from the wellknown comic books for children (aged 3 to 300) to the adult's hentais* with the deepest emotional bias that we could be able to find on a newspaper's paper, you've probably spent part of your childhood reading texts between talking balloons and, sometimes, a fair amount of POW, BOOM and VOOOOSH. since each country must've an hyped comic book of its own, what are/were your favorite ones?
my first experience with comics (and, probably, reading itself) happened with Monica's Gang (Turma da Mônica), which is basically the most popular CB from Brazil, since, hummm, 1959?
As an adolescent, I "refined" my taste on comics through the reading of a local comprehensive collection of Carl Bark's stories for Disney characters, mainly the ones from Duckburg, Donald Duck's city! They'd be one more of Donald's comics available on the crowd except by the fact that Barks were so interested in Geography and History (among other subjects) that he would instinctively put the ducks on real places on Earth, such as the Andes and Egypt, and all the elements from the stories (including the characters) are SO real and "human", man -- no comments, he was a sort of genius
Speaking of graphic novels, I don't know them very much but, definitely, my favourite one is Persepolis, an autobiography by the Iranian Marjane Satrapi, with its simple but cool artstyle, and captivating way of tell about her interesting life
* To manga's purists: manga could be considered a comic book (considered the format and the way the story is told) and, offtopic, animes are a sort of cartoon!