I've been a fan of comic books for a long, long time!  When I was very young, I bought titles like Super Goof, and Walt Disney's Comics And Stories, and TV and movie and animated cartoon-related titles.  I think around age ten, I "graduated" to the Archie family of comic books, particularly to Jughead.  (I consider Mr. Jones a friend of mine to this day!)  As I entered my pre-teen years, Archie and the gang were becoming superheroes and I loved Captain Hero, Super Teen, Pureheart The Powerful, etc.  In Junior High, I got into DC and Marvel superhero comics, but also would purchase Archie books.  While I still got a kick out of Jughead, I found I was buying the books for other reasons now - namely Betty, Veronica, Midge, and Melody.    The female characters of the Archie universe helped jump start my puberty!  Throughout High School, my younger sister and my younger female cousins would buy the "girl" Archie titles - Josie, Betty And Veronica, Betty And Me.  I couldn't bring myself to do that, but I did let them read my comics if I could read theirs.  And read them I did!  And I loved looking at the pictures!    In college, my friends and I collected superhero titles, but we would still buy Archie titles now and then, particularly if Betty and Veronica were drawn REAL well and/or were involved in romantic situations.  Throughout the years, I would collect comic books, then stop because of finances and other reasons and get rid of my collections, then start again later.  Now, I have an extensive DC and Marvel superhero collection and the last couple of years have started to slowly build up an Archie collection as well.  And I still pick up new Archie comics now and then that interest me.

Well, any fan of Jughead is definitely cool in my books.  As you can tell from my screenname, I too am a huge fan.

Nice to see some new faces here!

Welcome to the forum, Bluto! (Popeye fan, I take it.)

I am indeed a major Popeye fan and write a column for The Official Popeye Fanclub News-Magazine.

I wouldn't be surprised if there was an "official" fanclub for anything and everything under the sun.

Jim

That website needs a major facelift...

I used to LOVE the black and white popeye cartoons. Are you reading the collections from Fantagraphics? I haven't gotten them but they look very interesting. It's such a big format though.

And yes, that website looks very much like a fansite.

Jim