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TPB's or Novellas for the Female

klinkklink Registered User new member
edited December 2007 in Graphic Violence
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

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  • HooraydiationHooraydiation Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Vampire Loves by France's Joann Sfar, the Scott Pilgrim series by Bryan Lee O'Malley, and Blue Monday and Scooter Girl by Chynna Clugston Major are the few romance-oriented books that come to mind for me.

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  • KVWKVW Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Strangers in Paradise might be a good choice. Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane might appeal to her as well. Pretty much a highschool teen girl drama that just happens to have Spider-Man characters in it. There's no focus on heroing or villain of the week stuff. I actually enjoy it, but rarely admit it due to the whole 'the book is for girls' stigma. It's actually a really good book though. I think she'd probably like Runaways or, if she's a Buffy fan, Whedon's Season 8 Buffy comic.

    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.

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  • ZeromusZeromus Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Scott Pilgrim.

    Edit: Oh damn, I was beaten to it. Check out this list for some more ideas.

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  • MunchMunch Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    In my experience, Y the Last Man, Sandman, and Fables all tend to be pretty popular with women for some reason. I'd also recommend Hopeless Savages for something upbeat and fun, and the complete works of Jason for some of that dry, Clowes-y humor with a dash of dysfunctional relationships and misery.

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  • ZeromusZeromus Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Jordyn is a woman and she likes normal comics.

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  • Mai-KeroMai-Kero Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Kill Your Boyfriend by Grant Morrison.

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  • HooraydiationHooraydiation Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Mai-Kero wrote: »
    Kill Your Boyfriend by Grant Morrison.

    You don't want to give her ideas!

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  • ZeromusZeromus Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    American Virgin, despite appearances and general marketing, is probably something a girl would like.

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  • Mai-KeroMai-Kero Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Mai-Kero wrote: »
    Kill Your Boyfriend by Grant Morrison.

    You don't want to give her ideas!

    Yes I do!

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  • JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp. I can show you how to be a real man!Moderator mod
    edited November 2007
    Strangers in Paradise, Y, and Blue Monday were really good suggestions. To them I'd add Box Office Poison (available in a single handy tpb!), Breakfast After Noon (ditto!) and a couple volumes of Artbabe.

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  • The_LightbringerThe_Lightbringer Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Its pretty much a superheroics comic but runaways is pretty good. My sis likes reading it.

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  • hughtronhughtron __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2007
    There is tons of great, 'girly' manga.

    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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  • JordynJordyn Really, Commander? Probing Uranus. Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Anything that doesn't suck.

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  • ZeromusZeromus Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    See that's the thing

    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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  • deadonthestreetdeadonthestreet Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Runaways.

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  • BlackjackBlackjack Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    If you can find it, get her Alias by Brian Bendis.

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  • ZeromusZeromus Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    I'd say Ultimate Spider-Man would also be a pretty good bet. Lots of innocent fun with teen drama and colorful super villains. Girls like colors, you see.

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  • JordynJordyn Really, Commander? Probing Uranus. Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    We got some of my bridesmaids the first Invincible hardcover.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Jordyn wrote: »
    We got some of my bridesmaids the first Invincible hardcover.

    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."

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  • JordynJordyn Really, Commander? Probing Uranus. Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    The groomsmen got personalized swiss army knives.

    Except for my little brother, he got a sword.

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  • The_LightbringerThe_Lightbringer Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Zeromus wrote: »
    See that's the thing

    Why wouldn't a girl just like any old comic that a dude would like? Buy her From Hell and The Filth.

    Not such a hot idea

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  • DoodmannDoodmann Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Jordyn wrote: »
    Anything that doesn't suck.

    Planetary *see above*

    It's not a "girl" comic but I don't give a damn and cannot recommend it enough.

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  • The_LightbringerThe_Lightbringer Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Doodmann wrote: »
    Jordyn wrote: »
    Anything that doesn't suck.

    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

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  • HooraydiationHooraydiation Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Did everyone only read the thread title? Planetary, From Hell, and The Filth are hardly romantic.

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  • ZeromusZeromus Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    My suggestions of From Hell and The Filth were not meant to be taken seriously.

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  • ben0207ben0207 Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    NextWave!

    (for those keeping trck - yes, I intend to recommend this to everyone and everything)

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  • ServoServo Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited November 2007
    Did everyone only read the thread title? Planetary, From Hell, and The Filth are hardly romantic.

    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.

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  • HooraydiationHooraydiation Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Servo wrote: »
    Did everyone only read the thread title? Planetary, From Hell, and The Filth are hardly romantic.

    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.

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  • ServoServo Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited November 2007
    because he's a liar who is trying to trick us

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  • ZeromusZeromus Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Green Arrow written by Kevin Smith has plenty of romance and is completely awesome in every way!

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  • projectmayhemprojectmayhem Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    shazam_monster_society-777164.jpg I feel that anyone can enjoy this.

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  • HooraydiationHooraydiation Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Oh man, if you're going to recommend Jeff Smith you cannot overlook Bone.

    There's a bit of an unrequited love subplot in there too.

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  • durandal4532durandal4532 Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Transmetropolitan. If she's even vaguely liberal, she'll dig it. She'll also dig it if she thinks words like "whorehopper" are hilarious.

    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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  • IllyriaIllyria __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2007
    Y: The Last Man

    Pride of Baghdad

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  • JordynJordyn Really, Commander? Probing Uranus. Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    ooh hey

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  • BlackjackBlackjack Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    She might like the Emma Frost mini, if she can get over the frankly retarded covers by Greg Horn (although I think the TPBs used different, better, covers).

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  • ManonvonSuperockManonvonSuperock Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Zeromus wrote: »
    Green Arrow written by Kevin Smith has plenty of romance and is completely awesome in every way!

    Kevin Smith can't write a comic without:

    1. mentioning one or more female character "PMS-ing"

    2. rape

    3. heroine

    so, yeah. it sounds up your alley.

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  • SalmonOfDoubtSalmonOfDoubt Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Blackjack wrote: »
    She might like the Emma Frost mini, if she can get over the frankly retarded covers by Greg Horn (although I think the TPBs used different, better, covers).

    No shut up no one should ever read that horrid thing


    no one


    not even hitler

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    PiptheFair wrote: »
    killing children would be hilarious
    Olivaw wrote: »
    HELLO AND WELCOME TO THE PENNY ARCADE FORUMS

    PLEASE ENJOY YOUR STAY

    AND THIS PENIS
    Man, I don't want to read about this lady's broken vagina.
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  • BlackjackBlackjack Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Blackjack wrote: »
    She might like the Emma Frost mini, if she can get over the frankly retarded covers by Greg Horn (although I think the TPBs used different, better, covers).

    No shut up no one should ever read that horrid thing


    no one


    not even hitler
    Yeah? Okay. I never read it, but remember hearing that it's not too bad for the ones with girl parts.

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  • deadonthestreetdeadonthestreet Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Also, Spider-Man Blue

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