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General Category => Comic Related Discussion => Topic started by: EddieCampbell on March 05, 2013, 10:03:10 PM
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somebody tell JVJ I'm really enjoying these old romance comics. The current Boy Meets Girl is a great collection!!
MORE!
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Jim is a member here Eddie. I'm betting he likes hearing members are enjoying the scans.
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It probably has something to do with the fact that the highest paying market for illustration in the post- war years was in the women's magazines, and that every ambitious illustrator had his eye on that, but I am sure that I see so many of these artists putting in a better effort on the romance comics than they tend to do in other areas. I see it in the use of photographic reference for instance, and a striving to make the girls prettier, and everything else more realistic. I find Kida's work on Boy meets Girl to be a revelation, but there are many other artists similarly inspired to work a little harder.
Admittedly I have to turn a lot of pages to find the good stuff, as in other areas, but I do get a better return for the effort in these romance things.
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I tend to ignore the romance books. You make a point that will have me taking a look through some of the 50's books.
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Hi Eddie,
You make a good argument for members here to give them a look. Well said.
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I scan them, but I don't read them.
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They deserve to be viewable - in samples, at least.
And hold on to your pants, Eddie. I will be uploading some more from ACE.
And even requested more stuff from other companies, coming up in summer...
Romance never dies.
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And Boy Loves Girl is up to the period when Alex Toth contributed a few stories ( see #43, just uploaded). I know there at least two others, and hopefully more than that. keep 'em coming!
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somebody tell JVJ I'm really enjoying these old romance comics. The current Boy Meets Girl is a great collection!!
MORE!
You beat me to it Eddie. I was just going to send ((((CYBER HUGS :hug: :hug: :hug:))) TO JVJ, rangerhouse and movielover for their great work these past few weeks in uploading more of one of my favourite comic topics-romance books. I know there are a lot more out there and cant wait for what ever gem is found and shared. You guys are the Best!!
Net. ;D
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It's nice to see members happy and hugging Ranger and ML for all the work they've done to bring JVJ's romance books to cyberspace.
Thanks guys! :)
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Jumping in to add my thanks for the romance issues. I've collected pre-code issues when I could find them in my price range. As far as reading them I've read quite a few and they are way more interesting than code issues which are really bland and predictable. Exciting Romances #6 from Fawcett is one I scanned a long time ago. The opening story is "In the name of Love" and the story revolves around love, money, college basketball, gamblers and point shaving. Which in 1951 is ripped right out of the sports headlines.
Additionally the art is really quite excellent as others have pointed out. Well worth making an effort to explore. Fawcett, St John, Standard, Hillman and Ace are the best imho.
KF
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Glad you are liking.
Upcoming, Youthful's Romances and Orbit's Love Diary
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Hi King!
Great to hear from you here. :)
As ML mentions, we've got a whole pile of romance coming down the pike soon.
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It probably has something to do with the fact that the highest paying market for illustration in the post- war years was in the women's magazines, and that every ambitious illustrator had his eye on that, but I am sure that I see so many of these artists putting in a better effort on the romance comics than they tend to do in other areas. I see it in the use of photographic reference for instance, and a striving to make the girls prettier, and everything else more realistic. I find Kida's work on Boy meets Girl to be a revelation, but there are many other artists similarly inspired to work a little harder.
Admittedly I have to turn a lot of pages to find the good stuff, as in other areas, but I do get a better return for the effort in these romance things.
Good point about some cartoonists of that era giving an extra umph to some of their romance work. What I find the most mind-boggling is comparing Dick Briefer's romance work (very thin line stylized and composed) with his Frankenstein and other work (swashy brush and very active feel). It's like two separate artists. I still can't quite reconcile that.
--Poz
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I still can't bring myself to READ most of the romance books. But I can admire the art without reading on a lot of them. Frazetta, Baker, LB Cole are just the first three names that come to mind.
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I generally avoid 'romance' titles too. But maybe, if someone could point to a BEST-OF list or compendium, I could be persuaded...
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At the risk of hyping my own scans, look at Personal Love from Eastern. Thanks to JVJ we have several Frazetta stories that are just spectacular.
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Ohh, good choice.
Do a search for Frazetta and those issues should turn up.