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Like Eternaut, Mort Cinder, and V for Vendetta
I also want to know where to find the publication schedules because I like knowing how people read it back then.
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Prince Valiant by Hal Foster. Though not necesarilly a story with beginning an end since it's still in publication, but the story keeps going forward, Valiant gets married, has children, his children grow (I might be mistaken but I think Valiant has a grandchild).
About schedules, Prince Valiant had a page to read each sunday.
This was just how you did adventure strips back in the 1930s: Terry and the Pirates, Flash Gordon, The Phantom, Prince Valiant etc.
Early Tintin and Spirou were put out in chapters monthly.
This describes most strips in the weekly satirical/subversive sci-fi comic 2000AD (long running comic strips that are one long story)
ps. 2000AD is aimed at adults
Gottfredson’s Mickey Mouse comics, unless I’m mistaken
The phantom.
Its crazy in scandinavia he is still kinda popular and has ongoing issues. Started as a weekly newspaper thing.
Chester Brown’s stuff all came out as comics first: Ed the happy Clown, Louis Riel, The Playboy, etc
I thought it might have been common. I have the work of Chris Ware, Olivier Schrauwen, Daniel Clowes, Jim Woodring, Julie Doucet that were all published as short comics before later coming out as graphic novels.
Conan the barbarian and star Wars both had daily strips, also the phantom is not bad
V for Vendetta? Huh?
I think OP might have slightly misunderstood. It was initially serialised in short (5-6 pages I think) segments in the UK anthology comic Warrior.
After Warrior ended with V unfinished, Moore and Lloyd finished it in the traditional US single issue format at DC
Marvelman/Miracleman had a similar, although vastly more complicated journey
Maybe a more mature story featuring adult characters because I have Calvin and Hobbes and Peanuts already in my backburner.
but feel free to suggest things you think are good
You could always read Red Meat https://www.redmeat.com
Cerebus the Aardvark was published in comics, I believe once a month, for 300 issues.
I believe there is an overarching narrative throughout, but also it is divided into individual "books" of 25 or so issues.
Cerebus was published in issues, not a strip or a magazine.
This might be a language difference, but in the UK at least, we would use issue and magazine interchangeably.
How was the way they were published different from magazines?
When people use "Magazine" as a format they refer to comics that were published in Magazines as either anthologies or on a "comic" section. To give an example, the remake of "The Eternaut" by Oesterheld and Breccia was published in the Magazine "Caras" which wasn't itself a magazine about comics.
Issues on the other hand referes to "floppies" like most super hero comics are published, and Cerebus was published in floppies which later were collected on soft books or "Phone books" like they were called by fans (later rebranded in the medium as Trade Paperbakcs).
Mainly though the big, big difference is that a comic published on a magazine would get, let's say betwen 8 and pages 16, not more than 20, while an issue is 30 pages (counting ads).
Ah okay, thanks for explaining.
I might be mistaken in my understanding of what a 'magazine' means (in the UK), as comics aren't as big over here, so I haven't had too many irl conversations about them.
Lots of stuff was serialized in Epic magazine in the 80s, like Abraxas by Rick Veitch, which as far as I know has never been collected/reprinted.
Actually, Veitch did reprint Abraxas, as well as various other bits of his early work, back in the 00s
Oh, really? I’ll have to look out for that. Never seen it.
If you want something similar to Calvin and Hobbes with an overarching story, I’d recommend Forest Folk. I think there are at least three collections too. Very cute and fun. My nephew, niece, and sister adore them.