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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. They span across 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 as 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.