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Jonathan Watkins
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My wife has occassionaly picked up a comic I've left laying around. She liked DKR. As far as I know, its the only comic she has ever read all the way through. Her last comment was regarding an issue of Daredevil I left in the bathroom: The pictures were unclear and she couldn't tell which frame lead to the next.
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Sam Karns
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Maybe she could try Archie? It's been around for a very long time.
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David Whiteley
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Chad said, "I've never even met a woman who read a comic book in her
whole life. And all you guys are married/linked to ones that do?"
Two of my three long-term girlfriends have liked comics.
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Steve Lieber
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Portland, Oregon must be some sort of huge exception to the way the world works. If I go to someone's house of someone under the age of 40 who reads, male or female. I expect to see a few comics on the shelf or the coffee table. Maus, Sandman, Persepolis, Fun Home, Blankets, a volume of Tezuka's Buddha, one of the Complete Peanuts hardbacks, a Joe Sacco book. They're just around. I've been on the bus and spotted five different people, all sitting apart, each with their nose in a comic.
My wife devours comics, and in her capacity as a librarian, is often able to show me work I've never seen before . As a kid she'd read her father's collection of Pogo books, and in her early teens, she went nuts for Elfquest. Sandman inevitably came next, and that was that. Stuff she's been talking about recently include Finder by Carla Speed McNeil, Jaime Hernandez's Locas stories, Yoshinaga Fumi's Antique Bakery, Alison Bechdel's work, Guy Delisle's Pyongyang, Lynda Barry's books, Linda Medley's Castle Waiting, Bob Fingerman's Beg the Question, and Manu Larcenet's Ordinary Victories.
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Jesse Hamm
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Don't forget ROM, Steve. (Here in Portland, our wives are all about ROM.)
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Steve Lieber
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Jesse, I would never forget ROM. Craig Russell inking Steve Ditko? Unforgettable.
Another winning book- this one's for the whole family, and it's in print after being unavailable for 50 years:
Edited by Steve Lieber on 23 February 2007 at 12:51pm
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Wes Wescovich
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My first wife liked JB's She-Hulk to the extreme that she took them with her when we split up. She also liked The Question a lot. I had an ex-gf that really liked Omaha the Cat Dancer and Strips. But I think the taboo subject matter sealed the deal on that one.
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Andrew W. Farago
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Moomin's incredible. I bought a copy as a Valentine's Day present for Shaenon, and she loved it. It's really unlike any comic strip I've ever read. Moomin and the recent Fantagraphics collection of Gene Deitch's Terr'ble Thompson have me wondering what other lost treasures are out there...
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Steve Lieber
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Here's an article of tangental interest to this thread:
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6418995.html?nid=2 789
Edited by Steve Lieber on 23 February 2007 at 2:12pm
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Andrew Hess
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Steve -
you beat me to it! just read that article and was going to post after reading
thru this.
And thanks for the recommendation on Moomin. I'll have to check it out for
my son.
AND and, going back to your first post this page, I think Portland IS a huge
exception. Don't you have the highest per capita of cartoonists/comic book
artists in the nation?
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Steve Lieber
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Re: Portland's per-capita, I've heard that from a number of sources. Maybe that's why so many people read them here. Or maybe cartoonists move here because the local culture is so welcoming. Either way, this is a great place for readers and creators. The reading culture itself is incredibly vibrant; the largest independent bookstore in the hemisphere is five blocks away from where I type this.
My wife has liked comics for years but since moving here she's fallen for the medium enough to write some. Unsurprisingly she's found a bunch of great collaborators in the area. Here's her latest story, drawn by a new artist named Ron Chan.
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Phil Kreisel
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My wife isn't reading comics right now (and hasn't since George Perez did the Teen Titans 20 years ago!! ). However, she loves the art / bio books of Perez, Byrne and Frank Miller's Sin City (all of which she bought for me).
Her favorite "current" comic was the graphic novel "Ghost World".
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