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Post by pumpduncan on Sept 10, 2021 23:49:36 GMT
This may be a fun ice breaker.
What was the first comic you read/were exposed to?
My dad had a collection of 60's/70's Mad magazines that I obsessed over when I was 5/6. I think following spy v spy got me prepared for reading. I "read" them till they were tatters. There was a copy of Charles Adams Homebodies in the mix then too.
The first comic I got for myself was an issue of the Mighty Mutanimals, a TMNT spin off, from Archie.
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Post by joshpettinger on Sept 11, 2021 0:26:43 GMT
Simpsons comics were the only ones I could find growing up So I would draw a bunch of Simpsons comics. Then this porn vhs shop had a bunch of Orion and Manhunter comics which sucked but I still bought like 100 issues. Went away to University and found Pussey in a bookstore and thats what really got me into Comics.
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Post by lonyowdely on Sept 11, 2021 0:35:52 GMT
As a kid I would wake up every morning at 6 am when the heater turned on, sit on the heater, eat two bowls of cereal, and read from newspaper comics treasuries. I had Peanuts, Garfield, Pearls Before Swine, but I mostly read the Calvin and Hobbes treasuries over and over.
Then, my parents bought me a Shonen Jump to entertain me on a plane ride. Got into manga from that. My family temporarily moved to Tokyo when I was in eighth grade, and I would ride the subway to the Kinokuniya book store on the weekends and spend all day in the English section reading all the manga. That's probably where I did thee majority of my lifetime comics reading.
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Post by k0rnbr34d on Sept 11, 2021 0:47:00 GMT
For me it was Captain Underpants and collected newspaper strips, like what you’d find at Barnes and Noble. My dad also had one Far Side collection which prompted me to buy all the galleries. My brothers had Calvin and Hobbes collections but they never stuck with me and I still find it overrated. The funny comics were most influential. Also spent a lot of time reading Nickelodeon’s magazine which sometimes looked like a kids’ version of Mad.
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Post by bayls171 on Sept 11, 2021 0:49:19 GMT
Simpsons comics were the only ones available at the grocery store so my mum bought me a lot of those. More because of my interest in Simpsons than comics. Although I also read the strips in the newspaper every day so maybe those were first? C&H and Garfield were the ones I liked. Only comics I ever drew were my own Garfield strips. its hard to get into comics, I'm kinda surprised I ever got there
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Post by maxmorris on Sept 11, 2021 0:50:47 GMT
I was given a copy of the Smithsonian Book of Comic Book Comics by Feiffer before I could even read, and I read it over and over until it disintegrated.
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Post by yeahokwow on Sept 11, 2021 1:47:06 GMT
First exposure was probably the strips in the sunday newspaper. I ate that shit up every week! I remember there being Peanuts and Calvin And Hobbes collections in the house. The newspaper was also my first exposure to single issues weirdly enough?! For unknown reasons the paper my parents got delivered, at some point in time, came with a reprint of Todd Macfarlane’s Spider-Man lmao. That went on every week for that complete first arc. So strange. This was in the early 2000’s, probably 01 or 02.
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Post by adamszym on Sept 11, 2021 3:18:30 GMT
Dad brought home a huge box of random DC floppies his coworker had given him. I found a Swamp Thing issue and since I was a huge Swamp Thing fan from the cartoon that was the first thing I read.
It was Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing #45, an issue based around the Winchester House. Really scared me, but I read it over and over. The only other issue I remember reading repeatedly from that box was a Shade the Changing Man issue from the JFK storyline, which really freaked me out and blew my mind.
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Post by catznite on Sept 11, 2021 4:48:28 GMT
i remember delivering papers when i was in middle school and keeping a copy of the comics to read in the car. after that i read whatever i could get my hands on from my cousins collection. he had quite a few x-men tpb’s. it wasn’t until high school when i got really into adventure time and animation in general. i followed whoever i could find from the crew on tumblr and went from there. the public library in grand rapids also has an amazing selection
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Post by carlov on Sept 11, 2021 5:46:00 GMT
Very likely not the first but the first "holy shit what the fuck" comic I remember coming across in my dad's collection.
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Post by castingsigils on Sept 11, 2021 11:02:41 GMT
for me it was the panini marvel uk ‘ultimate spider-man’ reprints my mum would buy me after i loved the 90s cartoon so much. after that it was simpsons comic collection i was somehow fortunate enough to get from scholastic book fairs. seems to be a common theme of simpsons comics being first exposure for people in the uk
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Post by comicshauler on Sept 11, 2021 11:05:35 GMT
I can’t remember not reading comics but I assume the earliest ones came from grocery shopping with my mom.
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Post by castingsigils on Sept 11, 2021 11:10:32 GMT
oh and i guess andy capp too but less said about that the better
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Post by awfulquiet on Sept 11, 2021 12:06:19 GMT
Newspaper strips first and foremost. And then grocery store/convenience store stuff. Stacey6 Adventures, Wizard, limited Big 2 stuff.
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Post by BubblesZine on Sept 11, 2021 12:16:16 GMT
The comics section in the washington post circa 1998-2010. With the eventual discovery of Zippy the Pinhead in 2008 an falling in love with it, and then going down the underground/alternative comics hole.
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