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The Anders ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: January 02 2019 Location: Denmark Status: Offline Points: 3535 |
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In Denmark we simply say 'tegneserie' (drawn series) about all of them. Be it the Bande Dessinée, Donald Duck magazines, Superman, Manga etc. It's more neutral I guess, it could apply to any format, and they don't have to be comic.
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dr wu23 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: August 22 2010 Location: Indiana Status: Offline Points: 20666 |
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Stan Lee created or co-created most of the early Marvel characters Fantastic 4, Spiderman, Dr Strange...and wrote the story lines and oversaw the gist of the books but he didn't draw or color the main images....the letterers and artists did that. People like Kirby, Ditko, (Starlin, Brunner)... and Kirby also cowrote with Lee at times.
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Born in Brussels, the heart of creation of the Belgo-French Bande Dessinée (which is now more Franco-Belgian), but also encapsulating Italian (Pratt, Manara, etc..), Swiss (Cosey, Derib, Zep & Ceppi), Germans (Andréas) and Spanish authors since the 60/70's. Even Argentinians (Munoz, Sampoyo, etc...) and Chileans (Jodorowski)were published from Brussels or Paris from the mid-70's onwards. Will Eisner was also published back then. ============== Soooo I was much into the three main weeklies Tintin, Spirou and Pilote (Vaillant/Pif being the distant fourth) and the derived hard cardboard books when a kid. When we crossed the pond in the early 70's, we took our culture with us to Montreal (first) and then Toronto (we even had those three weeklies coming to us via diplomatic mail), but our friends were totally unaware of these forms of "comics". To adapt to my surrounding, I tried to read MAD and those Archies comics and managed somewhat, but read avidly the newspaper comics strips, but we could never get into those testicle-moulding tight-wearing panzies superheroes. It always seemed so retrograd to me, sooooo oversimplistic. So my buddies borrowed our books, sometimes even learning their french on them, but it was a one-way street, but we didn't care. Of course when the monthlies Metal Hurlant and (A SUIVRE) appeared , I followed on it r(the first delving in Sci-Fi and the second in B&W graphic Novels). I read US/Can graphic novels, but I can't stand 99.9% of mangas. Today, I really have a hard time with pre-70's Bande Dessinée, mostly because they're so outdated in terms of storylines, but I still read a fair amount of it.
Nope, the Belgo-French school shouldn't be called "comics" (neither should mangas, BTW), because of the way they're published in luxurious format (+/- 15 $£€ for a 45-page full-coloured album), but this doesn't mean they're anymore high-priced collectible items for avid collectioners. Edited by Sean Trane - December 30 2020 at 17:21 |
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BaldJean ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: May 28 2005 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 10387 |
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I read Micky Mouse and Donald Duck and the Marvel superhero comics in my youth. later I read Asterix, Tintin and Lucky Luke, then Gilbert Shelton and Robert Crumb. these days I especially like the pretty dark Canardo comics ("canard" is French for "duck") by Belgian comic book artist Benoît Sokal. he is a private eye who is in love with a female villain named Clara (a stork) who often crosses his path. the stories feature sex, drugs, violence and various grim themes such as suicide, insanity and rape ![]() Edited by BaldJean - December 30 2020 at 17:43 |
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triptych ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: June 27 2019 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 870 |
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Don't you like Stan Lee ? |
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HackettFan ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: June 20 2012 Location: Oklahoma Status: Offline Points: 7951 |
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I used to be a big time reader and collector of comics through the 70s and the first half of the 80s. Some of what I have is worth a small fortune today. I was mainly only interested in Marvel. My favorite was Captain Marvel (who was originally male, fyi). I also especially liked Adam Warlock, Dr. Strange, Spider-Man, and others. My favorite artists were Jim Starlin and Frank Brunner.
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I was heavy into Richie Rich as a kid and to lesser extents other Harvey comics. I also loved DC war comics and Uncle Scrooge. This was in the 70s. I didn't get big into superheroes until the 80s. Pretty much stopped reading new comics about 20 years ago. I still dabble in the occasional collected trade paperback of newer stuff but mostly non-Marvel and non-DC. I can't stand modern superhero comics these days but I still read them from decades prior to the 90s. As far as Richie Rich is concerned, I'm about 50 issues away from having all issues published from Richie Rich 1 in 1960 until Harvey stopped publishing in the 90s. I also only need three or four of the original Carl Barks Uncle Scrooges to complete that run and I still buy DC war comics from the 50s through the 80s
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triptych ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: June 27 2019 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 870 |
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MAD was kinky kool back in the day !!! |
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triptych ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: June 27 2019 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 870 |
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I remember I used to wait for eons for the latest Archie comix imported from my local newsagent from the U.S. !!! I love Veronica & Betty too...and the Archies killed it for music !!! Sugar, Sugar :):) Edited by triptych - December 29 2020 at 04:50 |
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Logan ![]() Forum & Site Admin Group ![]() ![]() Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 37255 |
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I loved reading the Richie Rich comic books as a kid, and I got very into Tintin at an early age. My wife was into Archie.
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triptych ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: June 27 2019 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 870 |
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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 :):) ![]() Edited by triptych - December 29 2020 at 03:26 |
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Machinemessiah ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: April 02 2005 Location: Santiago, Chile Status: Offline Points: 594 |
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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 ![]() Edited by Machinemessiah - December 28 2020 at 18:10 |
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Logan ![]() Forum & Site Admin Group ![]() ![]() Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 37255 |
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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). Edited by Logan - December 28 2020 at 14:16 |
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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. A true lost art form. |
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Logan ![]() Forum & Site Admin Group ![]() ![]() Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 37255 |
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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. Edited by Logan - December 28 2020 at 13:53 |
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The Anders ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: January 02 2019 Location: Denmark Status: Offline Points: 3535 |
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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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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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dr wu23 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: August 22 2010 Location: Indiana Status: Offline Points: 20666 |
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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...
![]() 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 . I highly recommend 'The Invisibles' to anyone who likes weird conspiracy stuff mixed with sci-fi and the occult. |
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AFlowerKingCrimson ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: October 02 2016 Location: Philly burbs Status: Offline Points: 18957 |
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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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AFlowerKingCrimson ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: October 02 2016 Location: Philly burbs Status: Offline Points: 18957 |
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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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