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30 Days of Winter: Day 9 - Girl Comics! *Master Post*
What ho scans_daily! Welcome to Day 9 of our 30 Days of Winter series. Today it's GIRL COMICS, so watch your nads lads.
I figure this is about the right time (although it's about eight hours later than I planned, due to an adventure in which I possibly got a job, definitely lost my debit card, and walked between two towns in the dark) to introduce the Four Marys. As our own icon_uk has mentioned in previous Comics For Girls post comments, the Four Marys' strip ran weekly from 1958 to 2001 - the entire run of my beloved Bunty as a pocket money comic.
They're four "third-formers" at St Elmo's who - what-a-coinkydink - share the same first name. St Elmo's is a boarding school for girls, and hijinks NATURALLY ensue.
The Marys (that feels so much like it needs an apostrophe) and their wicked peers "the snobs" Mabel and Veronica had a great many adventures, although not as many adventures as they did published strips. I really, really wanted to show the difference in art styles over the years by scanning the same story from 1961 and 1991 but after having the 1991 issues by my bed for four months.. this week I have somehow managed to lose them. Whyyyy.
1961, three years into Bunty and the Marys' lives, is the earliest annual I have. Singles are hard to find previous to the 1990s, unfortunately. Actually this volume is so aged it doesn't even have a publishing date printed anywhere within - I had to do cunning detective maths to pin it down for y'all -
If I got it wrong tell me gently.
Anyway, this is how the start of a 4M story started back then! Introductions! They're the ones on the left.
They look like good girls, don't they? And they were. Being nice was aspirational back then, I guess. Back when "adventures" meant "Christmas shopping".
I am so annoyed I can't find the '91 version of this story. They buy the same things but it all looks so different! The hair is so much more voluminous, and they do things like wear civilian clothes.
This is what Mabel and Veronica looked like. Only Mabel is pictured, but Veronica looks exactly the same but blonde.
I can't help but like Mabel, because she has my haircut. 'The snobs' really have no redeeming features personality-wise, though. Complex characters? Do we need them?
Jump to 1976!
You can see right away that Cotty looks less deranged. And the girls as a group look more laid back. For Proper English Schoolgirls, I mean. Their uniforms have changed, and I do wonder why. And who got to design the new ones. Yeah, I'm jealous.
Raddy is really rocking that.. whatever that style is called.
Can we all agree that secret rooms full of treasure are more exciting than buying gloves? The Marys did manage to be exciting, sometimes!
Mabel and Veronica remain the same.
By 1987, the year of me, things at St Elmo's had relaxed even more. It's a major Bummer that the creative teams were never properly credited! We've had ex-Bunty artists pop up in comments before.. spread the word!
Their teacher is getting younger, you can see. And curses! Raddy's lost the bouffant!
Mabel and Veronica are almost unrecognisable;
Whereas the adventures are by this point hip enough to still be hip now. Student protests! Wooo!
Some of them, anyway. My mum grew up doing exactly this actually, and that's not even a joke.
By the time I was reading, the Marys looked like this -
Which is the only picture I can find, from here.. I can't believe I lost those 90s issues. I have this exact panel!
It gets the job done, though. The Marys are all out of uniform - unheard of, in earlier years! Simpy's hair is not what it used to be and Cotty seems to have chilled out considerably. It's neat to see they retain recognisability, but honestly.. I might have more nostalgia for the versions who existed before I was born than the ones I read as a tot.
Sometimes before I go to sleep I imagine the Marys on the Venture Bros, and it's glorious.
So, chums.. what's your favorite girly comic? I bet it's ripping.
Stay tuned for tomorrow's theme: HEROES AND VILLAINS. dun dun dunnnn
And our full 30 Days of Winter calendar is here; don't get caught short!
I figure this is about the right time (although it's about eight hours later than I planned, due to an adventure in which I possibly got a job, definitely lost my debit card, and walked between two towns in the dark) to introduce the Four Marys. As our own icon_uk has mentioned in previous Comics For Girls post comments, the Four Marys' strip ran weekly from 1958 to 2001 - the entire run of my beloved Bunty as a pocket money comic.
They're four "third-formers" at St Elmo's who - what-a-coinkydink - share the same first name. St Elmo's is a boarding school for girls, and hijinks NATURALLY ensue.
The Marys (that feels so much like it needs an apostrophe) and their wicked peers "the snobs" Mabel and Veronica had a great many adventures, although not as many adventures as they did published strips. I really, really wanted to show the difference in art styles over the years by scanning the same story from 1961 and 1991 but after having the 1991 issues by my bed for four months.. this week I have somehow managed to lose them. Whyyyy.
1961, three years into Bunty and the Marys' lives, is the earliest annual I have. Singles are hard to find previous to the 1990s, unfortunately. Actually this volume is so aged it doesn't even have a publishing date printed anywhere within - I had to do cunning detective maths to pin it down for y'all -
If I got it wrong tell me gently.
Anyway, this is how the start of a 4M story started back then! Introductions! They're the ones on the left.
They look like good girls, don't they? And they were. Being nice was aspirational back then, I guess. Back when "adventures" meant "Christmas shopping".
I am so annoyed I can't find the '91 version of this story. They buy the same things but it all looks so different! The hair is so much more voluminous, and they do things like wear civilian clothes.
This is what Mabel and Veronica looked like. Only Mabel is pictured, but Veronica looks exactly the same but blonde.
I can't help but like Mabel, because she has my haircut. 'The snobs' really have no redeeming features personality-wise, though. Complex characters? Do we need them?
Jump to 1976!
You can see right away that Cotty looks less deranged. And the girls as a group look more laid back. For Proper English Schoolgirls, I mean. Their uniforms have changed, and I do wonder why. And who got to design the new ones. Yeah, I'm jealous.
Raddy is really rocking that.. whatever that style is called.
Can we all agree that secret rooms full of treasure are more exciting than buying gloves? The Marys did manage to be exciting, sometimes!
Mabel and Veronica remain the same.
By 1987, the year of me, things at St Elmo's had relaxed even more. It's a major Bummer that the creative teams were never properly credited! We've had ex-Bunty artists pop up in comments before.. spread the word!
Their teacher is getting younger, you can see. And curses! Raddy's lost the bouffant!
Mabel and Veronica are almost unrecognisable;
Whereas the adventures are by this point hip enough to still be hip now. Student protests! Wooo!
Some of them, anyway. My mum grew up doing exactly this actually, and that's not even a joke.
By the time I was reading, the Marys looked like this -
Which is the only picture I can find, from here.. I can't believe I lost those 90s issues. I have this exact panel!
It gets the job done, though. The Marys are all out of uniform - unheard of, in earlier years! Simpy's hair is not what it used to be and Cotty seems to have chilled out considerably. It's neat to see they retain recognisability, but honestly.. I might have more nostalgia for the versions who existed before I was born than the ones I read as a tot.
Sometimes before I go to sleep I imagine the Marys on the Venture Bros, and it's glorious.
So, chums.. what's your favorite girly comic? I bet it's ripping.
Stay tuned for tomorrow's theme: HEROES AND VILLAINS. dun dun dunnnn
And our full 30 Days of Winter calendar is here; don't get caught short!
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Left to right, we have feet of the Janes-the geek, the artist, the athlete, and the theater geek. However, though each have their strengths, they're hardly stereotypical (for instance, Main Jane, second from left, is really blonde and used to be shallow...until she was caught in a bomb attack and saved a man who fell into a coma, so the story's a lot about Main Jane becoming a new person and finding her best friends. There's also a sequel called "Janes in Love."
And again, another one I mentioned in another post is "Kimmie66":
The main character's name isTelly and she lives in the future where everyone has virtual reality goggles and interact with their avatars online (similar to a holodeck) during their free time (read: whenever not in school or work). Telly has 2 best friends she's never met in the real world except one of her best friends, Kimmie66, has just died...but is popping up all over the Net. Spooky...
Both graphic novels have strong female leads and a female-dominated cast, besides both main characters and their friends being awesome.
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And "Kimmie66" gets into mother-daughter relationships, the nature of death and immortality, paranoia (of course, since Telly seems to be the one who is seeing Kimmie66 the most), and true friendship.
Yeah, obviously I love these ones.
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And Chickadee-y, the chickadee.
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Don't know why, but I always had a weird affection for Mabel and Veronica... Interesting how their evilness is communicated through severe haircuts and a general air of slight butchiness. Check out Mabel's epic shoulders in that one panel!
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You're right, she is broad-beamed.
Suddenly I feel a great affection for the snobs - I too felt suffocated in my all-girls girly girl girl school and sought refuge in grumpy androgyny! Bunty speaks to every part of my life!
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Somehow I forgot Moore's weird... sex thing.
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I was born and raised in a place called Meaux . . .
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