"Raw," "Weirdo," and Beyond: American Alternative Comics, 1980-2000
An extensively illustrated catalog for an exhibition of alternative comics, featuring essays that offer interdisciplinary perspectives.
 
This catalog accompanies an exhibition of alternative comics from the 1980s and 1990s with a particular focus upon artists who contributed to the anthologies Raw (1980-91) and Weirdo (1981-94) and comics from venues such as alternative newspapers and independent presses. Following the popularity and eventual decline of underground comics in the 1960s and 1970s, this next generation of cartoonists explored more complex themes and forms and garnered eclectic readers in new markets.

Featuring 180 color illustrations, this book comprehensively examines the world of these comics from interdisciplinary perspectives. Essayists from art historical, literary, and other fields focus on the role of influential editors and publishers as well as the strategies artists employed to encourage readers to take the art form seriously. Subjects include the aesthetics of Raw and Weirdo, the punk-influenced work of Gary Panter, and the genre-breaking work of the Hernandez Brothers.
 
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"Raw," "Weirdo," and Beyond: American Alternative Comics, 1980-2000
An extensively illustrated catalog for an exhibition of alternative comics, featuring essays that offer interdisciplinary perspectives.
 
This catalog accompanies an exhibition of alternative comics from the 1980s and 1990s with a particular focus upon artists who contributed to the anthologies Raw (1980-91) and Weirdo (1981-94) and comics from venues such as alternative newspapers and independent presses. Following the popularity and eventual decline of underground comics in the 1960s and 1970s, this next generation of cartoonists explored more complex themes and forms and garnered eclectic readers in new markets.

Featuring 180 color illustrations, this book comprehensively examines the world of these comics from interdisciplinary perspectives. Essayists from art historical, literary, and other fields focus on the role of influential editors and publishers as well as the strategies artists employed to encourage readers to take the art form seriously. Subjects include the aesthetics of Raw and Weirdo, the punk-influenced work of Gary Panter, and the genre-breaking work of the Hernandez Brothers.
 
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Raw, Weirdo, and Beyond: American Alternative Comics, 1980-2000

"Raw," "Weirdo," and Beyond: American Alternative Comics, 1980-2000

Raw, Weirdo, and Beyond: American Alternative Comics, 1980-2000

"Raw," "Weirdo," and Beyond: American Alternative Comics, 1980-2000

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An extensively illustrated catalog for an exhibition of alternative comics, featuring essays that offer interdisciplinary perspectives.
 
This catalog accompanies an exhibition of alternative comics from the 1980s and 1990s with a particular focus upon artists who contributed to the anthologies Raw (1980-91) and Weirdo (1981-94) and comics from venues such as alternative newspapers and independent presses. Following the popularity and eventual decline of underground comics in the 1960s and 1970s, this next generation of cartoonists explored more complex themes and forms and garnered eclectic readers in new markets.

Featuring 180 color illustrations, this book comprehensively examines the world of these comics from interdisciplinary perspectives. Essayists from art historical, literary, and other fields focus on the role of influential editors and publishers as well as the strategies artists employed to encourage readers to take the art form seriously. Subjects include the aesthetics of Raw and Weirdo, the punk-influenced work of Gary Panter, and the genre-breaking work of the Hernandez Brothers.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781892850430
Publisher: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College
Publication date: 10/21/2022
Pages: 305
Product dimensions: 12.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

John McCoy is assistant director of multimedia and design services at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College. 


Andrei Molotiu is a senior lecturer in the Department of Art History at the University of Indiana Bloomington.

Table of 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

Index
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