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Good Girls is a 1987-1991 six-issue comic book by [[Carol Lay]] published by [[Fantagraphics]] and then [[Last Gasp]] which parodies [[romance comics]]. | {{subpages}} | ||
'''Good Girls''' is a 1987-1991 six-issue comic book by [[Carol Lay]] published by [[Fantagraphics]] and then [[Last Gasp]] which parodies [[romance comics]]. | |||
It started with two strips. The first was called "Ms Lonelyhearts" and progressively disappeared. The second and best by far featured Irene van de Kamp, a heiress who grew up in Africa who has face markings and a circular plate 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. | It started with two strips. The first was called "Ms Lonelyhearts" and progressively disappeared. The second and best by far featured Irene van de Kamp, a heiress who grew up in Africa who has face markings and a circular plate 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. | ||
Revision as of 01:49, 21 November 2007
Good Girls is a 1987-1991 six-issue comic book by Carol Lay published by Fantagraphics and then Last Gasp which parodies romance comics.
It started with two strips. The first was called "Ms Lonelyhearts" and progressively disappeared. The second and best by far featured Irene van de Kamp, a heiress who grew up in Africa who has face markings and a circular plate 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.
The sixth issue contained letters by Scott McCloud and Peter Bagge.
In Amazing Heroes #145 (July 15, 1988), Alan Moore gave a list of 10 recommendations for comics then published and here's what he said about "Good Girls":
"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."
A collection of the strips called Goodnight, Irene was published in June 2007 by Last Gasp.