XPost: rec.arts.anime.misc
From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com
On 08/21/2011 09:11 AM, sanjian wrote:
> On 8/20/2011 11:04 PM, Travers Naran wrote:
>> On 19/08/2011 10:16 AM, dumpster4@hotmail.com wrote:
>>> "The brawny super-heroes of American comic culture
>>> are taking on the starry-eyed Japanese girls of manga.
>>>
>>> For the winner, world domination and potentially millions
>>> more readers in Asia."
>
>
>
> I'm sure there will be rebuttal, but thanks for the perspective. Not
> having been interested in comics, at all, until I picked up my first
> issue of Adam Warren's rendition of the Dirty Pair (Sim Hell,
> specifically), I wasn't sure how the health of the market really was.
>
Well it is to bad you were not interested in Comics or even
Comix when they came along in the 1960s and 1970s.
I got to read the Sunday Funnies in the SF Chronicle with
Bringing Up Father (aka Maggie and Jiggs), Blondie, Joe Palooka,
the various Milton Caniff strips from Terry and the Pirates on,
Flying Jack. Thimble Theatre with Popeye, Olive Oyl and the rest.
the Gumps, Moon Mullins, the Nut Bros Chet and Wal, the Little
King and the Little Hichhiker(Nov shoz ka pop), Henry the bald
kid with a speech impediment, Little Lulu and her pals, Fritz
Ritz with Nancy and Sluggo, Mark Trail, Mary Worth from the
depression's, Rex Morgan M.D., and little Orphan Annie
with Daddy Warbucks and a couple of oriental bodyguards so
that no matter the villain with Sandy to help out she
always got away and sooner or later found DW again.
I nearly forgot Dick Tracy with his weird pals
and weirder villains. Al Capp's Lil Abner was very
popular until he got caught in an underage sex scandal.
But Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse were in the
Comic books aka flimsy 4 color thin magazines.
Waldo the Rabbit as well as the Bunny, Bugs.
MaryAnn and Sniffles the mouse.
The Batman was toting twin 45s early on before
the writers got smart and invented less lethal toys
for the Utility Belt. Superman was a lot simpler
in those days and the art and reproduction was
really low quality. The original Green Lantern
was a simple crime fighter with no explanation
for his Power Ring or Lantern. The Flash was Mercury
aka Hermes in long underwear and a WW I helmet which
design was shared with the Flash who gained his
speed through the recitation of a mathematical formula.
Captain America was the best thought out
of the science fictional origin stories. Daredevil
led a band of fighting kids who were seen as "Junior
Commandos" infiltrating the Reich in ragamuffin, refugee
outfits.
Hawkman, Bulletman, Captain Midnight, Black Hawk
and his crew, Mandrake the Magician who gestured hypnotically
and made the villains rue the day they crossed him and
his companions. Wonder Woman was simply a magical Amazon
from a hidden island with an invisible plane and magic
lasso and magic bracelets that could deflect bullets.
Pogo Possum came along in the 1950s and both
mother and myself were enchanted with the political
rhetoric expressed in newpaper strips and these collected
were some of the first graphic novels I collected.
Oh yeah I had missed some great stuff but in
the Sacramento Public Library we had access to the
full run of George Herriman's Krazy Kat
Some of the heroes had radio shows, but when
TV came in we had more stuff to satisfy our recreational
requirements. Less time to read comic strips with
the increases in work and homework.
So that is why I say that it is too bad you
had to wait for the Dirty Pair to get interested in
comics.
bliss
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