, I don’t see that as easily enforceable.
Yeah, but personally I would do it on a “good faith” system. If someone accidentally put a cropped comic, and someone calls them out, if they edit it back it’s fine. But if they repeatedly post cropped comics, they get banned
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.
The Wikipedia article attributes the strip to Simone Veil, and that’s what their current Patreon goes by, so I guess that’s what I’d go with. I had actually stumbled across one direct interview a number of years after the project wound down, and really appreciated her opening up about it.
thank you. I got really into webcomics when i was going through my surgical processes (gotta hyperfocus on something, right?). I had an RSS feed of my 150 favorite (rough number). I always liked to have a peek behind the curtain and was rooting for the best for my authors
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.
This is more of a matter of not removing artist credits that were there. If it never existed then it’s fine.
I think that’s an iffy area, because whats the differentiation between “The image I found was already like that” and someone intentionally removing it.
Unless they admitted to it like some have, I don’t see that as easily enforceable.
Yeah, but personally I would do it on a “good faith” system. If someone accidentally put a cropped comic, and someone calls them out, if they edit it back it’s fine. But if they repeatedly post cropped comics, they get banned