Tropes having to do with newspapers, magazines and other non-book printed media.
These media were produced by using a variety of methods for staining pressed sheets of wood pulp with letters and images. They were required to be physically transported to the consumer, requiring large numbers of "copies" to be made of each article. In spite of a very restricted capability for user-edits (all changes made were local to the "copy" of the article, not visible elsewhere), these media were in many ways considered precursors of the Web.
See also Photography and Illustration tropes and the Print Media index for works.
Tropes:
- Clue from Ed.: For the sake of readers who may not have caught up on prior issues, comics often feature footnotes explaining when mentioned events occurred.
- Crossword Puzzle
- Dateline
- Fanservice Cover
- Fashion Magazine
- "How I Wrote This Article" Article: Writing about not knowing what to write anymore.
- Letters to the Editor
- Local Angle
- Long-Running Book Series
- Lurid Tales of Doom
- Magazine Decay
- Note from Ed.
- Off the Record
- Page Three Stunna: Using pictures of attractive women to sell newspapers.
- Page-Turn Surprise: A Cliffhanger's resolution is on the next page.
- Painting the Medium: Font, interface changes, or camera or editing tricks convey things about the story.
- Political Cartoons
- Political Correctness Is Evil
- Political Overcorrectness
- Print Long-Runners
- Proportional Article Importance
- Punny Headlines
- Silly Season
- Television Tie In Magazines
- Variant Cover
- Worst News Judgment Ever: The news suck at prioritizing their stories, leading to unimportant stories becoming headlines and decidedly more important ones being swept under the rug.
