Talk:Aaron Cometbus

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i dont think it should be merged with Aaron Cometbus... Aaron Cometbus (Eliot) is a separate topic - Cometbus should be specifically describing the publication by the name of Cometbus —The preceding unsigned comment was added by xsxex (talk • contribs) 15:25, 16 May 2006 (UTC).[reply]

Well, I'm just saying 'cause basically everything here is duplicated on Aaron Cometbus, as well as the fact that it goes into details about his bands an' shit, not just the zine. —Wiki Wikardo 18:27, 17 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

not to merge-

that might be the case.. i do think it would be better to have to separate pages. one for him as a person and another just for the zine 'Cometus' There is definitely enough material. The Aaron (Eliot) page should be similar to a biography page. - xsxex

Given that the zine is so autobiographical, though, there’s really a tough overlap between the two—what could be said about the zine itself that wouldn’t leave the article a stub? —Wiki Wikardo 19:30, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There's only one paragraph that is somewhat of a duplicate in the cometbus article . . . and given that it's beena few months with no merge, i'm gonna take the tags down. --he ah 04:59, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It’s been a few months ’cause I know this is a relatively low-traffic page, and xsxex hadn’t answered me yet; I was giving folks the benefit of the doubt. That being said, my question still hasn’t been answered—I didn’t ask what was duplicated on Cometbus, I asked what could be left without turning the article into a stub? —Wiki Wikardo 21:20, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

the zine article that would remain would be:

Cometbus was a punk zine started in Berkeley, California in 1983 by Aaron Elliott. Writing under the pen name Aaron Cometbus, Elliott self-published his usually handwritten zine for about 20 years. Cometbus consisted of band interviews, personal diaries and observations on the punk subculture in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.

Cometbus captured a slice of life in Oakland and Berkeley, California from the late 1980s through the 1990s. This includes squatting, collective living, falling in love and other perils of the punk rock lifestyle. His writing is characterized by stories of loneliness and alienation, tempered with episodes of brightness and perennial hope in the ability of humans to connect to one another.

In 2004, Elliott quit writing Cometbus to pursue publishing his writing through other channels.

Selections from 48 issues of Cometbus have been collected into a single volume, titled Despite Everything: A Cometbus Omnibus (Last Gasp of San Francisco; September 2002, ISBN 0867195614).

Double Duce (Last Gasp, 2003, ISBN 0-86719-586-X) is about Cometbus's life in a punk house called Double Duce, and collects material published in Cometbus 32, 35, 37, 38, 41, 43, and 45.

Chicago Stories (self published, 2004) is a small collection about Chicago, originally published in Cometbus issues 35, 37, 38, 41, and 45.

I Wish There Was Something I Could Quit

Two collections have been translated into French, including En dépit de tout (1997).

not really a stub . . . but i really don't have a problem with stubs anyways . . .

feel free to put the tags back up if you want.

--he ah 21:43, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

-Removing notability tag. Definitely notable, google his name. ScarTissueBloodBlister (talk) 16:13, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Merge?

Is there still any discussion of merging this article with the "Cometbus" article, or is that a closed issue? For what it's worth, I think they should be merged. For one, about half of the current article that's supposed to be about the zine is not about the zine, and secondly, no one ever talks about the zine (or should, imo) without also talking about the author. I could also add that the current article about the zine is pretty poor and needs a lot of work. It'd be easier to maintain one article and it'd be nicer to have one, complete, quality article about the author, the zine, his bands, other works, etc. My two cents. ColinClark (talk) 07:00, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Agree. SethTisue (talk) 14:31, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I was WP:BOLD and I did it. I think I got all of the info from the other article merged in. In all modesty, I think it's a huge improvement :-) ColinClark (talk) 23:18, 20 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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