Good Girls
Good Girls is a 1987–1991 six-issue comic book limited series. It was created by Carol Lay and published by Fantagraphics and then Rip Off Press. The series parodies romance comics.
Good Girls
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- Fantagraphics Books · Rip Off Press
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- English
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Good Girls is a 1987–1991 six-issue comic book limited series. It was created by Carol Lay and published by Fantagraphics and then Rip Off Press. The series parodies romance comics.
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• Title — Good Girls • Schedule — Irregular • Limited — n • Publisher — Fantagraphics Rip Off Press • Date — April 1987 - June 1991 • Issues — 6 • Writers — Carol Lay • Artists — Carol Lay • Letterers — Carol Lay • Creators — Carol Lay • Tpb — Goodnight, Irene • Isbn — 0-86719-659-9 • Subcat — Fantagraphics • Addpubcat1 — Last Gasp titles • Sort — Good Girls (comics)
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History
The comic book started with another strip, "Ms Lonelyhearts", which progressively disappeared. The second featured Irene Van de Kamp, an heiress who grew up in an African tribe who puts face markings and a disk in her lower lip. She meets an assortment of weird characters while trying to find romance and avoid people who are only after her money. Carol Lay gives an account of how the character started in her preface to the collection. It is a combination of a picture of three Ubangi women in Hustler magazine, DC romance comic Heart Throbs and Western Publishing Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge comics that prompted her to create the character. She used her as filler in Good Girls #1 but eventually Irene took over. The influence of Tarzan is also evident in the origin of the character.
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A collection of the strips called Goodnight, Irene: The Collected Stories of Irene Van De Kamp was published in June 2007 by Last Gasp with two new stories.
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In Amazing Heroes #145 (July 15, 1988), Alan Moore gave a list of ten recommendations for current comics and about "Good Girls" he said: "GOOD GIRLS is another one that I shall certainly be checking out. I don't know why I find Carol Lay's stuff so wonderful and fascinating, but there's something about it that really tickles me. It might just be the quirky sensibilities of the stories, or the fact that her style is so reminiscent of traditional romance comics in places that the oddness of it looks all the more appealing in context. There's something about it which I find very, very charming". The sixth issue contained letters of appreciation by Scott McCloud and Peter Bagge. Jaime Hernandez has stated: "I've been a fan of Carol Lay's ever since The Pep Girls, and Irene has always been one of my favorite characters".
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- 1.Carol Lay. Goodnight, Irene: The Collected Stories of Irene Van De Kamp. Last Gasp. June 2007. 9780867196597.
- 2.Alan Moore in Amazing Heroes #145.
- 3.Good Girls #6, Rip Off Press
- 4.Back quote in "Goodnight, Irene, Last Gasp".
- 5.Newsarama. Talking to Carol Lay - Irene and More. July 19, 2007.
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