Skip Beat!, Volumes 1-3 | 
SKIP BEAT! is my all-time favourite comic. I‘d never heard of it when I plucked it off the library shelf to help balance out all the male-authored comics I was reading at the time, and I never imagined I‘d fall so totally in love.
I usually only reread a few of the most recent volumes when there‘s a new release, but this time I‘m going full-series. Bring on the 45-volume binge!
(Also, please note my tasty empanada-type thing.)
1. History time! “Comics” is the overall medium. (It‘s not a genre. Comics come in all genres.) Will Eisner coined the term “graphic novel” to mean a longer comic; I think his criteria was 65+ pages, but don‘t quote me on that. In the 90s, comics fans who wanted to be pretentious—myself included—began to declare they read GRAPHIC NOVELS, not COMICS. The librarians and marketers latched onto that.
TL:DR: no difference. Just legitimized pretension.
These panels...! Kyoko's talent agency admittance interview is funny the first time through, but now that I know her inside and out it always leaves me all 😭😭😭 on account of the bit about acting.
I felt a surge of despair when I saw today's #anditsaugust prompt, because most of my comics are digital and it's tough to fit a lot of ebooks into a feature shot. Then I browsed through my physical shelves and realized I I've got a fair, if not spectacular, number of #comicsbywomen in that format, too! #comics
(And I forgot to round up some important ones, including NIMONA and BITCH PLANET. Poop.)
