Entries tagged with genre: graphic novels/comics/manga

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Who made this brilliant Calvin and Hobbes/Bohemian Rhapsody fusion?

A fancomic where Calvin appeals to his classmates and principal by singing “Bohemian Rhapsody”…abetted by his dad!

I’m familiar with Bill Watterson and Queen, of course; this has been making the rounds of Facebook, Imgur, and Tumblr since autumn 2023, but I’ve been unable to find a version that credits the fanartist who so cleverly fused the two—the lettering alone, including “Bismillah” in the original Arabic and the sudden gigantic red scare text of “BEELZEBUB”, is worthy of Joe Sabino. And the time frame is right: children in Calvin’s generational bracket would know this song as a favorite of their parents.)

(And, should Calvin’s dad actually happen to agree with his son’s grievance about school, you know he’d absolutely pull something like this.)

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Current Location: The Secret Archives of Love.
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Golden/early Silver Age romance comic with a masked host? (FOUND: Jon Juan #1.)

Okay; this one has been causing me a nagging itch in the brain. I recall having seen—probably on some incarnation of Scans Daily on another platform—a U.S. romance comic from the 1940’s or 1950’s that had an anthology host—something more characteristic of horror comics. He was a Zorroesque Masked Lover who narrated love stories throughout history (and may have been an immortal or time-traveler who’d personally witnessed/taken part in them); the specific story featured a girl who was concealing her blindness—which she felt made her unfit to marry.

Even after specifying romance, the sheer number of masquerade balls, highway robbers, masked vigilantes, and tragic disfigurements in the genre has made this a royal pain in the kazoo to Google.

ETA: FOUND: Jon Juan #1, with the help of

superfangirl1 on

scans_daily, who directed me to https://comicbookplus.com/, an online archive of public domain comics; there I found Great Lover Romances #1 (Toby/Minoan, 1951)—an anthology including a story starring a character called Jon Juan: https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=41459

That, in turn, gave me the search term I needed to track down Jon Juan’s own comic (under One Shots rather than Romance):
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=1829

Shout-out as well to the helpful folks at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books: https://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/2023/08/habo-vintage-comic-search/#comments

Jon Juan was an immortal from Atlantis who went swashbuckling through history, dallying with history’s legendary beauties and rescuing damsels from Durance Vile, only to ride off into the sunset as wandering adventurers are wont to do; this didn’t stop him from archiving cherished memories of all his paramours (housed in his own Inner Sanctum, the Secret Archives of Love.)

The story I remembered was “Lady in the Dark”, pp. 27-35; the setting is (19th-century?) Spain, and Jon Juan is dressing and comporting himself very much as a capa y espada adventurer—but it’s the titular Lady who wears a mask/veil, to disguise her condition; the Reveal, coming abruptly from her duenna, has the air of an ableist punch line: sorry, Carmelita has a ding in her, and that’s that.

It’s easy to see what doomed Jon Juan to be a one-off experiment: Spicy Adventure is a genre that Siegel and Schomberg couldn’t do justice to under the restrictions of 1950’s US comics, and romance readers tend to want commitment as a payoff. It’s still an exercise in delightful cracktacular weirditude, much like The Continental or Korla Pandit's Adventures In Music.

And here’s the

scans_daily post, from 14 January 2011: https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/2691288.html#cutid1

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Current Music: "Reading Rainbow" (as per the Doors) by Jimmy Fallon.

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Furry Freak Brothers story involving Fat Freddy misbehaving in a public library?

( Cut for profanity. )

ETA 5 December 2024: it’s “The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers go to COLLEGE!”, from The Collected Adventures of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers #1 (1971; Rip Off Press), by Gilbert Shelton.

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YA/Juvenile graphic novel POSSIBLE SPOILERS

******POSSIBLE SPOILERS******I think I must have read it somewhere between 2011-2015. It was a pretty dark book, and my older brother checked it out at the library, and he was probably between the ages of 11/15, so I doubt it was a juvenile book, probably YA, but it could have been juvenile. It was quite a few years ago, but I was just reminded of it. It was a graphic novel. Kind of gory towards the end, or maybe I just thought it was gory because I was, like, 10. I think it was about this super rich guy who married this peasant girl, and she was shook because she was poor, and was surprised because out of all of these equally high class female citizens who were always fawning after him, he chose her. But they got married and lived in his mansion or whatever. I don't think it was set in very modern times. Maybe it was just sort of anachronistic. The only part I kind of remember is when the husband was away, and it was storming, and the wife kept hearing these odd noises in the walls and around. But she played it off and pretended it was nothing, but it kept going and so she looked around for the source. I think she found this secret hatch in the wall, and when she opened it the remains of the husband's ex wife fell out. So the ex wife possessed the wife to get revenge on the husband or take the wife's place or something like that. towards what i think i remember is the end, the husband was, like, in the woods on his way home, and the ex wife (possessed or something by his current wife??) stopped him and he was super freaked out, and then i think it ended. I think the wife might have had a necklace with a pendant on it that was significant or something. i hope this is enough information. i'll update if i think of anything else. i already asked my brother but he didn't remember. thank you!!

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This is a book I read when I was probably in 3rd grade. It was about a boy who drew comics of this India Jones, action hero kind of character, except he could never draw the hands right and it was a big issue for him. I can't remember much of the middle part, but near the end, the boy's uncle, who has had no success in his play-writing endeavors, manages to write this amazing play and I think it helps the boy deal with some stuff that's been going on with his parents or his dad more specifically? But at the very very end, the boy walks up to his uncle and gives him a drawing as a gift, and the drawing is of a perfect hand. It was a really cute, heartwarming story with a lot of depth, and I really want to find it again so I can buy it for my niece! Any help would be greatly appreciated!

As a side note, I have it tagged as graphic novel because the boy's comics were actually drawn out in the book, but I'd say about 70% of it was regular chapter book style.

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A graphic novel I read in 2011-2012

I Read a graphic novel a while back, I can't remember most of it but I remember it was a hell of a good book. The art style was cartoonish Kinda like the walking dead cartoonish. Not Charlie Brown cartoonish. All of the pages were detailed and coloured in. I'm pretty sure it was about this kid I think he may have had a sister and may have had blonde hair, he lived with his mom but it was a crappy place. Beer bottles and cans everywhere, his mom was really chubby and sat in a chair, pretty sure she had blonde hair too. She seemed to be an alcoholic but she died in that chair and the boy freaked out then the ambulance came. Then I think maybe he got into a secret service and worked under cover???? I also remember a scene he was in highschool and I think he punched a girl and then the brother of that girl got mad at him and said something like "my sister had to get 6 stitches cause of you".....I also think he wore an orange shirt. I know this isn't much info but I would love to read that book again. Please help.

Who made this brilliant Calvin and Hobbes/Bohemian Rhapsody fusion?

Golden/early Silver Age romance comic with a masked host? (FOUND: Jon Juan #1.)

Furry Freak Brothers story involving Fat Freddy misbehaving in a public library?

YA/Juvenile graphic novel ***POSSIBLE SPOILERS***

Can't Remeber Title

A graphic novel I read in 2011-2012

YA/Juvenile graphic novel POSSIBLE SPOILERS