September 21, 2008
FFF Results Post #134—Female Leads
On Friday afternoon, participating
CR readers were asked to "Name Five Comics You Like Where -- Clearly, So That A Fifth Grader Could See It -- The Lead Character Is Female. And Name the Comic, Not The Character!" The subject was suggested by John Vest. Here are the results.
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Tom Spurgeon
1. Little Orphan Annie
2. Persepolis
3. Elfen Lied
4. Cold Heat
5. Little Lulu
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Peggy Burns
* Little Lulu
* Ghost World
* Ernie Pook
* Dirty Plotte
* Nowhere
* Love & Rockets
Editor's Note: Peggy Burns gets to name as many as she wants.
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Eric Reynolds
1. Love & Rockets
2. Little Orphan Annie
3. Ghost World
4. Little Lulu
5. Daddy's Girl/Summer of Love
This was a tough one, because if I go with what resonated with me at my most influential age, #1 might be the New Mutants circa mid-to-late-80s (I was in love with Kittty Pryde and to a lesser extent, the irish werewolf girl whose name I can't remember), but the above are my favorites as an adult, off the top of my head. But I could have just as easily chosen anything by Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Julie Doucet, Phoebe Gloeckner, or Lynda Barry. I feel weird choosing 4 works out of 5 by men (when I think Little Lulu, I think John Stanley, not Marge, for better or for worse), but hey, I'm a guy.
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Nat Gertler
1. Jane's World
2. Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight
3. Leave It to Chance
4. Why I Hate Saturn
5. Halo Jones
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Steve Stwalley
1) Krazy Kat
2) Nancy
3) Little Lulu
4) Rick Geary's Blanche series
5) Palomar
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Elijah Brubaker
* one hundred demons
* How to understand Israel in 60 days or less
* lucky
* Ivy
* Laika
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Randall Ragsdale
1. Tank Girl
2. Wonder Woman
3. Lost Girls
4. Promethea
5. Lost At Sea
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Jamie S. Rich
1. Blue Monday by Chynna Clugston
2. Nana by Ai Yazawa
3. Pastil/Pastille by Francesca Ghermandi
4. Grendel: Devil's Legacy (#s 1-12, the Christine Spar year) by Matt Wagner & the Pander Bros.
5. Rare Creature by Kelley Seda
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Douglas Wolk
1. Alias
2. Perla La Loca
3. The Ballad of Halo Jones
4. Dykes to Watch Out For
5. Cat and Girl
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Jones
5. Octopus Girl
4. Uzumaki
3. Love and Rockets
2. Beecomix
1. The Marston/Peters Wonder Woman
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Dave Knott
* Why I Hate Saturn, by Kyle Baker
* On Stage, by Leonard Starr
* Girl Genius, by Phil and Kaja Foglio
* Indian Summer, by Hugo Pratt and Milo Manara
* Ernie Pook's Comeek, by Lynda Barry
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Joe Schwind
Little Iodine
Motor City Comics
The Adventures of Phoebe Zeit-Geist
The Tinder Box (Classics Illustrated Jr 540)
Ghost World
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Ryan Kirk
1. Yotsuba&
2. Blecky Yuckarella
3. Miss Fury
4. Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane
5. Promethea
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Booksteve
* On Stage
* Strangers In Paradise
* Kelly Green
* She-Hulk
* The Ballad Of Halo Jones
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Richard Pachter
1. The Ballad Of Halo Jones
2. Cherry Poptart
3. Dirty Plotte
4. Sally Forth
5. Persepolis
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Will Pfeifer
1. Love and Rockets
2. Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane
3. Ghost World
4. Trots and Bonnie
5. Catwoman (well, of course)
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Marc Sobel
1. Love & Rockets (duh!)
2. The Greatest of Marlys
3. Ghost World
4. Gemma Bovery
5. The Diary of a Teenage Girl
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Calum Johnston
1 - alison dare
2 - little lulu
3 - love & rockets
4 - give me liberty
5 - batgirl year one
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Don MacPherson
* Echo
* Alias
* Birds of Prey (Chuck Dixon/Gail Simone runs)
* Water Baby
* Leave It to Chance
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Domingos Isabelinho
* A Harlot's Progress
* Life? or Theatre?
* Die kleine Dame
* Ernie Pook's Comeek!
* La Orilla
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Tony Collett
* Strangers In Paradise
* Little Lulu
* Fallen Angel
* Playful Little Audrey
* Ghost World
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Chuck Forsman
1. Nancy
2. Lucky
3. One Hundred Demons
4. Fun Home
5. My New York Diary
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Sean Kleefeld
1. The Dreamer
2. Kukuburi
3. Girl Genius
4. The Devil's Panties
5. Cheshire Crossing
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Shannon Smith
Dirty Plotte
Kabuki
THB
La Perdida
Fun Home
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Sean T. Collins
1. Poison River
2. The Diary of a Teenage Girl
3. Paradise Kiss
4. Wet Moon
5. The ACME Novelty Library #19
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David Ferraro
This was a tough one for me since I read a lot of comics with female lead characters, but I narrowed it down to the following:
1. Peculia
2. Elektra: Assassin
3. Luba
4. Artesia
5. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
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Patrick Markfort
* Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Eight
* Love & Rockets
* Fun Home
* Whiteout
* Ernie Pook's Comeek
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Matthew Wave
1) Pastil
2) Naughty Bits
3) Fun Home
4) Josie Mac: Distant Voices and Josie Mac: Trading Up
5) We Are on Our Own
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Michael Grabowski
1. Little Orphan Annie
2. Jaka's Story
3. Daddy's Girl
4. Manya
5. Late Bloomer
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Eleanor Davis
* Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
* Gokinjo no Monogatari
* Skim
* Ghost World
* Lucky
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Johnny Bacardi
* Chase
* Manhunter
* Promethea
* Angel and the Ape
and stop me if you've heard this one before...
* Venus!
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Fred Hembeck
1. On Stage
2. Naughty Bits
3. Love and Rockets
4. Thirteen
5. Little Lulu
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William Burns
1. Promethea
2. Dykes to Watch out For
3. Meat Cake
4. Why I hate Saturn
5. She-Hulk
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John McCorkle
* Patty's World, by Phillip Douglas and Purita Campos
* Mary Perkins On Stage, by Leonard Starr
* Jessica Blandy, by Jean Dufaux & Renaud Denauw
* Julia: Le avventure di una criminologa, by Giancarlo Berardi
* Angeline, by Adeline Blondieu, Éric Summer and Serge Fino
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Tucker Stone
1. Queen & Country
2. Nana
3. 2 Sisters
4. The Pro
5. Selina's Big Score
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Mark Coale
1. Veronica
2. Night Nurse
3. Wendy, the Good Little Witch
4. Whoa Nellie
5. Lady Cop
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Marc Arsenault
1. Valerian
2. THB
3. Modesty Blaise
4. Mechanics/Locas
5. FLCL
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Russell Lissau
1. Little Gloomy
2. Scary Godmother
3. Babymouse
4. Magic Trixie
5. Catwoman
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Thanks to all that participated. I did bounce a few to the letters column that didn't pass the clarity test or had to be qualified in order to pass. Sorry about that. I hated doing it, but I hate getting the e-mails from other participants complaining about it more than just about anything in my professional life.
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