Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

A sapphic comic

I usually don't read 'comics', so this will be a challenge for me... I trust everyone will contribute to the Listopia to help!! 😁

Listopia: A sapphic comic

I assume graphic novels are included in comics?

Mystique and Destiny are married in the last decade or so of X-Men comics, so I will probably use one of those issues.

Anything by Alison Bechdel works. She's best known for Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic and a 90s-era lesbian soap opera called Dykes to Watch Out For.

Huh, somehow my brain read this as "a sapphic comedy", I shall need to rethink my attack!

Dubhease wrote: "I assume graphic novels are included in comics?"
I'm going with yes. To me, I feel like they were aiming for the visual format idea.

I'll most likely end up reading the next release of She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat, Vol. 1 for this one, but lots of great yuri manga out there. Doughnuts Under a Crescent Moon, Vol. 1 was another series I really loved. Adding some of the series I've read or have on my tbr to the Listopia!

My first thought was a comic of the stand-up variety, so maybe an autobiography/memoir.

I'm also assuming that graphic novels are included, since it's such a porous distinction. I had two on my TBR that fit:

Goat Magic
Navigating With You

Alison Bechdel - Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama -- includes a mini history of psychology and psychoanalysis - rich and deep.

and her recent The Secret to Superhuman Strength - which I am assured by other readers here includes Pilates for that other prompt.

I also have hopes for :

I Love Led Zeppelin by Ellen Forney

The One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg

I'll be reading Succulent: Trans-inclusive Sapphic Erotic Comics by Multiple Authors.

If graphic novels aren’t your thing, I have 3 different ones for you.

If you want a sweet little romance I recommend:


If you want something more supernatural and thriller based (with werewolves) I recommend:


For a hug in comic form I recommend:

Sasha wrote: "I'm also assuming that graphic novels are included, since it's such a porous distinction. I had two on my TBR that fit:

Goat Magic
Navigating With You"

Thanks for the recommend, Sasha. I will be reading Goat Magic.

I am going to read by Alison Bechdel.

I found this helpful:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

I just got a bundle of Critical Role comics, so I'm hoping either Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins: Yasha Nydoorin or Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins: Beauregard Lionett will work.

AF wrote: "I found this helpful:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1..."



That was such a helpful list that I now have TOO MANY sapphic comics on hold at my library LOL!!

Thank you, because I wasn't SUPER thrilled with my first choice, seeing all these other options helped a lot.

We always called them comic books, but this doesn't use the word book. I'm wondering why the author can't be a sapphic comic?

Cyndy wrote: "We always called them comic books, but this doesn't use the word book. I'm wondering why the author can't be a sapphic comic?"

Love the lateral thinking! Go for it, if that suits your interests better.

Sasha wrote: "Cyndy wrote: "We always called them comic books, but this doesn't use the word book. I'm wondering why the author can't be a sapphic comic?"

Love the lateral thinking! Go for it, if that suits you..."

That's what I'm going for, Amber Ruffin has written a couple of books. Watch PopSugar plug my loophole next year!

That's what I'm going for, Amber Ruffin has written a couple of books. Watch PopSugar plug my loophole next year!"

If you're also doing the 52 book club challenge, her book You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism fills the "author's dog mentioned in bio" prompt.

X-Men: The Wedding Special (2024) #1 has romance, action, humor, and a variety of creative teams working on it. It also has some interviews, retrospective, and a couple of related reprints. I give it 4 stars.

Cyndy wrote: "We always called them comic books, but this doesn't use the word book. I'm wondering why the author can't be a sapphic comic?"

I love this idea! I just don't do well on graphic novels- I want to read the words or I won't get lost in the story.

This could even work with a CHARACTER being a sapphic comic!

Ruth wrote: "Cyndy wrote: "We always called them comic books, but this doesn't use the word book. I'm wondering why the author can't be a sapphic comic?"

I love this idea! I just don't do well on graphic novel..."

If you want to run with the idea of a character being a sapphic comic, I just read Most Wonderful. It follows three siblings at Christmas and one is a stand-up comic.

I am reading Fun House a Family Tragicomic 1ST Edition and then Superhuman Strength for pilates

I went with Spent: A Comic Novel by Alison Bechdel:

http://www.lauraruthloomis.com/whats-...

I didn't find one mention of Pilates in The Secret to Superhuman Strength. It is possible that I missed it; but, I chose to fit that book into sapphic comic, since she spent a fair amount of the book on her relationships with other women. And, I was mildly pleased that I would not need to find another book for this prompt.

Bluebelle-the-Inquisitive (Catherine) wrote: "Dubhease wrote: "I assume graphic novels are included in comics?"
I'm going with yes. To me, I feel like they were aiming for the visual format idea."

I agree. I'd include Manga too.

Cyndy wrote: "That's what I'm going for, Amber Ruffin has written a couple of books. Watch PopSugar plug my loophole next year"

Thank you for filling this prompt for me. Only last month, I read her book about the awful things people say to her sister. Now I can tick that box.

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel. I wouldn't have read it if not for this prompt, I didn't particularly enjoy it (thought it was boring), and I'm glad graphic novels don't take long to read.

I just finished Red and the Wolves: A Graphic Novel. I was into it and totally ready for everything to get tied together, and then the last quarter of the book happened and the wheels fell off. I'm so bummed!

I read Florrie. A sweet book about women's football in the 1920s, and its ban by the FA (not suitable for the weaker sex). I very much liked the style of the illustrations and there were several Sapphic love stories.

I seem to recall that someone mentioned wanting to avoid anything with on-page spice, which I totally understand. I just finished Charity and Sylvia by Tillie Walden, and I think it would work well for anyone with that preference. It's a lightly fictionalised account of two Congregationalist women living together in the 19th century, and while there are some references to the relationship having a physical side, they are highly euphemistic. Nothing spicier than cuddling under the covers or kissing in the woods is actually shown. A good bit of the story portrays their inner conflict about reconciling the relationship with their faith. It's a really interesting book (with an accompanying website if you want to look up the historical facts and sources), and I like Walden's drawing style. Of course that's very subjective, but I would say it's in the same vicinity as Alison Bechdel's style, which I know several people here also like. I gave it 4 stars.