Cataloging help?

[rivkat]

OK, so do/how do you all separate fiction from comics?  My system is breaking down.  (We use Library of Congress for nonfiction, but that's terrible for fiction.)  I have a rough system of "nonsequential comics like Gorey or xkcd shelved with fiction, sequential shelved as comics."  But it's only rough and I'm not really sure I want Maus shelved alphabetically by title with the comics instead of alphabetically by author name with the fiction.

Any suggestions?  (To make matters worse, I shelve tie-in novels and scripts alphabetically by series title in with the fiction, except for screenplays by Robert Bolt.)  A pure mix is unlikely because of shelf height issues; I think it makes sense to have the noncollected comics, issue by floppy issue, segregated from regular fiction, though I could probably be argued into a change.

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[ratcreature]

I have thousands of comics, more than books. I put them entirely separate from my books. The US ones that are not in paperbacks I have in 20+ boxes divided by publisher/imprint and then sorted alphabetically by title. Some paperback collections I put in the boxes together with their series, if I have most of it in single issues. The other comics I have shelved in part so that the most expensive/collectible ones, like signed or limited editions are in my shelves that are behind glass, so that they are more protected, also somewhere my rats can't reach and chew (I lost a signed limited edition to an enterprising rat once that got past my barriers into a shelf -- paper collectibles and rodents don't mix well), otherwise mostly by grouping genres and series together. Like newspaper comic reprints on one shelf, Westerns on another, SF on a third, autobiographical ones (like Eisner's stuff) yet elsewhere. Sometimes I separate by language, but not always. Books I mostly sort by author, but that doesn't work for me with comics because they are usually collaborations.