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.
Compare Text Tropes. See also Photography and Illustration tropes and the Print Media index for works.
Tropes:
- Centerfold Gag: A joke on how certain magazines have centerfolds, often depicting women in states of undress (with some variants instead depicting a innocuous image that is treated as if it were porn).
- 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: The location, date, and sometimes the source of a news story.
- Double-Sided Book: A book with two flipped sides.
- Fanservice Cover
- Fashion Magazine
- Full Bleed: Printing outside the trim line.
- Grid Puzzle: Such as sudoku, nonogram, crosswords, and Latin Squares.
- "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
- The Magazine Rule: There's a magazine for everything, no matter how obscure, specific or bizarre the subject.
- Mail-Order Novelty
- Metapuzzle
- Newspaper-Thin Disguise: A character pretends to read a newspaper in order to hide their face.
- Note from Ed.
- Oddly Specific Greeting Card
- 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.
- Phony Article: An ad disguised as a magazine article.
- Playboy Parody: A bland-name magazine based on Playboy.
- Political Cartoons
- Political Correctness Is Evil
- Political Overcorrectness
- Print Long-Runners
- Proportional Article Importance
- Punny Headlines: Extra! Extra! These headlines are pun to read!
- Silly Season
- Television Tie-In Magazines: A work's official magazine that contains Trivia about it.
- Variant Cover
- Worst News Judgment Ever: The news sucks at prioritizing the stories they broadcast and emphasize.
