Drool.
One thing to consider before starting the project: Do you just want a single flat one-category-per-strip method, a hierarchical categorization, or the ability to arbitrarily apply multiple categories to any strip?
I'd like the third in a perfect world, but regardless, best to decide now.
I'm pretty convinced that a flat hierarchy is the way to go. The way Flickr.com and del.icio.us do tagging seems like a flexible way to organize comic strips.
So the idea would be that there would be an additional "tags" field when you save or edit a comic. In this field you can enter categorization tags like "politics junk series funny cc105", whatever you want. Then you'll be able to view sets of comics within the categories.
So I could say "show me all the kaufman comics with the tag 'politics'" or what have you. Or you can decide to make your own series within this system.
The one issue all these tag systems have is that they're space separated so spaces in tags aren't allowed. Having a tag like "My Series About Whatever" seems like it'd be desirable for some users, but I'm not sure how to work that out.
One of the ways would be to use shorthand tags for organization but then let users give the tags longer titles. Like "whateverseries" = "My Series About Whatever".
I've been writing a tag system for another site I'm working on and I've got most of it working. I'm hoping it won't be too hard to port it over here once it's done, due to all the streamlining of the code I've done here on SC.
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