Go, Read: Happy Valentine’s Day

Here are a few romance and Valentine's Day-related cartoons and comics for your perusal on this most fun and life-affirming of the major card-selling holidays.

* the cartoonist Emily Carroll celebrates the holiday by giving us all a special webcomic to go look at.

* Dean Haspiel, Geoff Boucher and Moby get together for a little single-day promotion/on-line comic effort.

* the cartoonist Stephanie Piro offers up a short comic related to the holiday here.

* a Dan Zettwoch Valentine's Day-related cover. Everything's better when it involves Dan Zettwoch.

* Jacque Nodell's Sequential Crush blog, devoted to 1960s-1970s romance comics and their creators.

* a Richard Thompson Valentine's Day post (2010). Another one (2011).

* Jeffery Klaehn's big post of superhero romances at Pop, now with added romances.

* the Golden Age Romance Comics Archive. The Classic Good Girl & Romance Covers site.

* a Stupid Comics entry on a few bizarre Charlton romance comics of the 1970s.

* great comics kisses from this site's "Five For Friday" feature, as run over the weekend.

* a few words about iconic alt-comics couple Maggie & Hopey.

* two articles on genre-defining comic book Young Romance: Pop-Cult, Don Markstein's Toonopedia.

* Chris Sims of Comics Alliance on the best romances in comics and the worst couples in comics.

* I'm not certain why this cover got stuck in my bookmarks, but I'm grateful to that person.

* a beautiful-looking Stan Lee and John Romita Sr. romance comic.

* the great Charles Schulz sums up Valentine's Day for many kids -- many people! -- in two strips from 1964.

* manga fans in 2008 discuss romance manga on a message board.

* that great sequence from Doonesbury where Joanie Caucus and Rick Redfern get together for the first time, a sequence I believe a few newspapers chose not to run and one that's almost impossible to imagine folks running now for its indirect storytelling more than the content.

* scans from Gothic Tales Of Love #1.

* two recent Newsarama posts describing silly, distressing or just plain odd romances with various characters: Teen Titans and Legion Of Super-Heroes. Others are promised but haven't appeared yet.

* original art to a complete Alex Toth romance story.

* this year's gallery at Cagle.com.

* a new column about comics romance launches here.

* here are three links to substantive posts by Matt Thorn: a short history of the romance comics genre, a list purporting to be all of the romance comics ever published and a bunch of romance comics covers.

* finally, a nice-looking Valentine's Day New Yorker cover from the legendary Charles Addams. If you want a bonus image to go see, this Andrea Tsurumi image called "Love" could fit right on a wall next to Addams'.


 
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