The Computer Wore Pigtails is a series that appeared in the British girls' comic Mandy in 1967, featuring Transy, the “the first computer to look and act like a twelve-year-old schoolgirl” and who is also extremely trans. Her name is Transy, like.
I do not know how many stories there were but Girls Comics of Yesterday suggests that the series was reprinted in 1975 under the title of Electra the Sister with the Transistors between Mandy #462 and Mandy #470 which suggests that there were at least nine. The Bournemouth University UK Comic Database has three stories archived. I have been unable to find any other extant Transy stories, but I would love to read the rest.
Transy lives with Sally Gleade, whose father works at Imperial Transistor Machines (I.T.M.) where Transy was made and is presumably named after. They also attend Leewood School together. In the first story Transy has a problem: She sucks at rounders.
But thankfully Miss Boffet, a scientist at I.T.M., is able to upgrade Transy's gaming programme and turn her into a real gamer.
Eat shit, blondie.
After that Transy and Sally go to a funfair. At one point Sally goes off by herself to pick up some eggs she promised to pick up for her mam and carnies decide to kidnap Transy and turn her into one of the shows.
I love her angular face compared to the style everyone else is drawn in. The fact that everyone calls her a “computer” and never a robot is also very endearing to me.
The carnies make her juggle for a crowd, but she's able to escape by egging the crowd with the eggs her and Sally were meant to bring home, causing a commotion and letting her and Sally slip away.
They don't have the eggs any more but Transy won some coconuts at the coconut shy, and they bring those home instead.
Next issue: Some trans(istor)phobic students try to get Transy disqualified from a competition.
