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TPB's or Novellas for the Female
klink
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Hello, I am an avid trade reader, but mostly I am into the non-superheroish stuff (Clowes, Tomine)...Anyway, does anyone have any good suggestions for something a female reader might enjoy. Books along the lines of Blankets by Craig Thompson.
It's tough finding people talking about these types of things. I just needed a little direction.
I know that she enjoyed Ghost World a little bit. I think something more love story oriented would be great.
any suggestions? thx
It's tough finding people talking about these types of things. I just needed a little direction.
I know that she enjoyed Ghost World a little bit. I think something more love story oriented would be great.
any suggestions? thx
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Also, manga is an excellent source for female oriented works. Tsubasa Resevoir Chronicles, School Rumble (highschool comedy / love story), Fruits Basket, Inu Yasha and so on are all popular manga that have either a neutral orientation or are written towards females in general. There's actually dozens and dozens of choices from manga that you would be hardpressed to find for conventional comics.
Edit: Oh damn, I was beaten to it. Check out this list for some more ideas.
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You don't want to give her ideas!
Yes I do!
What's Micheal is about, uh, cats. They, uh, do cat things? It's super hard to describe, but I know my wife loves it, and if your girlfriend is into cats, then she would probably like it. Anybody who likes cats seems to like 'What's Micheal.'
Aria is another great manga for girls (and anybody, really). ADV put out three volumes and then cancelled it, but Tokyopop has picked it up, along with its prequel series Aqua. Basically it's about a bunch of girls who live on Mars and do whimsical things in a gorgeous fantasy world.
Sexy Voice and Robo is a really amazing-looking art-manga about a girl detective who is also a 'date-line' operator. It's kind of like Veronica Mars, but not really at all.
In non-manga works, Hope Larson's Salamander Dream and Grey Horses are both stellar comics, dealing with growing up and love and distance and all those wonderful things. You can read Salamander Dream in its entirety here, if you want, although Adhouse books put out a really nice book version.
And Lost At Sea, the comic that Bryan Lee O'Malley did before Scott Pilgrim, is a great bit of introspective, angsty teen drama. It's about four kids just out of high school who are on a road trip from California to Ontario, and the self-discoveries they make along the way.
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Why wouldn't a girl just like any old comic that a dude would like? Buy her From Hell and The Filth.
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Best wedding ever.
What did the groomsmen get?
Oh, and I'd recommend the "Death" books - "High Cost of Living" and "The Time of Your Life."
Except for my little brother, he got a sword.
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Not such a hot idea
Planetary *see above*
It's not a "girl" comic but I don't give a damn and cannot recommend it enough.
This man speaks truth
(for those keeping trck - yes, I intend to recommend this to everyone and everything)
it says 'for the female', not 'for a rom-com zombie' (romcomzom?)
i generally assume that girls (people in general, really) don't dislike comics because they're too testeosterrific, but because they think they're all poorly written junk. thus, i would rather give someone something well written and interesting (like from hell, though i wouldn't give anyone my copy of from hell as the damn thing cost like thirty-five bucks and i already spilled enough water on it thank you very much) over giving them something i assume they're gender-encoded to like.
That's a fair approach in general, but I don't see why we shouldn't trust the OP when he says that romance comics may in fact be appropriate for the girl in question, even if the same cannot be said for all girls.
There's a bit of an unrequited love subplot in there too.
Personally, I think it's the same exact thing as "recommend for the non-comic-reader". My lady-friend has liked a lot of indy humor comic stuff, Transmet, Scott Pilgrim, and V for Vendetta.
The major difference here is that to a person un-versed in comics, "super-people" is a genre. I happen to dig Invincible in a different way than I do Spider-Man, but from the outside they both look like person-with-great-power-story-time.
Any interests she has, see if you can find stuff that suits them. Anything that moved you and didn't involve Batman's parents dying? That's good too. "The Walking Dead" is a romantic gift for a female person who enjoys zombies a ton.
My only real straight-up romance recommendation is Scott Pilgrim. It's a nice, light, really funny story that is basically a soap opera and it is awesomely fun.
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Kevin Smith can't write a comic without:
1. mentioning one or more female character "PMS-ing"
2. rape
3. heroine
No shut up no one should ever read that horrid thing
no one
not even hitler
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