Talk:Barack Obama in comics

Wall Street Journal piece
The Wall Street Journal just ran a piece on Obama comics; I feel adding it myself as a reference or external link may run into WP:COI, but I think it should be included either as a reference or external link, as it helps to establish notability. Nat Gertler (talk) 18:20, 13 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the tip! I've added it as a reference, which is something the article sorely needed. Incidentally, I don't think there would have been a conflict of interest if you had added it yourself. After all, the WSJ article doesn't mention you. Cheers, GentlemanGhost (talk) 19:51, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Barack the Barbarian
This should probably be mentioned:

http://devilsdue.net/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=760&category_id=94&manufacturer_id=0&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=51

It's tough to find extensive information about it online, though. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.96.235.0 (talk) 16:24, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

The Real World
As far as I understand, Barack Obama can not be counted as a "character". He's just a real life person making frequent guest appearances because of his high public acknowledgement. For those guest appearences to become a proper fictional character based on a real person, it's needed more than that. First, it's needed to be done on a regular basis, it must be a steady character of a given publication. And second, it should have its own development as character (personality, motivations, relations with the other characters, etc.). Good examples of this may be Richard Nixon in Futurama, or Julius Caesar in Asterix.

As for this article, I will remove the infobox. There's nothing to savage from it: "multiple" publishers, redundant full name, "team afiliations" (what?), "Abilities" (skills of the real man described as if they were "superpowers" or something like that). And the worst, automatic categorization in "Marvel Comics characters". MBelgrano (talk) 03:00, 28 August 2010 (UTC)


 * I don't see the problem - you can have characters based on real people (there are hundreds of them) without it having to be biographical and yet their actions are indeed fictional (so they are fictional characters). It just happens that the comic book representation of Obama has garnered enough attention to make it notable in its own right. Hence I oppose the merge, the infobox I'm not bothered about (although I don't see any reason to remove it either). (Emperor (talk) 21:55, 6 September 2010 (UTC))
 * I've removed the merge banner but there were two objections so at best this is no consensus.
 * I will say again though that we are dealing with fictional characters based on a real person, so the infobox is valid. (Emperor (talk) 16:00, 22 January 2011 (UTC))


 * Before I raise any point, let me put up my WP:COI flag - I am the writer and publisher of the first appearance of Obama in comics. Having said that, Obama appearing in comics has gotten its own separate coverage, not only in the specialty press like Wizard magazine, but also in mainstream news sources. As such, it seems to me that it the merger is not needed. --Nat Gertler (talk) 22:24, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Proper credit
Could the sentence "Obama made his first appearance as a comic book character in July 2007 in Licensable BearTM No. 4 by Nat Gertler, where he appeared as a U.S. Senator" be changed to have "by Nat Gertler and Lonny Chant"? While there are Licensable BearTM stories that I've done by myself, Chant was the artist on this (as reflected later in the chart) and I would not want to be seen as stealing credit from him. --Nat Gertler (talk) 06:00, 19 March 2016 (UTC)

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List order
For some reason, in the otherwise-by-date list of appearances, the Licensable BearTM entry is current several years out of place, rather than up in 2007 where it belongs. Could someone correct that? (I have a conflict of interest, as the writer/publisher of that story.) --Nat Gertler (talk) 17:37, 21 September 2017 (UTC)