Ladies: Do You Like Comic Books?

[Almost Vintage]

I got into comics in my late teens because my boyfriend at the time collected. I started collecting my own (even after we broke up) for quite some time before I got into gaming and the comics fell by the wayside. However, I'm still a huge Spiderman fan. At one point I was collecting three different Spidey titles. I also collected Silver Surfer, X-Men, and a few others like I, Gregory and Cerebus.

 

[JennyLou]

I only began reading comics about 3 years ago when a guy I was dating let me read some. I would go to comic book club and usually I was the only girl there. I tend to like Batman and Rock I also read I really enjoy Sunday comics too such as the Peanuts, Blondie, Get Fuzzy, and Mutts. I also like some graphic, such as Persepolis and Arkham Asylum. My favorite so far had been the comic series Y: the Last Man

 

[Odalisque]

Don't know if it qualifies me as "Girl Liking Comics" but I'm enthralled with the Dark Tower graphic novels

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[Bluebird Marsha]

I read a small assortment of comics when I was a kid, mainly Star Trek and Star Wars, but I know there were a couple of others (I'm sorry/embarrassed/amused) to say my early sex education was gleaned from the pages of Heavy Metal- don't tell my mom! Right now I don't buy any, but I see a bunch come across my desk at work. I really liked Cleburne (U.S. Civil War), and several Jane Austen graphic novels. I may have to start indulging.

For what it's worth, I do library cataloging at a book distributor, and while I love that public and school libraries have finally started ordering them in large quantities (I tried to convince my library director back in 94 to do that. You could hear the sound of my being shot down in flames across the county), those babies are a BEAR to catalog! Trying to keep the series straight is an absolute nightmare.

 

[Stray Cat]

Comic books?
Not in a generally know meaning of the word.

Manga.

From silicone based creatures in "Biomega"
http://animanganation.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/biomega-vol-02.jpg

Over funny-as-hell caracters in "One piece"
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SE_rDvh3XVo/TbJ-9lOYOmI/AAAAAAAAAAY/gcqsMNU8yxs/s1600/One+Piece.jpg

To dress-up Gothic Lolita in slice of life drama "Cat street"
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GLe139lgutg/SM3gYH5r-5I/AAAAAAAAAGc/0cdd76RgLSw/s400/02-03.jpg

Amazing art!
Miraculous stories!
Breathtaking journey in every black and white page..
(and now you can sense that I'm a BIT nerdy when it comes to manga)

lol

 

[Nathan Dodge]

I read comics when I was 10-13 or so -- it was that stretch in the early to mid 70s where a lot of Golden Era material was being reprinted in "100 pages for 60 cents" packages, so I became very fond of that stuff.

In those days, you bought comics off the newsstand or the rack in the drugstore, and there were no comic shops.

I was amused by this portion of your post, because I was at the tail end of the "Hey Kids, Comics!" era, as I began getting comics in 1976. The comic shop was a big deal to me though. I must've made my first visit to a comic store in early 1981. I missed fewer "must reads" thanks to those places.

 

[Shawnie MacAlpine]

Yes!

I was in my early teens when I stumbled on reprints of the original Superman adventures at my library. Superman ended up more my little brother's style but I found myself quite addicted to WWII Batman stories... which I still enjoy when I can find/afford them.

I have several girlfriends who live and breath manga, but the stories I've sampled from that genre are too relationship-y to hold their own against good old fashioned fistfights!

Sandman is good. So was Maus.

 

[Nathan Dodge]

I was in my early teens when I stumbled on reprints of the original Superman adventures at my library. Superman ended up more my little brother's style but I found myself quite addicted to WWII Batman stories... which I still enjoy when I can find/afford them.

I was in the fifth grade (1981-82) when I first read Superman #25--as it appeared in the trade paperback America at War, which I still have--where Supes inadvertendtly uses his X-Ray vision to read the eye chart in the next room, thereby failing his US Army physical! It was for the best, though, seeing as if "Super Soldier" Superman would've raised a lot of questions if he didn't immediately fly over to Berlin and crush Hitler's skull like the rotten egg it was.

 

[Edward]

I was really into comics when I was a kid (9-15), but kind of fell out with all the spandex super types and put them down for a few years. In my second year in college, though, one of my friends passed me vol 1 of Transmetropolitan (Warren Ellis et al) and I started getting back into graphic novels and sequential art, largely independent of super heroes and their ilk. These days, I've got a respectable (and diverse) collection of TBPs- V for Vendetta, Persepolis, Maus I and II, a few books of Strangers in Paradise, a good chunk of The Sandman... The list goes on, and it's not all western comics, either. But, to put it shortly: YES.

Maus II? Is that a different story, or was the book originally released in two volumes? I love that one. It's a strange thing, but somehow making them all cutesy animals made it all the more human. not sure my cats are thrilled at being depicted as Nazis, mind.

 

[Nobert]

Maus II? Is that a different story, or was the book originally released in two volumes?

Yes, two volumes: Maus (My Father Bleeds History) came out in 1986, and was followed in 1991 with Maus II (And Here My Troubles Began). The story was originally serialized in Raw, Spiegleman and Mouly's comics anthology series. They released the whole enchilada as one volume a few years ago.

 

[Edward]

Yes, two volumes: Maus (My Father Bleeds History) came out in 1986, and was followed in 1991 with Maus II (And Here My Troubles Began). The story was originally serialized in Raw, Spiegleman and Mouly's comics anthology series. They released the whole enchilada as one volume a few years ago.

Ah, thanks. I think I must have the one-volume version. Great book.