Alternative Comics

A list of independent and alternative American comic book series released by small press publishers during the 1980s.

Comics:

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For the Autumn edition of _Printed Pages_ we interviewed Australian comics artists Simon Hanselmann and Grant Gronewold about their incredible work, living together, and their fictitious escapades with Rupert Murdoch. We found out about how they met in a dirty Tazmanian club, toured Australia together with their bands and eventually started to get successful in the world of alternative comics. Then we asked them to film a little teaser for the piece, and this is what they came up with. It's…

From the beginning, Alternative Press has closely followed all things Umbrella Academy. We’ve seen the growth of the series, which has gone from an indie comic sensation to a Netflix hit. We’ve also seen the growth of the Hargreeves family, remaining captivated by their struggles and triumphs. Hell, we’ve even…

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Here they are: Some of the best comics by Jonathan Kunz and Elizabeth Pich aka War and Peas. They are back with their unique dark humor, unexpected twists and hilarious characters.

Corey Lewis's Sun Bakery is a bimonthly anthology series featuring three all-new stories in every issue, and it's all unmistakeably the work of Corey Lewis.

This manga story ‘A Dream To Have In Heaven’ by Maki Sasaki appeared in the November 1967 issue of Japan’s Garo, a monthly manga anthology magazine, founded in 1964 by Katsuichi Nagai (1921 – 1996). It specialized in alternative, experimental and avant-garde manga until it ceased publication in 2002. As Miranda Remington notes, at its … Continue reading "Vintage Avant-Garde Manga in Garo by Maki Sasaki, 1967"

Hanselmann is hugely prolific, and is almost unendurably active in the alternative comics scene in Melbourne. Talking to him has a similar stand-in-front-of-the-firehose feel.