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Post by beccabear67 on Feb 20, 2019 21:48:17 GMT -5
I would be most comforted by some Peanuts paperbacks or some of the Dell Pogo comics I suspect. 'Happiness is a warm puppy paperback', and 'I have seen the kids Pogo comics and he is cute'.  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2019 2:49:35 GMT -5
I wanted to add Pogo to the mix and along with Calvin and Hobbes too ...
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Post by Cei-U! on Feb 21, 2019 10:02:41 GMT -5
I should've mentioned Calvin & Hobbes too, since I have the complete run in trades. Love that strip!
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Post by brutalis on Feb 21, 2019 10:17:19 GMT -5
I should've mentioned Calvin & Hobbes too, since I have the complete run in trades. Love that strip! Cei-U! I summon Spaceman Spiff! Indeed! I also have the complete run in trades. Captures the pure joys of childhood so perfectly. I truly love Calvin's imagination and creativity, especially for creating snow man scenarios! Exactly the type of sculpting I would endeavor upon if I lived in snow country. And who doesn't understand your stuffed tiger is the truest personification of a best friend? Always there for you, part of your every adventure and never ending love and support and always takes the blame for you  |
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Post by MDG on Feb 21, 2019 11:26:56 GMT -5
My box of Undergrounds
Anything by Spain or Kim Deitch
Silver Age DCs
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Post by Confessor on Feb 21, 2019 11:48:22 GMT -5
For me, any issue of Amazing Spider-Man or Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man published from those series inception up until around 1987 or so is a guaranteed feel good comic for me.
Pretty much any issue of Marvel's original Star Wars comic.
Any of the Tintin books (excluding the first two).
Any MAD paperback from the 60s or 70s.
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Post by shaxper on Feb 21, 2019 12:12:29 GMT -5
A Contract with God: While the anthology depicts a series of lives in crisis, Will Eisner has this magical way of making you feel like it's all going to be okay, even without providing some artificial big happy ending.
X-Men #153: Kitty's Fairytale: The ridiculous fantasy parody of the events of the Dark Phoenix Saga which lifts the X-Men themselves out of their depression. Always puts a smile on my face.
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Post by MWGallaher on Feb 21, 2019 13:19:57 GMT -5
In addition to my Pogo collections, I can always cheer myself up with a browse through my Little Lulu collections by John Stanley and Nancy collections by Ernie Bushmiller.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 21, 2019 13:51:09 GMT -5
Any MAD paperback from the 60s or 70s. Oh yeah. Mad from any point prior to about 1980 will always put a smile on my face and give me those warm nostalgia fuzzies. |
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Post by shaxper on Feb 21, 2019 15:57:14 GMT -5
In addition to my Pogo collections, I can always cheer myself up with a browse through my Little Lulu collections by John Stanley and Nancy collections by Ernie Bushmiller. I need to check out Little Lulu. |
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Post by brutalis on Feb 21, 2019 16:40:43 GMT -5
In addition to my Pogo collections, I can always cheer myself up with a browse through my Little Lulu collections by John Stanley and Nancy collections by Ernie Bushmiller. I need to check out Little Lulu. That just comes out sounding wrong in so many ways  |
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Post by shaxper on Feb 21, 2019 16:43:56 GMT -5
I need to check out Little Lulu. That just comes out sounding wrong in so many ways It's all good. She's older than I am 😉 |
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Post by berkley on Feb 22, 2019 3:00:58 GMT -5
A really good question that I find hard to answer at the moment, I suppose because almost all of my classic comics reading the last few years has been stuff that's new to me.
I definitely have had comfort reads in the past - 60s & 70s Marvel (and a few isolated things from other publishers), Kirby's solo work, Schulz's Peanuts, the Hernandez's Love and Rockets, Clowes's Eightball and Lloyd Llewellyn, ... - I've certainly read and re-read things like that multiple times and derived deep satisfaction from the experience.
And I hope and imagine that those will continue to work for me in the future, but in all honesty I don't feel any urge to actually read any of that stuff at the moment. I'm more in the discovery stage - even though my "discoveries" are mostly things from long ago that I'm only getting to know long after everyone else.
I've been very remiss the past several years in keeping up with the contemporary scene, not only in comics but with books as well - and there too, it's because I've been discovering "new" (old) books. But soon, soon ...
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Post by brutalis on Feb 22, 2019 8:22:31 GMT -5
With all the reminds here of how good Pogo is I pulled the trigger and ordered the box set for Books 1 and 2 from Amazon. I can remember seeing Pogo from my childhood but have no real memories beyond that. Should be a great reading down the line and seeing if it bumps my remembrance any.
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 22, 2019 9:05:20 GMT -5
I never read pogo. Is it a humor strip or political?
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