G-g-g-girls' comics!
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scans_dailyTime for a bit more of this, I think:
And we're in the dark days now, the beginning of the end. Which is also when I was a reader, just about. These were the tales that made me a comics-fan.
Or maybe I should say, this was the art?
Bunty was the personification of the magazine who dealt with HILARIOUS PROBLEMS every week. It was very relevant and on-the-button. But the line art is so great! It's simple and done fast, but by one skilled hand.
We've also got a bit of THE COMP for today! The Comp was introduced in.. the eighties? I think? And featured as it's main characters a bunch of girls who all went to school together, the draw being that they were in a NORMAL COMREHENSIVE, rather than a boarding school like the Four Marys, and also that there were boys there. Which just brought in SO many opportunities for hijinks!
La:
The first bubble here says: "he's so dreamy!". Of course.
Ru-roh!
Yup - hot boys, smart girls going gooey, and mean girls. Oh Bunty, where were all the injured yet persevering ballet dancers in 1990?
Sigh.
And we're in the dark days now, the beginning of the end. Which is also when I was a reader, just about. These were the tales that made me a comics-fan.
Or maybe I should say, this was the art?
Bunty was the personification of the magazine who dealt with HILARIOUS PROBLEMS every week. It was very relevant and on-the-button. But the line art is so great! It's simple and done fast, but by one skilled hand.
We've also got a bit of THE COMP for today! The Comp was introduced in.. the eighties? I think? And featured as it's main characters a bunch of girls who all went to school together, the draw being that they were in a NORMAL COMREHENSIVE, rather than a boarding school like the Four Marys, and also that there were boys there. Which just brought in SO many opportunities for hijinks!
La:
The first bubble here says: "he's so dreamy!". Of course.
Ru-roh!
Yup - hot boys, smart girls going gooey, and mean girls. Oh Bunty, where were all the injured yet persevering ballet dancers in 1990?
Sigh.
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Date: 2011-05-20 08:56 pm (UTC)That. sounds. marvellous. You should post some! Particularly the ghost stories, I was obsessed with those at around the same age as I was reading Bunty, and I'd love to try and evaluate them from a 9-year-old mind set. xD
There's just so much evidence that girls love fantasy and sci-fi and supernatural stories (and that women are wonderfully talented at writing them) yet it's so often overlooked. I feel that if most comic writers were asked to come up with a premise for a story aimed at teen girls, they would instinctively plump for some mundane story about school life or everyday relationship dramas, because... that's just the stereotype about what girls want?
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Date: 2011-05-20 09:06 pm (UTC)The hardest part is managing to trim the stories down into a third of the full length, because they only run up to (rarely) eight pages long, a lot of them technically being serials. It's hard to keep things coherent without diluting the crack.
But I shall try!!
My favourite ghost story (I have no idea why) was in an annual I haven't seen for at least decade, where an injured ice skater is visited by the country's top coach (who gave up skating as a girl due to a similar injury, I think?) who encourages her not to give up. So the girl does the audition-skate, and "gets in" (where? who knows!), and goes back to visit the coach but..
..THE COACH HAD BEEN DEAD ALL ALOOOOONG
It's such a non-ghosty ghost story, and so ultimately pointless, but there was just something about it.