Template:Infobox Asian Comic Series
If more than one genre is appropriate, adding
|multigenre = y
will allow for the genres to all show in the infobox, but the alphabetically first genre will need to use first
to add it and not have ", " precede the text.The currently supported genres are listed here.
- author lists the author or authors of the series.
- illustrator lists artist(s) that provide the illustrations for the series. This is only used in cases where the illustrator(s) are not the same as the author(s).
- All of the publisher fields follow a convention of including {{Flag icon}} using the country of origin preceding the publisher(s).
- publisher_en lists the publishers of English language editions of the series.
- publisher_other lists publishers of non-English language editions of the series. This does not include the original publisher.
- Note: The list publisher_other generates will be in a "pull down" list in the infobox, so they will not be initially visible.
- demographic lists the target audience of the series. Since the articles using this template are not Japanese publications, please do not use Japanese terms in this field.
- The magazine is where the series was first published. This field also follows the convention of using {{Flag icon}}.
- first and last are the years when the series started and ended. last is optional. Months associated with each year should be specified using firstmo and lastmo.
- volumes is the number of volumes the series has been collected into.
- chapter_list is the list section of the article, or the separate list article, detailing the collected volumes. This creates a link to that section or article. The link will show as the contents of chapter_list unless something is entered at volume.
- related is the type(s) of other media adaptations of the series.
- content is a list of the adaptations by title.
- altcat
- "Star Trek comics" will set the Adventure and Sci-fi genres, and add Star Trek to the adapatations
- "Oz comics" will set the Fantasy genre, and add The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to the adapatations
Original English manga (OEL manga)
Usage (OEL)
{{Infobox original English manga
| name =
| image = <!-- file name format only -->
| image_size = <!-- default 250 -->
| caption =
| alt =
| genre =
| author =
| illustrator =
| publisher =
| publisher_other =
| demographic = <!-- non-Japanese demographic -->
| magazine =
| first =
| firstmo =
| last =
| lastmo =
| volumes =
| chapter_list =
| related =
| content =
| altcat =
| OEL = Y
}}
OEL specific parameter notes
- OEL is a logical setting that lets the template know it is being applied to an article on an original English language manga title.
- publisher_en should not be used in this configuration since the title will have been originally published in English.
Genre list
This is a list of the logical fields the template currently supports for genre.
|Adventure=y |
|AltHistory=y |
|Anarch=y |
|Anthology=y |
|Anthro=y
|
|Biopunk=y |
|Christian=y |
|Crime=y |
|Cyberpunk=y |
|Detective=y
|
|Erotic=y |
|Fantasy=y |
|Historical=y |
|Horror=y |
|Humor=y
|
|Magic=y |
|MArts=y |
|Mystery=y |
|Myth=y |
|Office=y
|
|Philosophy=y |
|Politico=y |
|PostApoc=y |
|Psych=y |
|Romance=y
|
|SciFi=y |
|School=y |
|Sport=y |
|Spy=y |
|Steampunk=y
|
|Superhero=y |
|Swash=y |
|TechnoThril=y |
|Thrill=y |
|Vampire=y
|
|War=y |
|Werewolf=y |
|Western=y |
|Zombie=y
|
Anthro – for Anthropomorphic – can be refined for funny animal and furry comics:
- For funny animals use "funny" or "funny-first" instead of "y" or "first"
- For furry comics use "furry" or "furry-first" instead of "y" or "first"
Some of these are mutually exclusive based on subgrenre:
- Action-adventure (Adventure) is the parent of — Martial arts (MArts), Spy, Superhero, Swashbuckler(Swash), and War
- Crime is the parent of — Detective and Mystery
- Cyberpunk is the parent of — Biopunk and Steampunk
- Historical is the parent of — Alternate history (AltHistory)
- Horror is the parent of — Vampire, Werewolf, and Zombie
- Science Fiction (SciFi) is the parent of — Cyberpunk and Post-apocalyptic (PostApoc)
- Thriller (Thrill) is the parent of — Spy
In some cases, two or more of the tags will post a combined genre to the infobox. These include:
- Comic fantasy — Fantasy and Humor
- Crime-thriller — Crime and Thriller (Thrill)
- Comic science fiction — Humor and Science Fiction (SciFi)
- Dark fantasy — Fantasy and Horror
- Erotic fantasy — Erotic and Fantasy
- Erotic horror — Erotic and Horror
- Gothic science fiction — Horror and Science Fiction (SciFi)
- Historical fantasy — Fantasy and Historical
- Historical romance — Historical and Romance
- Military science fiction — Science Fiction (SciFi) and War
- Psychological-thriller — Psychological (Psych) and Thriller (Thrill)
- Romantic comedy — Humor and Romance
- Romantic fantasy — Fantasy and Romance
- Science fantasy — Fantasy and Science Fiction (SciFi)
- Science fiction Western — Science Fiction (SciFi) and Western
- Weird West — Horror and Western
- Wuxia — Fantasy, Historical, and Martial arts (MArts) in cases where "Chinese" can be selected as the original language.
Some series or franchise specific categories exists as subcategories for a particular genre. To avoid double categorization, the following "series" tags can be used:
Bond to replace Spy James Bond comics |
Chthulu to replace Horror Chthulu Mythos comics |
LoEG to replace AltHistory and Steampunk The League of Extraordinary Gentalmen |
WotW to replace Steampunk War of the Worlds comics |
Tracking categories
- Category:Asian comic pop (233)
- Category:Comics infobox image less alt text (2,511)
- Category:Comics infobox image less caption (1,171)
- Category:Comics infobox with unneeded imagesize (130)
- Category:Comics infobox without image (3,149)
- Category:Pages using infobox Asian comic series with genre (109)
- Category:Misplaced comics infoboxes (283)
- Category:Comics templates parameter noimage in use (137)
- Category:Redundant infobox title param (85)