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Valentine Day Highlight: The Girl Who Tempted Me
Posted: February 12, 2015
“I knew Lola would cause TROUBLE the first day she came to the farm!”
In The Girl Who Tempted Me! Kirby with Simon subverts several prejudices many modern comics readers have about the romance genre. Roy Lichtenstein is a lot to blame for this disdain, I think. His paintings of jilted women gushing waterfalls of tears supports the cliché that all love comics were formulaic tear-jerkers, where weak women pined for boyfriends and marriage and showed no hint of real passion. Having read a few more pre-Code romance comics thanks to my friend Ian Rakoff, I’ve found that the best can be as raw and vital as the best crime or horror comics of the early Fifties. READ FULL STORY…
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