"This publication was issued in conjunction with the exhibition, "American Alternative Comics, 1980-2000: "Raw," "Weirdo," and Beyond" in the Daley Family Gallery at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, September 6-December 4, 2022"-- title page verso. Artists include: Ho Che Anderson ; Peter Bagge ; Kyle Baker ; Lynda Barry ; Alison Bechdel ; Mark Beyer ; Charles Burns ; Daniel Clowes ; Sue Coe ; Robert Crumb ; Dame Darcy ; Kim Deitch ; Julie Doucet ; Mary Fleener ; Phoebe Gloeckner ; Matt Groening ; Gilbert Hernandez ; Jaime Hernandez ; Ben Katchor ; Kaz ; Keith Knight ; Aline Kominsky-Crumb ; Krystine Kryttre ; Carol Lay ; Tony Millionaire ; Françoise Mouly ; Mark Newgarden ; Gary Panter ; Harvey Pekar ; Richard Sala ; R. Sikoryak ; Art Spiegelman ; Adrian Tomine ; Carol Tyler ; Chris Ware ; J. R. Williams ; Jim Woodring. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Preface / Nancy Netzer -- Introduction / John McCoy and Andrei Molotiu -- Raw and Weirdo: Comics in search of authenticity and an audience / John McCoy -- An interview with Françoise Mouly / John McCoy and Andrei Molotiu -- An interview with Peter Bagge / John McCoy and Andrei Molotiu -- Gary Panter: Comics as acts of drawing / Andrei Molotiu -- Mark Beyer: The "outsider" in the comics avant-garde / Tyne Lowe -- Trash collectors: Alternative cartoonists as recuperative nostalgists / Jeet Heer -- Gazing, playing, cartooning: Jim Woodring vis-à-vis surrealism / Charles Hatfield -- The brief wondrous story of Love and Rockets / Frederick Luis Aldama -- A lot of guts: the body politics of underground and alternative comics / Andy Crow -- Maus, Fun Home, and beyond: Comics in the university classroom / Lori Harrison-Kahan, Andrei Molotiu, and Lorenzo Alexander L. Puente -- Plates -- Artists in exhibition -- Essayists.
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