chrxs
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Post by chrxs on Sept 11, 2021 12:33:28 GMT
Mostly newspaper strips and paperbacks of Garfield and Peanuts. The first single issues I read were some random mid-90s Uncanny X-Men that I bought at a garage sale.
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bhanu
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Post by bhanu on Sept 11, 2021 12:47:13 GMT
My first comic as far as I remember was Jambu, he was an android superhero, featured in Tulsi comics.
Some random title page of a Jambu issue. Some Heroes from Tulsi Comics. Angara- A man made out of different parts of animals and possessing their abilities. Love this image. Raptors are checking out his muscles, I imagine they are saying "Strong boi", "nom nom".
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Post by disneyweirdness on Sept 11, 2021 13:49:33 GMT
My local newspaper in the 80s had what was in retrospect an amazing Sunday comics section and, for a brief time, ran "alt weekly" type strips like Zippy on Tuesdays or Wednesdays. That and the Garfield and Peanuts holiday specials made me a fan for life.
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Post by jjjbradshaw on Sept 11, 2021 15:43:46 GMT
My first comic as far as I remember was Jambu, he was an android superhero, featured in Tulsi comics.
Some random title page of a Jambu issue. Some Heroes from Tulsi Comics. Angara- A man made out of different parts of animals and possessing their abilities. Love this image. Raptors are checking out his muscles, I imagine they are saying "Strong boi", "nom nom".
Yeeeees. Thanks for the sample images. Love learning about youth comics from other cultures and countries.
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Post by andrewneal on Sept 11, 2021 15:44:56 GMT
I learned to read on picture books as well as Harvey and Archie comics and newspaper comics in the 70s. No idea what was the first. They were always there.
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Post by jjjbradshaw on Sept 11, 2021 16:56:19 GMT
Gonna date myself here... First would be Garfield or Far Side collections.. But yknow how in the early 90s there was a speculative boom in hero books that almost tanked the industry with holographic cards and shit? That was me. And like, a bunch of other 12 year olds. My basement still has many long boxes of the junk. Still waiting to retire on my copy of Superman #75 (he DIES IN IT!!! whaaat?!? ) Also still a little bummed we didn't actually succeed in ending superhero comics... Anyways, first hero books I remember being psyched about was this crossover event that is so terrible that DC hasnt reprpinted it to this day: and this marvel book. i liked that it was weird looking and felt "new". i didn't need to know continuity: first decent indie comic I guess would be Ed The Happy Clown, which I still like, but not as much or in the same way...
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Post by mikesheawright on Sept 11, 2021 17:01:13 GMT
actually comics discovery trajectory might be interesting to talk about too. like the "phases" you went through? mine's been (with some overlap):
calvin & hobbes and far side in washington post -> donald duck singles from 711 -> my uncle's 70's era mad magazines -> claremont x-men and x-men adjacent -> vertigo & manga -> fantagraphics -> scud -> self-published -> pretty much everything
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Post by johnspark on Sept 11, 2021 17:30:25 GMT
calvin and hobbes and far side via my pops as a youngun. I don’t think I really thought of comics as any kind of anything. I just loved calvin and far side. They were singular enough to make perfect sense to my young mind.
many years pass.
I am in a bookstore with a dear friend who is also an artist. At this point I am obnoxiously only really into film and little else. I’m in the fiction part of the store pretending to read some dumb bullshit. My friend appears from the other side of the store and insists I purchase the two books in his hands, “here” and “jimmy corrigan: the smartest kid on earth”.
Thanks friend!
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Post by andrewneal on Sept 11, 2021 22:50:20 GMT
Bret Blevins's art in this was great!
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don
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Post by don on Sept 12, 2021 2:28:19 GMT
First exposure seems like a fraught (aka bs) topic. First obsession, Elfquest, starting in 1984/1985
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vh13
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Post by vh13 on Sept 12, 2021 17:14:06 GMT
Mafalda (Argentina 1964) always at home. Condorito (Chile 1949) always at my cousins. Paturuzu (Argentina 1928)school library full with Paturuzu books. Mandrake(USA 1934 syndicated newspaper comic strip)some very old re prints translated to Spanish that my dad hold on to.
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bhanu
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Post by bhanu on Sept 12, 2021 17:17:35 GMT
My first comic as far as I remember was Jambu, he was an android superhero, featured in Tulsi comics.
Some random title page of a Jambu issue. Some Heroes from Tulsi Comics. Angara- A man made out of different parts of animals and possessing their abilities. Love this image. Raptors are checking out his muscles, I imagine they are saying "Strong boi", "nom nom".
Yeeeees. Thanks for the sample images. Love learning about youth comics from other cultures and countries. So these were from Tulsi comics, and they were the second biggest comic publisher, first being Raj comics. The whole comic industry nearly collapsed in early 2000s after prices rose, and cartoon network etc.
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Post by MilleniumDibber on Sept 12, 2021 22:15:14 GMT
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Post by maxmorris on Sept 12, 2021 22:44:53 GMT
Imagine you're a twelve-year-old english boy on the bus to school and an older AMERICAN lad hands you these: Game over Child endangerment if you ask me
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Post by temporary.screenname on Sept 12, 2021 22:49:35 GMT
I started with strips in the local paper before getting collections of those (some ratty-ass copies of Calvin & Hobbes and Farside that I'm surprised haven't disintegrated yet). That was pretty much all I read until late in highschool when I started reading manga. After a while I transitioned from fighting manga to the more esoteric (the Shintaro Kago scanlations on Samehat were the first I remember). That led me to alternative comics.
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