Comic Book Tracking Software

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I need something to help me track my comic book collection. I have mainly trade paperbacks (they are less clutter), but I have a lot of them… it hasn’t gotten to the point where I don’t remember whether I’ve bought something or not, but it’s on the verge of getting there.

Also, since I live with Diane now, and she has many boxes of Wonder Woman, we need to rein it in ASAP.
At this point I’m favoring the following attributes:

  • web-based interface
  • backed by a database (pref MySQL)
  • open-source (I will be hacking on it)
  • some kind of support for sorting by artist or writer or both, or a framework that makes it relatively easy to add that support
  • the product MUST BE FINISHED, because if I wanted some half-assed program that was mostly broken, I could write it myself

All of these are from SourceForge, ordered by relevancy and potential.

  • LibDB is more generally for magazines, movies, and pretty much every medium you might own. They seem to be still active (Feb 4th 02004) and their home page is pretty impressive. The designers seem to be actual librarian/information archivists.

  • MangaDB runs in perl/CGI. It has a pretty complete home page and a running demo. As promised, it is very suitable for the front end of a Manga store. Bears future investigation.

  • PHPMyComic is one of the most advanced… however the home page for the site is mostly broken, and I couldn’t even leave a comment on the “Forums” section.

  • Odin aka “ACSoc Comics Library Management System” has a home page at sourceforge and a demo site up… however, every time I’ve visited the demo site, it’s been broken, and all the links are in Chinese. Cool site alias though- www3.to/cucomic.

  • JComics looks like it started as a personal project in 02001, came out with a single release, and then got dropped. The project home page is an empty directory listing.
  • CComicCataloging– released once in late 02002. No documentation, no forum comments.
  • myComicCollector is listed in the “planning” stage, is written in Italian, and last had activity in Jan 02003. Next!
  • phpCM is written for PHP and MySQL… too bad it never had a release, and was last heard from in august 02002.
  • I can’t even think of what the concept was for Comic Book Studio. Apparenlty something to do with publishing comics as well as archiving… No releases, no documentation, no posts, last updated Nov 02001.
  • PHP Comic Book Collector was just started in Jan 02004.

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