Alternative Comics

In the 1980s, a sea change occurred in comics. Fueled by Art Spiegel- man and Françoise Mouly''s avant-garde anthology Raw and the launch of the Love & Rockets series by Gilbert, Jaime, and Mario Hernandez, the decade saw a deluge of comics that were more autobiographical, emotionally realistic, and experimental than anything seen before. These alternative comics were not the scatological satires ...