jenneferh2000

I would love to hear about unschooler's favorite comics! Please pass
on some recommendations.

Jennefer in Oregon

Dana Matt

> I would love to hear about unschooler's favorite
> comics! Please pass
> on some recommendations.
>
My 7 yo boy discovered Garfield on Disney channel at
11:30 every night, and because of that discovered that
Garfield is also in the Sunday paper, and then
discovered that our library also has his
books....Those are his favorites. He also likes Magna
books based on Kim Possible, Fairly Odd PArents, and
Spongebob Squarepants.

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jenneferh2000 wrote:

> I would love to hear about unschooler's favorite comics! Please pass
> on some recommendations.
>
> Jennefer in Oregon
>
Not sure hoe old your kids are, but I have a great love, bordering on
obsession for Neil Gaiman's comics....and Neil too.
That would be the whole Sandman series (that's 11 trade paper backs
beginning with Preludes and Nocturnes, my 13 year old really likes them
too.), 1602, Stardust (which is both a graphic novel and just a novel)
and Death;The High Cost of Living and Book of Magic (which has a hero
that is strangely reminisant of another young wizard with glasses...but
came out a few years before Harry Potter) are my favorite of what he has
done. 1602 and Books of Magic are ones folks would feel comfortable not
previewing for their non-teens. The other ones are considered adult
comics which means there is in one form or another graphic violence,
sex, nekkidness, or just really, really gruesome. These are all in trade
paperback (which would be a collected story arc) or graphic novel form
now and a lot of libraries have them.
I still buy Hellblazer comics as they come out, if you saw the movie
Constantine that is the character in them...even if Hollywood screwed
him up some. Horror and supernatural. These are also adult.
Priest...also adult but sooooo good.
Plastic Man is funny.
There is always X-Men and such.
The Grimore was a new series that came out a few months ago with a
female heroine that we liked but did not continue buying.

Most comic-book store owners and clerks are really help-ful and can
steer you and your children toward what will fit the bill depending on
what you like....action, adventure, horror, supernatural, or just plain
funny.




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Julie W

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kraekrej

--- In [email protected], "jenneferh2000"
<jenneferh2000@y...> wrote:
> I would love to hear about unschooler's favorite comics! Please pass
> on some recommendations.
>
> Jennefer in Oregon

6 yo Ellis loves almost everything from the Sunday comics. In book
form, he's fond of Garfield, Dilbert and Foxtrot and he's got several
storybook types of SpongeBob, Jimmy Neutron, ScoobyDoo and Fairly
Oddparents.

He likes the covers of DragonBallZ but isn't interested in looking
inside when we find them at the bookstore.

Kathy

jfetteroll

**I would love to hear about unschooler's favorite comics! Please
pass on some recommendations.**

Kathryn is drawn to humorous comics with well drawn
characters:

Calvin and Hobbes
Garfield
Foxtrot

Webcomics:

RÁRÓMON and CaRlMaCs (which my daughter Kathryn has
been writing for about 6 years since she was about 7 <g> It's
now a webcomic at http://avnhisky.keenspace.com So far there
are 4 3-page chapters of her comic up there.

Keenspace provides free space for anyone who wants to put up
a regularly updated comic. (They just changed their name to
ComicGenesis (http://www.comicgenesis.com) They host over
8000 webcomics so there's lots to choose from. :-) Click on the
"locate more GUIDE" graphic to the right of the Search box.
If you
scroll about halfway down there's a box with categories. If you
click on one of the categories it takes you to a page with
descriptions.

Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire (www.dominic-deegan.com/)
Medieval fantasy. Though it's a 4 panel gag strip it has an
ongoing and complex story line. (It starts off as just gags for
several strips until he finds a story for the characters and it takes
off. Michael "Mookie" Terracciano is also a funny interesting
speaker about writing if you ever happen across a comic/anime
convention where he's a guest. :-)

The Mows (rhymes with cows): They're kitties. They're
adorable.
(Kathryn would say that's redundant. :-)

Megatokyo: American manga. It's a very popular webcomic (http://
www.megatokyo.com) that's been released in 3 books so far.
Angsty lighthearted story about two polar opposite guys stranded
in Tokyo without enough money to get back home. The
subcharacters and subplots are mysterious and intriguing. It's
much easier to read in book form since his pace of updating the
site is widely complained about -- but people still keep reading :-
)

Manga:

Oh, My Goddess: a guy makes a wish and gets a goddess as a
girlfriend.

Rurouni Kenshin: historical samurai fiction, at the end of the
Meiji era a former assassin for the Emperor's side has vowed
not to use his sword for killing again but others would rather use
his incomparable skills for their own purposes.

Aria: sci-fi fantasy taking place on a recreated ideal Venice on
Mars about finding joy in living basically :-) Very sweet.)

Case Closed: teen genius detective turned by a poison into a 6-
yo boy genius detective -- but he can't let anyone know since the
bad guys are still out to get him so he has to let the arrogant
incompetent "professional" detective get the credit.

Et Cetera: young Chinese girl in the wild west with a mysterious
gun created by her grandfather that many villains are trying to
acquire.

Sgt. Frog: a frog alien part of an invading force bent on taking
over the world is goes it alone when he's abandoned but keeps
getting side tracked. Goofy fun.

Vampire Game: a former vampire killed generations ago is
reincarnated in the body of a cat. He seeks revenge on the
reincarnation of the king who killed him. Despite the description,
it's lighthearted fun. :-)

Ph.D.: A seemingly naive girl searching for a ring joins a school
for demons. But she's more than she seems. And the ring is
more than it seems. And there's more going on than many
realize.

Tactics: A demonologist and the demon-eater he's released.

Legendz: Similar to Pokémon with kids owning creatures they
care for and battle against each other.

Pita-Ten: a goofy angel watching over a boy. The boy is going
through the motions of being normal but he lost his mother in an
accident and his father has become a workaholic. It's zany fun
overlaying a deeper story. (Not that you'd know that from the first
book which seemed to be just zany and plotless. ;-)

Angelic Layer: Similar to Pokémon but with battling dolls. Very
sweet and a good beginning to manga since it's a short series,
only 4 books.)

Saiyuki: based loosely on the ancient and still popular Chinese
Monkey King tales in Journey to the West. A world where
demons and humans lived peaceably until someone began
releasing the confined demon who wanted them to live
separately.

InuYasha: a school girl is thrown into the medieval past to find
she's the reincarnation of the priestess and former love of a half-
dog demon. They have to work together to reclaim all the shards
of the Shikon Jewel that give great powers to demons, and battle
one half-demon in particular who has nearly all of the shards.

Tokyo Mew Mew: school girls who turn into part furries and battle
evil.

Maniac Road: Story about a passionate manager and the
inheritors of a little anime/manga shop with big ambitions.

Joyce

wifetovegman2002

--- In [email protected], "jenneferh2000"
<jenneferh2000@y...> wrote:
> I would love to hear about unschooler's favorite comics! Please pass
> on some recommendations.
>
> Jennefer in Oregon


Anything in the manga section of the bookstore, but especially those
based on his favorite tv shows like Kenshin. My son started reading
at 12 because I saw someone mention Kenshin manga here on this list
and I bought the first one for Andrew. I couldn't get time to read to
him until after dinner, and so he took the book and went up to his
room. He came back down two hours later to tell me he had read the
book twice!

Two years later he still can't get enough of them, and he spends all
his nickels on books. :-)

Shields

--- In [email protected], "jenneferh2000"
<jenneferh2000@y...> wrote:
> I would love to hear about unschooler's favorite comics! Please pass
> on some recommendations.
>
> Jennefer in Oregon

Chloe's favorites are Far Side, Calvin & Hobbes, Baby Blues and Tintin. We
have all of these in book form. She especially loves to spout out Far
Side's and seems to come up with them for almost any occasion!
Kristin

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Marjorie

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People aren't writing about comic books proper here. <g>
I don't have recommendations. My kids go for the bigger books too, rather
than the individual comics.

Both my boys discovered ElfQuest a few years back and then were excited to
further discover their dad had the first several books already on a shelf in the
library. (And he was excited to find there were new ones being produced,
so they were all on an ElfQuest binge for a while, and Kirby bought a CD of
Elfquest songs.)

Marty had read all the Sin City stuff before the movie came out recently.

Bone was one they read some years back too.

Holly was reading Futurama comics for a while.

Sandra


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Shields

Sorry if this has already been mentioned, but the July/August 05' issue of
Live Free Learn Free has a nice article on comic books called Unschooling
with Superheroes. The title of the article seems to be changed in the
printed issue.

http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/current.htm

Kristin

Dawn Adams

Chloe's favorites are Far Side, Calvin & Hobbes, Baby Blues and Tintin. We
have all of these in book form. She especially loves to spout out Far
Side's and seems to come up with them for almost any occasion!
Kristin
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Pffft. Those are comics, not comic books. :)

I'm with Sandra on the Elfquest books, those were amazing. I have stacks of X-Men, Alpha Flight (Canadian team that was introduced in X-Men), Fantastic Four, Avengers, New Mutants, etc., etc. in plastic bags in my basement. Once we have the room to drag them out I imagine I'll be reading them to Catherine. I was mostly a Marvel fan but did stray into DC once in awhile and never reallt tried any independents but that's mostly because I couldn't get them.

Dawn






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Julie W

Dawn Adams wrote:

>
> Chloe's favorites are Far Side, Calvin & Hobbes, Baby Blues and
> Tintin. We
> have all of these in book form. She especially loves to spout out Far
> Side's and seems to come up with them for almost any occasion!
> Kristin
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> Pffft. Those are comics, not comic books. :)

~snort~
Like I said Sandman, Sandman, Sandman with a little Hellbalzer and
Swampthing on the side.
I guess I need to go start on Elfquest.....

>
> I'm with Sandra on the Elfquest books, those were amazing. I have
> stacks of X-Men, Alpha Flight (Canadian team that was introduced in
> X-Men), Fantastic Four, Avengers, New Mutants, etc., etc. in plastic
> bags in my basement. Once we have the room to drag them out I imagine
> I'll be reading them to Catherine. I was mostly a Marvel fan but did
> stray into DC once in awhile and never reallt tried any independents
> but that's mostly because I couldn't get them.
>
> Dawn

I've always liked Vertigo (part of DC), but Speakeasy Comics is a new
publishing company the puts out that new comic, The Grimorie I
mentioned...the art on these is so lush. They have a number of new
titles that look good.
At the moment, except for Hellblazer, I don't buy anything monthly.
Pretty much everything I like is now in TPB form.
I forgot to mention Fables, that's a comic that is still being produced
monthly that I really enjoy.
I forgot to mention Josh likes Justice League Elite and Teen Titans (not
the CartoonNetwork one....but that is funny) but the real Teen Titans.
If folks have younger kids Cartoon Network does have a line of comic
books based on their tv cartoons ALSO The Simpsons comic books are
always funny.
How could I forget Books of Magick: Life During Wartime? I am also
buying this one, but it helps to have read some of Books of Magic that
Neil Gaimn put and to have an awareness of John Constantine...at least
it makes the reading more enjoyable.

For the comic novice:
It is hard to get into a comic after it is being produced. You can go
back to issue #1 (and I don't mean like Superman #1, but right now Joss
Whedon is writing Astonishing X-man and is on issue 11 or 12, so you
could go back to issue #1 of those or they are doing a story arc right
now for each of the X-men and you could start at issue #1 of
Nightcrawler) or you can start within a specific comic, but at the
beginning of a new story arc and follow it through.Comic book shops have
backissues or you can order online.....

The reason I forgot the other comic I'm buying monthly is that a lot of
times I don't buy monthly. Sometimes I really need a fix and buy from my
local comic book store (which everyone should.... these guys are mostly
scraping by and its nice to be able to stop in and have a warm body to
talk too about new issues and such) or I will go a few months and then
order all the issues I have missed from::
http://www.mycomicshop.com/
Decent shipping prices and a ok turn around time. You can also get onto
their subscription service where they will send you a monthly package
with all the new issues of the comics you are reading.
There are also a few places online to read comic reviews and keep up
with industry information:
http://www.comicreaders.com/
http://www.comicon.com/thebeat/
http://www.sequentialtart.com/home.shtml
http://www.comicsworthreading.com/
http://www.comicon.com/
http://www.comicscontinuum.com/

And if you want to continue reading and enjoying comics please support
the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund:
http://www.cbldf.org/
Yes folks there are those out there who really find comic books
offensive (especially ones written for adults) and could care less about
your rights to read and view what you want and since its comic books the
ACLU (cause really comics are just not that important in a number of
folks opinion) really does not get involved in all the cases out
there...that's where CBLDF comes in. Mostly they fight for comic book
store owners who get hauled in on local obscenity charges...sheesh.

I think I'm done.
Julie W in AR

Dawn Adams

Excellent post. And a great idea about the Joss Whedon books. It's hard for me to get my hands on comic books (distribution really sucks these days. When I started every corner store ha a rack, now I rarely see them outside a comic book store) but I have coveted the Astonishing X-Men since I saw it in Wizard Magazine. His writing seems fantastic, the art is wonderful and respectful and it's got Kitty Pryde (whoo hoo!).
But the story arcs and multiple titles are more of the reason why I don't buy anymore. It would take a lot to get back into those books again.

Dawn




I've always liked Vertigo (part of DC), but Speakeasy Comics is a new
publishing company the puts out that new comic, The Grimorie I
mentioned...the art on these is so lush. They have a number of new
titles that look good.
At the moment, except for Hellblazer, I don't buy anything monthly.
Pretty much everything I like is now in TPB form.
I forgot to mention Fables, that's a comic that is still being produced
monthly that I really enjoy.
I forgot to mention Josh likes Justice League Elite and Teen Titans (not
the CartoonNetwork one....but that is funny) but the real Teen Titans.
If folks have younger kids Cartoon Network does have a line of comic
books based on their tv cartoons ALSO The Simpsons comic books are
always funny.
How could I forget Books of Magick: Life During Wartime? I am also
buying this one, but it helps to have read some of Books of Magic that
Neil Gaimn put and to have an awareness of John Constantine...at least
it makes the reading more enjoyable.

For the comic novice:
It is hard to get into a comic after it is being produced. You can go
back to issue #1 (and I don't mean like Superman #1, but right now Joss
Whedon is writing Astonishing X-man and is on issue 11 or 12, so you
could go back to issue #1 of those or they are doing a story arc right
now for each of the X-men and you could start at issue #1 of
Nightcrawler) or you can start within a specific comic, but at the
beginning of a new story arc and follow it through.Comic book shops have
backissues or you can order online.....

The reason I forgot the other comic I'm buying monthly is that a lot of
times I don't buy monthly. Sometimes I really need a fix and buy from my
local comic book store (which everyone should.... these guys are mostly
scraping by and its nice to be able to stop in and have a warm body to
talk too about new issues and such) or I will go a few months and then
order all the issues I have missed from::
http://www.mycomicshop.com/
Decent shipping prices and a ok turn around time. You can also get onto
their subscription service where they will send you a monthly package
with all the new issues of the comics you are reading.
There are also a few places online to read comic reviews and keep up
with industry information:
http://www.comicreaders.com/
http://www.comicon.com/thebeat/
http://www.sequentialtart.com/home.shtml
http://www.comicsworthreading.com/
http://www.comicon.com/
http://www.comicscontinuum.com/

And if you want to continue reading and enjoying comics please support
the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund:
http://www.cbldf.org/
Yes folks there are those out there who really find comic books
offensive (especially ones written for adults) and could care less about
your rights to read and view what you want and since its comic books the
ACLU (cause really comics are just not that important in a number of
folks opinion) really does not get involved in all the cases out
there...that's where CBLDF comes in. Mostly they fight for comic book
store owners who get hauled in on local obscenity charges...sheesh.

I think I'm done.
Julie W in AR


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