XPost: rec.arts.anime.misc
From: jimdigriz@myjaring.net
On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:18:16 -0400, Inu-Yasha wrote:
> On 8/21/2011 2:10 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Capt. Marvel, SHAZAM!
>
> Inu-Yasha
> Feh!! ^_^
Marvelman, KIMOTA!
JdG (I remember Warrior, six pages of V for Vendetta per month!)
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