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.

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 ). But I keep with me a big compilation of many Smurfs magazines joined together (as they used to do back then). 

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.

Back in the day...

        

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. 

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!

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. 

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.

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.

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 ).

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

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

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

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.

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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.

Atavachron wrote: 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.

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.

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.

Sean Trane wrote: 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.

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.