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	Comics
		The comic book industry may not be what it used to be (oh, how I miss Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane), but the alternative scene is as robust and alive as ever.
		Comics and cartoons are understandable to just about everyone, and they have a long and important history within the popular culture.
		Comic book characters really have a life of their own, and fans of comic book characters like to participate by helping bring these characters to life.
	www.harley.com /yp/categories/comics/items.html (1955 words)

	ALTERNATIVE COMICS
		At the same time that the traditional comics industry is imploding, so-called "alternative" comics are booming, despite the fact they have no clearly defined market or distribution system beyond the comics shops, most of which still cater to pimply adolescents seeking garishly colored pictures of big-breasted women and men in tights.
		The circulations of alternative comics magazines are tiny, really - most of the "successful" ones sell in the neighborhood of 1 or 2 percent of the top-selling superhero magazines, or about 1/10 what a marginal superhero magazine needs to keep from being cancelled.
		There are many economic reasons why this might be disastrous for many of the creators of today's alternative comics, but it might be the only way the medium can finally be taken seriously, to move out of the ghetto of the comics shop, with its big-breasted posters and geeky clerks* and into the real bookstores.
	www.geocities.com /Area51/Zone/9923/alternative.html (2701 words)

	Alternative comics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term "alternative comics" is one of several labels applied to a range of comics that have appeared since about 1980, in the wake of the underground comix movement of the late 1960s and early 70s.
		Alternative comics present an alternative to the "mainstream" comics which dominate the US comic book industry (such as the superhero-themed products of Marvel and DC comic companies).
		Another important factor in the establishment of alternative comics was the emergence in the late 1970s of the publishing house Fantagraphics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alternative_comics (787 words)

	Rec.Arts.Comics: No Alternative?
		Comics which easily fall into genres well-represented by the comic book industry's mainstream (such as Superheroes, science fiction/fantasy/horror, comics for kids and teens, and comics based on popular movies or bestsellers) are not considered "alternative" unless they fit the following description of alternative comic books:
		In contrast to over 80% of comic books today, they are not published by the chief imprint of the biggest mainstream companies (DC, Marvel, Image, Valiant, Archie and Disney); comic books that you could buy at a convenience store or a newsstand would not be considered alternative.
		Alternative comic books focus on subjects not typically found in comic books or focus on typical subjects in atypical and innovative ways.
	www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /smallpress/99951421942748.htm (672 words)

	The Comics Journal: Newswatch (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Alternative's problems are the latest in a series of aftershocks, delayed reactions to the failure of LPC, the most prominent distributor of comics-related material to the book trade at that time.
		Comics industry consultant (ICV2.com) Milton Griepp, said, "We can't really track comics releases by that kind of category, but it's certainly true that there are more alternative comics that are going straight to trade paperback rather than to serial comic books.
		When the bottom fell out of the comics market as a whole in the mid 1990s with the mass exodus of speculator-consumers and the failure of the newsstand market, alternative comics were relatively insulated because their sales had not been artificially buoyed by collectors.
	www.tcj.com /263/n_shrinking.html (2173 words)

	Zines, fanzines, alternative comics, and graphic novels (Part 1)
		Some zines, and especially alternative comics and graphic novels, may nevertheless have no clear allegiance to an ideology, literary genre, or sport, but exist as entertainment or art in their own right.
		Adult comics and graphic novels can also be related to the traditional comics of the first part of the twentieth century, such as those held in the Library's British Comics Collection.
		Alternative comics, also known as adult comics and comix, have a highly visual quality and use the conventions of traditional cartoon strips for more adult themes.
	www.bl.uk /collections/britirish/modbrizines.html (2440 words)

	The Comics Reporter
		I state, not that comics are "primarily a literary form" (er, that claim was in an earlier draft), but rather than my book treats comics primarily as a literature form, while acknowledging that this is not the sole nor indeed always the best criterion for judging a comic.
		Comics has such a short history of cartoonists considering their work capital A Art (or capital L Literature) that this is sometimes obscured, but it is very evident in music (which seems to want a total revolution every six years or so) and in painting and in other fields.
		Comics may have always been a legitimate medium to those who looked closely, but it required the "respectable" veneer of the established literary form to get a lot of people to realize that.
	www.comicsreporter.com /index.php/briefings/commentary/3370 (13069 words)

	Charles Hatfield, Alternative Comics : An Emerging Literature by Jan Baetens
		Yet Hatfield demonstrates very convincingly that such a reading of alternative comics would imply a double error, not only at the level of the sociological position of the genre, but also at that of its creative output.
		Alternative comics, he argues, do need the comics environment and the comics industry in the very broad sense of the word: without that industry and without that subculture alternative comics are simply not viable; the more the global comics scene is strong and productive.
		In this sense, Alternative Comics should be read as a crucial complement to, for instance, Roger Sabin's work on a similar corpus (Adult Comics, Routledge, 1993).
	www.imageandnarrative.be /surrealism/hatfield.htm (747 words)

	Alternative - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In logic and mathematics, alternative is the element of logical disjunction.
		Alternative culture, a variety of subcultures outside or on the fringes of so-called accepted mainstream culture
		Alternative lifestyle, a lifestyle that it is not within the generally perceived cultural norm
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alternative (262 words)

	COMICON.com: NEWS: ALTERNATIVE COMICS OPEN LETTER - Company Needs Your HELP!
		Alternative Comics is suffering some very dire cash flow problems and I am turning to you for help.
		Alternative Comics’ cash flow problems have been the only reason for not yet reprinting Bipolar #1 and Humor Can Be Funny as well as having been the only reason a number of books have been arriving late or re-solicited.
		Comics is a tough business to make a go in, certainly for smaller publishers whose audience for a book may be only a couple thousand people (or even less).
	www.comicon.com /cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=36&t=002471 (2307 words)

	MISCMEDIA.COM: The Seattle Comics Scene
		First off, let's offer an attempted definition of "alternative comics." A simple definition would be comics created for their artists to express themselves.
		Barry was known at the time as a typical comics loner, who preferred the company of her pen and paper to the companionship of other artists.
		Despite the hype and media exposure some alternative comics creators have gotten in recent years, theirs is still a fairly underground cult milieu.
	www.miscmedia.com /ComicsScene.html (1403 words)

	Article about Funtime Comics (Site not responding. Last check: )
		His aim was to foster a sense of national comics identity The register and some of the work from Funtime has also been maintained on the World Wide Web, which has attracted the attention of similar alternative comics communities from around the world.
		People contribute to the comic from throughout the country (as I did when I was based in Auckland), but the people who come to the meetings are the major contributors of serials and stand alone comics.
		Funtime Comics experienced animosity with publication of Issue 10, when "Staff at the University of Canterbury printery took offence at the swearing that was part of Bob's Mr Blurt in the Year 2000 and complained to the registrar who directed the printery to decline to print any further issues" (Darren).
	funtime.comics.org.nz /ruthsarticle.html (3494 words)

	Comment: Alternative Medicine
		Alternative Comics is doing the same, but it might have a tougher time.
		He breezily dismisses comic strips, manga, and anything put out by DC or Marvel; he pointedly includes the traditional objection of "highbrows" that comics are intrinsically sub-literate; and he appropriates Topffer and Hogarth as "lofty antecedents" of modern comics, in the mighty McCloudian manner.
		McGrath goes on to observe that comics are well-suited for tales of "blankness and anomie", "spookiness and paranoia", and, of course, humour and satire.
	www.ninthart.com /display.php?article=886 (2151 words)

	DIY
		You may run a perfect mainstream comics emporium, but your audience is limited to fans of those comics, and if mainstream-comics sales are declining across the board, you have no safety cushion.
		This is why it's important to put recognizable alternative comics and posters (Crumb, Moebius, Clowes, Bagge) in your window display, and to put your alternative comics section in the very front of your store.
		To bring more attention to your alternative comics, you could pick a favorite one and put it in a small rack by the register as a special feature.
	www.artbabe.com /comicsandart/diy/diy_sell.html (2196 words)

	Bad Lit » Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A comic book is an object a reader can read at one’s own pace, but a webcomic’s pace is determined by how fast one’s machine and Internet connection is. And clicking through to a page that won’t load is just plain irritating.
		However, author Charles Hatfield is looking to the future a bit differently with his scholarly Alternative Comics through which he hopes to legitimize comics’ past as a valid form of literary study.
		As for autobiographical comics, as I noted in my review of Epileptic, this is the genre that seems to be most “acceptable” to the general non-comic reading audience.
	www.badlit.com /?p=264 (953 words)

	The Rubber Frame: Culture and Comics
		The Visual Language of Comics from the 18th Century to the Present examines a variety of formal, technological and commercial forerunners to modern comics.
		American Underground and Alternative Comics, 1964-2004 — curated by Hignite — will focus on the explosive, taboo-shattering underground comix of the 1960s and 70s and their spiritual successor, the modern alternative movement.
		Daniel Raeburn, publisher of the comics 'zine The Imp, surveys Two Centuries of Underground Comic Books, beginning with the work of Rodolphe Töpffer (1799-1846), the Swiss prep-school teacher whose humorous — and widely copied — narratives are generally considered the first true comics.
	news-info.wustl.edu /news/page/normal/3769.html (1687 words)

	Apotik Komik
		Reflecting Indonesian’s political and economic turbulence, current comics are unclear about new cultural patterns and have not found a clear vision to present to readers about today's society and how to live in it.
		By making comics more visual and producing alternative comics, they hope to have more space to express their ideas so that they can interact with the society which has been isolated from art by galleries’ walls for so long.
		Although its content may be objectionable to some, it is an attempt to air the issue of religious intolerance in the guise of a fable, and is presented as an example of the new vigor and relevance of these alternative comics.
	www.seasite.niu.edu /Indonesian/kartun/Apotik/apotik_bkgrnd.htm (1365 words)

	DaVinci: Arts> Comics> Publishers
		As to what we consider the major comics publishers in the States, only Dark Horse and DC had a presence, and it was not in the comic pavilion.
		More and more, educators, librarians and publishers are looking to capitalize on children's and teens' interest in comics, said David Saylor, vice president...
		Stumptown has become such a wonderful show for Indy comics that we...
	www.bluegrassdavinci.com /ODP/Arts/Comics/Publishers (283 words)

	Alternative Comics
		Comic book store owner Michael George, who has run the Pittsburgh Comicon for years and years, was recently convicted of the 1990 murder of Barbara George, who was then his wife.
		Still protesting the jury’s guilty verdict, defense attorneys for the man convicted of killing his wife in their comic book store nearly 18 years ago have gained a sliver of hope in the case… [click for the rest of the article]
		He also does a daily comic at: www.doublefine.com and is responsible for some mini comics such as “Pyramid Car”.
	altcomics.wordpress.com (1379 words)

	Alternative Comics from Alternative Comics (ADD Review)
		My first thought upon receiving a "big, fat package of comics" from Alternative Comics this week (that's what publisher Jeff Mason called the package, and he was right -- only four titles, but man, good, substantive work), was pleasure at their varied shapes and sizes.
		This is not one-size-fits-all comics, where every book is the same size, shape and level of mediocrity.
		This really is an all-ages comic, and you'd be hard pressed to find a better comic to share with a child.
	www.simpleweblog.com /comics/addreviews/opinion_archive_082001.php (979 words)

	ICv2 - Alternative Comics Appeals For Help
		As was the case with Top Shelf, Alternative comics has been hurt by the bankruptcy of book distributor LPC back in the spring of 2002 (see 'LPC Group Files Chapter 11').
		Alternative's situation is a good example of how a bankruptcy can have ripple effects felt long after the principal players have left the stage.
		Alternative was able to absorb the first hit -- taking a deal that was to pay just 42 cents on the dollar for the amount LPC owed the publisher.
	www.icv2.com /articles/news/5316.html (377 words)

	Amazon.com: Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature: Charles Hatfield: Books
		Hatfield recognizes the real-world limitations of alternative comics and graphic novels, but he also sees their potential for stimulating readers' appreciation of life.
		An outgrowth from the underground comics of the 1960s, alternative comics took shape in the 1980s in such serial publications as the Hernandez brothers' Love and Rockets and the anthology raw, edited by Art Spiegelman, whose Maus later ratified comics as a literary form.
		Hatfield shows how the movement rejected mainstream comics by snubbing old genres; developing such new ones as autobiography, history, and journalism; employing a wider range of graphic styles; and incorporating international influences.
	www.amazon.com /Alternative-Comics-Literature-Charles-Hatfield/dp/1578067197 (853 words)

	The Independent Comics Webring
		The official fan club site for AC Comics' Femforce title has fan fiction and art, reviews, original art by the creators at AC, photomaniplations, interactive quizzes, and profiles of the characters.
		Max Comics takes a humorous and offbeat look at everything from rock bands to aliens and everything in between.
		Unicorn consists of two longtime comic fans who have put thier visions of powerful protagonists and even more powerful antagonists on paper for the world to see.
	r.webring.com /hub?ring=indcomics (748 words)

	Comics Continuum
		DC Comics has announced that the first issue of the new Vertigo series, Fables, has sold at the publisher.
		Diamond Comic Distributors and Alternative Comics have reached an agreement naming Diamond as the exclusive U.S. and non-exclusive worldwide distributor of the publisher's English-language titles to the bookstore, library, warehouse club, mass merchandise, and specialty markets.
		Alternative Comics' flagship Indy Magazine began publication in 1993 as a guide to independent comic books.
	www.comicscontinuum.com /stories/0207/03/index.htm (957 words)

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		The topic of what determines whether or not a comic is alternative is always good for long debates.
		Note that superheroes do not equal comics; Greatest American Hero is not a suitable topic since it did not first exist as a comic prior to the tv show.
		In particular, regarding the Usenet Floating Homosexuality Flamewar, it is appropriate for the appearance of gays in comics to be discussed, but rants either against or in favor of homosexuality in the general sense are not appropriate.
	www.ibiblio.org /netcomics/faq1.html (2294 words)

	Alternative Comics, Diamond Update Booktrade Agreement - Silver Bullet Comics - comics news, comic book news, comics ...
		Alternative Comics and Diamond Book Distributors (DBD) have modified their booktrade distribution agreement to include the United Kingdom and international markets.
		In addition to being Alternative’s exclusive U.S. distributor of English-language editions of its graphic novels and books to the bookstore, library, warehouse, and mass merchandise markets, DBD will now also distribute the publisher’s products to traditional booksellers, the library market, warehouse clubs, mass merchandisers/retailers, and specialty mass merchandisers/retailers.
		Diamond was also named Alternative Comics’ exclusive worldwide distributor to the comic book specialty market, with a few exceptions.
	www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /news/110125825092711.htm (265 words)

	Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature
		These alternative comics were not the scatological satires of the 1960s underground, nor were they brightly colored newspaper strips or superhero comic books.
		In Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature, Charles Hatfield establishes the parameters of alternative comics by closely examining long-form comics, in particular the graphic novel.
		Alternative Comics analyzes such seminal works as Spiegelman's Maus, Gilbert Hernandez's Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories, and Justin Green's Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary.
	www.upress.state.ms.us /books/24 (324 words)

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