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WELCOME TO REC.ARTS.COMICS (part 5 of 7: ftp resources)
written by lots of different people
edited by Paul A. Estin 1990-1993
          Tom Galloway  1993-present
[last update: 4/10/94]

5. FTP sites containing comics related files.

Many resources are available at different sites on the net via a mechanism
called FTP (for File Transfer Protocol). If your system is fully on the
Internet, use your local help command to get information about how to use
FTP to access the files listed in this post. If your system is not fully on
the Internet, it is still possible to access these files via email.

Two addresses which provide FTP by email access are [e-mail]
and [e-mail] FTP commands should be placed in the body of
your message to these addresses. Note that a human will not read your
messages to these addresses, so don't bother putting anything other than
FTP commands for the message body.

To get a list of available commands and some information about this
service, send the following message (the decwrl address is used for demo
purposes)

    mail [e-mail]
    Subject: <return>
        help <return>
        quit <return>
        <exit mail program and send mail>

FTP Commands you should know about for getting files are as follows.
Arguments you should specify are described in <>s.

        connect <site name, such as teetot.acusd.edu>
        chdir   <directory files you want are in; only one per session>
        dir     <return a listing of the current directory's files>
        get     <name of file you want sent to you>

In general, you should use connect once, followed by a chdir, and if
retrieving files, as many gets as you have file requests. Note that some
sites limit the number of gets in a single message, usually to 10 or so.

After a while you should get a mail response similar to this:

    From: "ftpmail service on ftp-gw-1.pa.dec.com" <[e-mail]>
    To: [e-mail]
    Subject: your ftpmail request has been received

    We processed the following input from your mail message:

         <what commands you sent>

    We have entered the following request into our job queue
    as job number 746315939.01678:

The message will conclude with how many jobs are ahead of yours, and that
you should expect to get the results (i.e. your files) in a day or so.

You cannot delete an FTPmail request once sent, so be careful. Nor can you
request that only part of a file be sent. Large files will be divided up
into equal sized chunks of a set number of characters (except for the last
chunk, of course).

Gopher is another utility for getting files from remote sites. If your
system has gopher, use your local help facility to find out how to use it.
If not, just use FTPmail.

Please do not email the r.a.c. FAQ maintainer with questions about how to
FTP or gopher. I don't know how your system is set up. The appropriate
person to ask these questions of is your local system administrator. The
above information is meant to help out people who do not have FTP access
but would still like to get the information at various archive sites.
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A date in brackets, like [2/92], indicates the most recent month that an
address and file(s) were confirmed/updated as still being valid.  If a [?]
is shown, I have not had a recent confirmation... if anyone can either
confirm or deny a [?]. please email me.  Also, if anyone tries emailing one
of these addresses and gets no response, please email me and I'll try to
check it out.

I attempt to check the current status of one third of these each month.
Thus, validation dates should be at most three months ago, once we complete
the first three month cycle (which started with this post)

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Posts that all newcomers to Usenet should read before posting are:

Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on Netiquette
Rules for posting to Usenet
A Primer on How to Work With the Usenet Community
Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Usenet
Hints on writing style for Usenet
What is Usenet?

These should be available in the newsgroup news.announce.newusers, but if
not they can be obtained via FTP from rtfm.mit.edu

They are located there as the following files, all in the directory
/pub/usenet/news.announce.newusers

Emily_Postnews_Answers_Your_Questions_on_Netiquette
A_Primer_on_How_to_Work_With_the_Usenet_Community
Answers_to_Frequently_Asked_Questions_about_Usenet
Rules_for_posting_to_Usenet
Hints_on_writing_style_for_Usenet
What_is_Usenet?

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There is a major r.a.c. archive site at Ostfold Regional College in Norway.
Either gopher to gopher.dhhalden.no or FTP to ftp.dhhalden.no (158.36.33.3).
The administrator is Jon Lovstad <[e-mail]>. Please email him only
if you encounter problems with the archive; he does this as volunteer
labor. Do not ask him about general FTP matters. It is requested that the
archive not be accessed during work hours of 0800-1800 Norway time. To be
parochial for a moment, this is 0200-1400 United States and Canada Eastern
Time. To be more general, this is Greenwich + 1 time.

If you have material you'd like to be in the archive, please place it in
the /incoming directory on the root level. Then mail Jon a list of what
you've uploaded, along with a pointer as to where it belongs in the
hierarcy.

Files you should download first are 00_Full_Index, a full index of the
archive, 00_Overview, an ls -lR of the archive, and 00_Readme, usage
guidelines for the archive.

What follows is an abbreviated version of archive contents as of 10
April 1994.

/Annotations contains annotations of Ambush Bug, Asterix, Books of Magic,
Doom Patrol, and Watchmen.

/Batman has an episode guide and upcoming episodes of Batman:The Animated
Series.

/Beanworld has various information about Tales of the Beanworld, including
an interview with Larry Marder, where to find Beanworld stuff, and back
issues of Gunkldunk, the Internet Beanworld newsletter.

/Cerebus has a checklist of Cerebus appearances, annotations of Cerebus
1-13, and a timeline.

/Comics-L has back issues of the Comics-L digest.

/Disney has information of getting more Disney related files and an index
of Mickey Mouse cartoons on Laserdisc.

/FAQ has Frequently Asked Questions (and answers) about Doom, Grading
Comics, Grendel, Legion of Super-Heroes, X-Fans, Protecting Comics,
rec.arts.comics.marketplace, these Welcome to r.a.c. posts, Rogue, Sandman,
Superman, and X-Men characters, creators, and history. It also includes the
r.a.c.marketplace FAQ.

/Fanfiction has many subdirectories and contains net.fan-fiction such as
the Net.Trenchcoat.Brigade and the Legion of Net.Heroes, and contains
the FAQ for the LNH.

/Film_and_TV has episode guides for Lois & Clark and The Flash.

/Guidelines has guidelines for submitting work to Caliber, DC, Dark Horse,
Eclipse, Fantagraphics, Image, Malibu, Marvel, and Valiant.

/Misc has comments about comics collector software, Antarctic Press news
and information, an interview with Bone's Jeff Smith, Malibu's Bravura line,
CBG subscription info, the Legend creator owned line, Love and Rockets, The
MAXX mailing list, Maison Ikkoku Guidebook, Matt Howarth catalog, Peter
David's snail mail address, why Shaman's Tears was cancelled, and Suicide
Squid t-shirts.



/Reference has 1993 Comics news stories, an Alan Moore checklist, a
Bloodlines checklist, a list of comics libraries, a comics fanclubs list, an
index of comics reference lists, a comics film and tve series guide, an
index of comics related theses, how copyright works, a cover enhancement
glossary, Fantastic Four story guide, index of crossovers, index of Hard
Looks, index of horror and sci-fi comics, addresses of comics companies,
Jack Kirby checklist, Peter David checklist, Star Trek comics checklist, an
index of references to Superman in song lyrics, and an X-Men reprint guide.

/Releases has Jim Cowling's weekly list of new releases for the last few
months.

/Reviews has reviews of Comic Book Rebels, The Complete Crumb Comics, Hero
Illustrated, Saint Sinner, and the review columns Sidekick Reviews, Image
Review, Valiant Review, and McReviews

/Sandman has the Sandman FAQ.

/Software has various comics related software.

/Statistics has ordering stats for top UK comics, top US comics for several
months, publishers' market share, and the print run on some Marvel titles.
For some reason, it also has Jim Cowling's Top Ten Things Newbies Say.

/Strips has bibliographies of Calvin & Hobbes and Peanuts collections.

/Toys has a list of ToyBiz Marvel figures and a peek at the 1994 line of
same.

/Trading_Cards has nothing yet, but is open to files of checklists, print
runs, price guides, etc.

/Watchment has the Watchmen annotations.

/X-Men has the r.a.c.xbooks FAQ, Rogue FAQ a list of Marvel characters who
have appeared on the animated X-Men, the X-Men creators list, synopses of
X-Men 120-280, an X-Men timeline, a reprint guide, and a 4 part list of
dangling X-Men plotlines.

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A second major r.a.c. archive is at teetot.acusd.edu This can be reached
either by gophering to that location, or by FTPing. The root directory if
FTPing is /pub/Beelzebub/Comics

If gophering, the sequence of menu numbers/items is:
 -->  6.  Everything else that matters...
 -->  4.  Light ( and otherwise ) reading material
 -->  1.  Comic Books

If FTPing, you want to get 00list, a complete listing of available files,
and 00newlist, new files recently added to the archive.

The following files are there. They are listed in directory format, with
each directory being a Gopher menu item.
This should provide sufficient clues for FTPers to find them via ls
commands.

About_Comics has a top level file about sequential art from Bordeaux and
  Prague available via World Wide Web

About_Comics/Business has files on Antarctic Press information, Crash
  Course Studios, Dez Skinn suing Eclipse, Impulse Studios, and Comics
  Company Addresses.

About_Comics/Business/Top_BW_Comics has lists of the top black and white
  comics ordered by one distributor for various months.

About_Comics/Business/Top_Color_Comics has lists of the top color comics
  ordered by one distributor for various months.

About_Comics/Business/Top_Publishers has lists of the top publishers by
  market share based on orders from one distributor for various months.

About_Comics/Business/Comic_Art_Studies has files relating to the Comic Art
  Studies newsletter published by the Michigan State University Libraries

About_Comics/Comics Theses has a list of comic related ms/phd thesis

About_Comics/Comics Works Reference List has a list of comics reference
  books.

About_Comics/Comics_News has comic related stories from various newspapers
  and magazines.

About_Comics/Essays has essays about comics and music, and comics in Europe.

About_Comics/Essays/Comics_Code_Authority has discussion about and history
  of the CCA.

About_Comics/Essays/Uber-Christ has files relating comics to religous
  symbolism.

About_Comics/Libraries with Comics has a list of comic carrying libraries.

About_Comics/Lod Goukens History of Comics is a history of comic strips.

About_Comics/Sturman Collection at LOC is, I suppose, something about comics
  at the Library of Congress.

Annotations_and_Information has annotations and/or checklists on Asterix,
  Avengers, Cherry, Doom Patrol, Fantastic Four, Horror and Sci-Fi, Image
  Comics, Jack Kirby (including tributes after his death), a Jeff Smith
  interview, the Legion of Super-Heroes FAQ, Neil Gaiman bibliography,
  Sandman FAQ, various reviews and interviews relating to Sandman, Skip
  Williamson interview, Stan Lee on Larry King Show, Stanley and his
  Monster, the Superman FAQ and major stories synopses, Understanding
  Comics, the Watchmen annotations, and the X-Men

Comic_Book_Legal_Defense_Fund has information about same

Comics_as_a_Career has information about breaking into comics and Berni
  Wrightson on writing as well as Gary Reed's self-publishing guide and
  Michael Davis on professionalism. The Guidelines subdirectory has
  submission guidelines from Blue Comet, Caliber, DC, Dark Horse, Eclipse,
  Fantagraphics, Image, Malibu, Marvel, and Voyager. The John_Ostrander
  subdirectory contains essays by John on comics writing. The Misc.Writing
  subdirectory has general information about writing from the misc.writing
  newsgroup, The Peter_David subdirecty has But I Digress columns which
  Peter gave permission to post and how he writes scripts for Marvel,
  The Rob_Davis subdirectory has much information by Rob Davis about working
  in comics, particularly as an artist. Finally, there is a file of San
  Diego Con Tips For Writers.

Conventions has reviews of the 1993 Philadelphia Comicfest and the 1993 San
  Diego Comics Con by many r.a.c.ers, as well as the UK Comics Creators'
  Guild Small Press Night and UKCAC 1993.

Humor has the annotated Ambush Bug, a Hulk Death Survey, parody lyrics for
  Muties for Nothing, and a self-censorship comics code.

Interviews has Usenet interviews with Bernie Mireault, Chris Claremont, Dave
  Sim, Denny O'Neil, Eddie Campbell, Evan Dorkin, James Owen, K. C. Carlson,
  Peter David, Steve Gerber, Tony Lobito, and Vince Sullivan.

Net_Resources has information about comics related BBSs, High Weirdness by
  FTP, and the Norwegian r.a.c. FTP site.

New_Comics has reviews and information about Dirtbag, Knotted, Nina's
  Adventures, Harvey Pekar and Joyce Brabner, Roland Gethers, and Terror Tots.

Operation_Crazed_Ferret has files for computer animations of the Animated
  Cerebus portfolio.

Welcome_to_Rec.Arts.Comics has the Welcome to r.a.c. postings as well as
  the Batman:TAS FAQ, Image FAQ,, r.a.c.marketplace FAQ, and the
  r.a.c.xbooks FAQ

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Disney comics
    The archive of the disney-comics mailing list (see below) contains
    indexes of many old and new Disney comics, a Don Rosa index, as well
    as some other information on Disney comics.
        ftp: from ftp.lysator.liu.se, directory pub/comics/disney.
        There is an FTP by email server on this machine; send mail to:
        [e-mail] with the word HELP as the body of your
        message for information on how to use it.
    (this information provided by
    Per Starback, Uppsala, Sweden.  email: [e-mail])

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X-Men files (archived files available via anonymous FTP)
    darwin.cc.nd.edu
    /pub/comics/X-Men-files is the directory

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Connie Hirsch's New Mutants novel, _Kid Dynamo_.
    ftp: from ocf.berkeley.edu, directory /pub/Comics/Kid_Dynamo
    email: [e-mail] (David Goldfarb)

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Sandman annotations  by Greg Morrow ([e-mail])
Books of Magic annotations  by David Goldfarb ([e-mail])
Watchmen annotations  by Doug Atkinson ([e-mail])
Suicide Squid discussions (all Suicide Squid posts from Day One; LONG)
    David Wald ([e-mail]) has made these available
by both ftp and email.  For Sandman, the filenames are "Index", for
the index of files, and "sandman.01" and up for the annotations.
BY FTP: ftp to theory.lcs.mit.edu or 18.52.0.92, and look in the directory
        pub/wald/sandman
    [for the other files, the directories are:]
        pub/wald/books-of-magic
        pub/wald/watchmen
        pub/wald  [suicide-squid file]
BY EMAIL: send mail containing the line "send wald sandman/filename" to
          [e-mail].  Thus, to fetch the index
    ly available annotations, send email with the line
          "send wald sandman/Index".  If you can't get this to work,
          try sending email to the archive server containing only the
          word "help".
    [for the other files, "send wald suicide-squid"]

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Superman FAQ
  [e-mail] (David Thomas Chappell)
  Available via anonymous FTP at
    garfield.catt.ncsu.edu    152.1.43.23    /pub/misc/superman.txt
    ftp.dhhalden.no           158.36.33.3    /pub/Comics/FAQ/Superman.FAQ

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Comic Strip Collections: Titles and Publishing Information
  Available via World Wide Web at:
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/comics/collections/faq.html
  Available via FTP at:
    rtfm.mit.edu    /pub/usenet/news.answers/comics/collections
    ftp.uu.net      /usenet/news.answers/comics/collections.Z

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Animated Cerebus portfolio animations (aka Operation: Crazed Ferret)
        Color version anonymous ftp at:
        asylum.sf.ca.us
        /pub/cerebus/crazed-ferret
        Grayscale version anonymous ftp at:
        sunsite.unc.edu
        /pub/multimedia/pictures/OTIS/animations

        Both sites have the same filenames of:
        bar.qt.cpt.hqx = "A Well Equipped Bar"   for Macs
        bar.avi                                  for "IBM"s
        bat.qt.cpt.hqx = "Add One Mummified Bat"
        bat.avi
        sword.qt.cpt.hqx = "His First Sword"
        sword.avi
        README and ferret.readme = essential info about all kinds of stuff

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Usenet interview with Dave Sim (creator of _Cerebus_)
Cerebus Companion (from soda.berkeley.edu)
        available via anonymous ftp; connect to "asylum.sf.ca.us"
    /pub/cerebus/sim-interview/1
    /pub/cerebus/sim-interview/2
    /pub/cerebus/sim-interview/3
    /pub/cerebus/sim-interview/4
    /pub/cerebus/sim-interview/5
    /pub/cerebus/sim-interview/6
    /pub/cerebus/companion

[?]
Watchmen discussion (archives in an FTP site, *not* an e-mail address). These
        are the archived net.comics discussions of Watchmen from 1985-6 as
        the book came out. LONG
    ftp.white.toronto.edu
    /pub/comics/watchmen is the correct path

[end of part 5]

"There are no net.gods, just some people with bigger mouths than others."
  -- Dan'l DanehyOakes, net.roach
tyg   [e-mail]