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Alternative comics
Photo of Art Spiegelman at the Alternative Press Expo.
Publishers
Fantagraphics Books
Drawn & Quarterly
Alternative Comics
Last Gasp
Top Shelf Productions
Publications
Raw
Love and Rockets
Eightball
Hate
Subgenres
minicomics
indie comics
Related genres
Underground comix
Alternative comics or independent comics cover a range of American comics that have appeared since the 1980s, following the underground comix movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Alternative comics present an alternative to mainstream superhero comics which in the past have dominated the American comic book industry. Alternative comic books span a wide range of genres, artistic styles, and subjects.
Alternative comics are often published in small numbers with less regard for regular distribution schedules.
Many alternative comics have variously been labelled post-underground comics, independent comics, indie comics, auteur comics, small press comics, new wave comics, creator-owned comics, art comics,[1] or literary comics.[2][3] Many self-published "minicomics" also fall under the "alternative" umbrella.
^Douglas Wolk, Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean, Da Capo Press, 2008, p. 30.
^Hillary Chute, "Comics as Literature? Reading Graphic Narrative", PMLA,123(2), Mar. 2008, pp. 452–465: "literary comics with stories that are serious in scope and heavy on style."
^A Beginner's Guide to Literary Comics – Nerdophiles.
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