Ben,
You get me confused here.
I'm not an expert on this kind of material, but I would have thought
that e.g. for the early Asterix books both Albert Uderzo and René
Goscinny are to be seen as creators in the sense of RDA 19.2: "Persons,
families, or corporate bodies jointly responsible for the creation of a
work (...) may perform different roles (e.g., as in a collaboration
between a composer and a lyricist)." In a joint effort, one of them
provided the pictures, the other the text. I think this corresponds to
21.24 "Collaboration between artist and writer" in AACR2.
But then the relationship designator "illustrator" seems to be not
applicable for somebody like Uderzo, because it is for a contributor,
not for a creator. This also fits in with the definition of illustrator
as somebody "supplementing the primary content with drawings, diagrams,
photographs, etc." So, this seems to be about the cases which used to be
covered in AACR2 21.11A1.
I conclude that the only possible relationship designator for Uderzo
listed in the Appendix would be "artist".
This is really rather crude. I also wonder about the relationship
designator for somebody like Goscinny. The only possible term from the
Appendix seems to be "author", but the explanation doesn't really fit: A
person etc. "responsible for creating a work that is primarily textual
in content". Well, the Asterix books are certainly not "primarily
textual in content".
Heidrun
Benjamin A Abrahamse wrote:
Does anyone happen to know if there is work being done to expand the
RDA relationship vocabulary to account for specific roles associated
with the illustration of comic books and graphic novels?
Under the current RDA relators, it would seem the following roles
(which are considered discrete enough to warrant separate mention on
the statements of responsibility of comic books and graphic novels)
all fit under the category of "illustrator":
artist
inker
colorist (or, color artist)
letterer
Also, I've noticed that often "cover artist" gets separate mention,
though I think they would still be considered an illustrator.
--Ben
Benjamin Abrahamse
Cataloging Coordinator
Acquisitions, Metadata and Enterprise Systems
MIT Libraries
617-253-7137
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Stuttgart Media University
Faculty of Information and Communication
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