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    Posted: December 22 2020 at 19:37
I grew up with comic series - even at a time when it was somewhat passé and had lost ground to television, computer games and things like that, but my parents had a big collection, as have my sister and her boyfriend, and I have a semi-big collection too. When other kids were playing playstation or football (soccer), I was burried in a Tintin or an Asterix book (if I was not making, or listening to music). Alas, I don't know many others today outside my family and their friends who read comic books, but what about people here? Is it something you read, and if so, what kinds of comics do you read?

For my own part, we're mostly speaking of the classic French/Belgian tradition with series such as Tintin, Asterix, Lucky Luke, Iznogoud, Spirou and Fantasiou and so on. But I have other favourites too: Valhalla (Danish series based on Nordic mythology), Calvin and Hobbes, Peanuts, Madam and Eve (satirical series from South Africa), as well as some rather bizarre ones that are not known outside Denmark.
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Absolutely.


I grew up with Asterix too; was an important part of my life I think, and love them.

I have many still at my parents' (for space Embarrassed). But I keep with me a big compilation of many Smurfs magazines joined together (as they used to do back then). Smile

Later I dug into Lucky Luke, and also have a few. They're superb.



I found these around.. 




The Asterix one is a reissue really (not the same quality of paper/impression, but as I said, I have my collection of originals). That 'Don Quijote' I think is a one shot comic I grabbed once at a book fair with my dads long long ago.

The one at the bottom is "Mampato".. Chilean and old; that I'd say is near the quality of the others mentioned. It's about a boy, Mampato (I don't know why that name) that has a magic belt that permits him traveling in time, and he has an adorable, funny and primitive friend and companion, Ogú, that joined him on one of his trips to the past.

Nowadays I don't really read comics.. but I perfectly could if I had them at hand, ideally new ones.

Tintin I never got into. Those Danish ones sound interesting... I like these older types though.



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I used to, during my childhood and adolescence... my favourite was Conan.
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I used to read MAD magazine until I grew out of it around the age of sixty. Smile
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Big Hergé fan, loved the Tintin books though I wouldn't call them 'comic books' which are (were) pulp-based and budget friendly periodicals for kids & military who could afford 25¢ for a thirty page story about people in tights fighting crime. 

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I don't read them but plan to start doing so pronto. The most interesting and creative writing seems to be coming from the comic medium rather than the traditional novel e.g. Grant Morrison whose four issue comic Happy! was adapted by Netflix to create a brilliant TV series.
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Hi,

Born into a house of literature and never saw a "comic book" until I came to America at almost 16. They didn't strike me as important or valuable with good stories and almost all of them were looking for the "flash" that became the movies in the late 60's, 70's and 80's ... and eventually overly done sugared violence!

I fell out of it quickly ... even the Japanese Anime was better and more fun! Marvel was just ridiculous!
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No. My brother was heavily into comic books growing up and read them constantly. At one point he had a collection of over 1,000(if not more).  For a brief period of time at around age 10 or 11 I tried to copy him and had my own collection of about 20-30. I didn't read them much and never really got into them. I tried but I think my adhd got in the way. I would like to maybe get into graphic novels at some point though.
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

I used to read MAD magazine until I grew out of it around the age of sixty. Smile

I used to read MAD also. It's maybe the closest thing to a comic book that I got into. I also used to read "comics" and was a big fan of the farside. 
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I did when I was a youngster....from age 10-19....Marvel mostly...Fantastic 4, Thor, Iron Man, XMen, Dr Strange, Avengers ,Spiderman..and DC...Green Lantern, Flash, etc ...not much of a Superman or Batman fan but I did have a few of those also. My brother and I started college in '68 and '69 and my mom asked us what we wanted her to do with our stuff ..comics..and we said give them away or thrown them out...Ouch
We had no idea they would grow in value.
About 30 years ago I wanted to recollect some due to value  and Dr Strange had been one of my weird favorites so I tracked down the complete first series as well as most of the Strange Tales issues he shared with Nick Fury and others...so I still have that first complete Dr Strange series and the Strange Tales...I'll end up selling them probably since they are worth a few bucks these days.
Some years back got into 'The Sandman' by Gaman and 'The Invisibles' by Morrison. Hanging on to those also .
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I used to read Zippy Pinhead by Bill Griffith. I guess one-panel collections by Gary Larson, Jerry Van Amerongen, and Gahan Wilson are not in the same scope as comic books, but those are others I enjoyed.
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Back in the day we had audio plays based on famous comic books where prominent actors read out the dialogue. They were released as cassette tapes, and the idea was to listen to them while reading the comics at the same time. I don't know if they exist in other countries? Here, the Lucky Luke album "Ma Dalton": http://youtube.com/watch?v=mqfJppqDMgg


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Speaking of audio plays, and I love audio plays (I listen to such stuff more than music), I very recently listened to Audible's audio drama (a cast plus Gaiman narrating) of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman -- The Sandman being a comic book series that I had been planning to buy for some time as I am a fan of Gaiman. I loved it.

In my home we have the Death Note manga graphic novel series (my child's collection).

As a kid I read Mad magazine, Weird War, and the quite adult Heavy Metal (very titillating for a young mind). And I love the Far Side, but that's rather different.

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I love audio plays as well, though I think of it more as radio drama.   We could use more of it these days with people stuck at home much of the time.

In the '70s there was a resurgence of interest in the old golden-age radio plays, so you started seeing LP pressings of The Shadow, Superman, The Inner Sanctum, Green Hornet, etc.  

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^ I still listen to and discover lots of radio dramas/ audio plays (both new and old). A lot of that I discovered thanks to BBC's radio player app (now it has a, I think, far inferior and juvenile oriented BBC Sounds app, which I kind of hate-- my opinion on the BBC has gone down somewhat). And through my podcast player (I use ACast) as well as archive.org and some other sites, I have had access to huge catalogues of old and new radio plays. Not based on a comic book, but I loved the Good Omens radio play. I grew up with The Shadow (hearing that on the radio in re-runs). Another favourite of mine was the spoof of 50s sci-fi radio called Atomic Tales, but I move away from the topic.

I think that the aural drama has had quite a resurgence (as podcasts became a popular medium).

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Originally posted by The Anders The Anders wrote:

Back in the day we had audio plays based on famous comic books where prominent actors read out the dialogue. They were released as cassette tapes, and the idea was to listen to them while reading the comics at the same time. I don't know if they exist in other countries? Here, the Lucky Luke album "Ma Dalton": http://youtube.com/watch?v=mqfJppqDMgg

Amazing!  

I never met those..  the concept existed, but not on this kind of comics (that I knew).

How beautiful they are... not sure if I read Ma Dalton.


I kept finding them:




Another reissue, in short format, not the same paper, but it has 7-8 stories.. not sure if I've read them all so I'm already peeking... (and laughing LOL).




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I USED TO ONCE.........not so much nowadays. I grew up reading DC and Marvel comix, but my fav comic has always been ARCHIE :):)




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