If you liked Little Orphan Annie
7 comics like Little Orphan Annie
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Little Orphan Annie (adventure, drama), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Comics like Little Orphan Annie
Coming of Age1. Reg'lar Fellers
by Gene Byrnes
- Comedy
Neighbourhood boys, spelled the way they talk, arguing about the rules of games they are inventing as they go. Small stakes taken entirely seriously, which is what being eight years old is like.
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Coming of Age2. Gasoline Alley
by Frank King
- Slice of Life
A baby was left on a bachelor's doorstep in 1921 and then did something no comic character had done before: he grew up, at the speed everybody else does. The strip has aged in real time ever since.
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Coming of Age · Drama3. Look Back
by Tatsuki Fujimoto
- Drama (shared)
- Slice of Life
Fujino draws the comic strip in her school paper and thinks she is the best in town, until a strip by a girl who never comes to school appears beside hers. A single long chapter from the creator of Chainsaw Man about two girls, drawing, and the years that follow.
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Coming of Age · Drama4. Akane-banashi
by Yuki Suenaga, Takamasa Moue
- Comedy
- Drama (shared)
Akane's father was a gifted rakugo storyteller, expelled from the art in front of her eyes. Years later, she sets out to reach the top of rakugo herself and prove him right. A stirring story of performance and practice, where a single voice on a cushion holds a whole room.
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Adventure5. Little Nemo in Slumberland
by Winsor McCay
- Adventure (shared)
- Fantasy
Every week a boy named Nemo dreams his way into Slumberland, and every week the dream throws him out of bed on the last panel. McCay drew it as full newspaper pages, and used the whole sheet: the panels stretch, tilt and collapse along with the dream.
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Coming of Age · Drama6. Show-ha Shoten!
by Akinari Asakura, Takeshi Obata
- Comedy
- Drama (shared)
Azemichi Shijima writes jokes in secret and would never perform them. Taiyo Higashikata is a former child actor with presence to spare. Together they form a comedy duo aiming for the top of Japan's manzai scene. A story about making people laugh, drawn by Takeshi Obata of Death Note.
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Coming of Age · Drama7. Medalist
by Tsurumaikada
- Drama (shared)
- Sports
Tsukasa's figure-skating career ended before it began; he started too late. Inori is eleven, already old for the sport, and everyone tells her to give up. He becomes her coach, and the two of them set out to prove everyone wrong.
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