Alternative Comics

They first appeared in the 1980s following the underground comix movement.

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Like mainstream and underground comics alternative comics were heavily male-dominated a situation that has eased somewhat but has not disappeared in the twenty-first century. Luminaries in the genre include Daniel Clowes Eightball Peter Bagge Hate and Los Bros Hernandez Love and Rockets. Often done by writer-artist auteurs alternative comics present singular personal narratives that hew closely to the literary traditions of novels.

Mar 13 2014 - Explore Mike Martenss board Alternative Comics followed by 112 people on Pinterest. Alison Bechdel one of the most critically acclaimed cartoonists of the last few decades established her reputation with Dykes to Watch Out For 19832008 a newspaper comic that appeared in gay and lesbian newspapers. This genre is seen as naturally evolving out of the Underground Comics that sprouted up during the late 1960s proliferated in the 1970s and slowly faded in the early 1980s.

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