Candy Candy (back in the early 80s when anime was good)

I started this story when I was about 17 and before anime became a big deal in the US. In all honesty, I can't stand anime. I used to like it a lot because there was some of it around when I was a little girl (Candy Candy) and I missed it. Back in 1995, anime was pretty difficult to come across in the US. After having become very interested in it for about four or five years, I began to really notice some aspects of it that I didn't like, mostly the portrayal of women as children., as well as all kinds of other things. To make a long story short, Fantastical Argon is actually not supposed to be manga-like, although my drawing style is manga-like because that's the way I've been drawing for the past sevearl years. So it's kind of ironic and maybe hypocritical.  The story follows several other stories I used to write when I was still a teenager, including Cynthia and Madline, neither of which is good in particular.  I came up with the form of Argon when I was in high school, which was actually a caricature of myself in this one outfit my mom got me, except that my outfit was beige and Argon's is green (it actually started out purple). I was messing around with the storyline for a while and wrote two versions of the comic until a finalized idea began to settle in, especially following my first year at UCLA during which I spent most of my time in organic lab.  Argon (Anette) begins the story as a sheltered person who unknowingly accepts an entrance into the world. She is constantly concerned with evaluating herself and reestablishing her seclusion during the violent course of her attempt to save her sister and herself. During her gradual fall into the cruelty of human nature, she escapes into illusions in search of compasssion and help.