Who Says Romance Is Dead? A Look at the past, present and future of Romance Comics (51:54, 118mb)
The moderator was Fantastic Frankey and panelists included Bruce Simon, Sydney Heifler, Trina Robbins and Melissa Pagluica. They discussed how and why Romance Comics started and specifically Young Romance by Simon and Kirby, the reaction to Romance Comics, their personal reaction to seeing their first romance comics, spoke about a really bad romance comic from the 1960s, Trina spoke about Teen Humor stores like Archie and her own Misty and how that is different from Romance, Melissa spoke about her own romance comics and the apprehension she had about creating them, Bruce talked about why publishers did romance comics and how publishers “updated” ones published in the 1950’s/60s for the 1970s. Trina spoke about Liz Berube’s work, the group discussed Romance’s influences on other genre’s, their favorite relationships in comics, the fashion in comics and Matt Baker’s work.
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