Two From Alternative Comics

'The Cute Manifesto' and 'A Strange Day'

"...www.indyworld.com/altcomics, 168 pp.; $19.95 (paper) Alternative Comics, helmed by Jeff..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Weird Scenes Inside the Joke Mine

Austin Comics at the Montreal Comedy Fest

"...Two hundred comics walk into a bar.... It sounds like the opening..."

Sept. 29, 1995 Arts Feature

Triumph of the Yellow Kid

Comics are art, Spiegelman notes in his panel-busting history lesson

"...From the beginning, comics knew the pain of the late Rodney Dangerfield: They..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yeti

Erik T. Johnson's 'The Outliers' is good and deep and weird.

"...Alternative Comics – the indie publishing company that used to..."

Sept. 3, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Best of Print 1995

Words: Printed, Spoken, and Painted

"...this year. It was to Trinidad. Martin Wagner:Year in Comics 1995 Last year, the comics industry experienced a tumultuous..."

Jan. 5, 1996 Books Feature

Next Summer: The New South Festival in All Its Glory

Danithan Mejia & inkstained friends bring a graphic party to the ATX

"..."Isn't there already a sort of local kind of comics convention each year? I mean, uh … that annual..."

Oct. 15, 2014 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Are You Headed Straight For Failure, Friend?

Ah, it looks like Karl Stevens got there first.

"...by, say, Chester Brown or John Porcellino? These are comics being created here in Stevensville, after all. These are..."

Sept. 5, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Peanut Butter & Jeremy's Best Book Ever

You couldn't really call these kiddie books, although even the youngest readers will enjoy them, doubtless reveling in the just-getting-through-the-day antics and verbal jousting of this cross-species odd couple

"...Alternative Comics, 275 pp., $14.95 (paper)..."

March 5, 2004 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Owen Kline Turns the Funny Pages

New movie looks at the grotesque and absurd sides of collection

"...Eventually he transitioned to reading comics which, like for most kids, meant superhero comics. While..."

Aug. 26, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Words & Pictures by Martin Wagner

"...The comics of Chris Ware should be familiar to many Austinites...."

June 30, 1995 Arts Feature

The End of the Line?

As print media money dries up, political cartoonists look to the web

"...in the alt-weeklies that have nurtured the brand of alternative political cartooning that Sorensen has built her career on..."

July 13, 2012 Screens Feature by Dan Solomon

Postmarks

A fresh melange of reader responses to our recent issues.

"...Kudos for Alt.comics..."

May 25, 2001 Column

Funny Pages

Portrait of the comic artist as a young idiot

"...in Wallace (Maher), a former color separator for Image Comics...."

Aug. 26, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women

The origins of the iconic Amazon princess

"...1945. (A real-life shot across the bow of the comics industry presaging the infamous 1954 Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile..."

Oct. 13, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Something for Everyone... Jack's Back... and It's Hell

"...as strikingly, and as unforgettably, as the acclaimed British comics writer Alan Moore in From Hell...."

Nov. 17, 1995 Books Feature

A Lot to Crow About

Goth comic king James O'Barr at Staple! this weekend

"...There aren't many comics that were true cultural landmarks. The first appearance of..."

March 5, 2011 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

Man and Myth

Comic-book artist Dean Haspiel set to attend Staple! Independent Media Expo

"...between franchises and genre stuff and doing creator-owned, indie-style comics, because I've got a foot planted firmly in each..."

March 2, 2007 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Almost Famous

Three years after leaving Austin for Hollywood, comics Chip Pope and Howard Kremer still aren't celebs, but with pilots for HBO and Comedy Central and a willingness to schmooze, they've come agonizingly close.

"...Kremer and Chip Pope exist. The two former Austin comics, however, have been working steadily since moving to Hollywood..."

July 20, 2001 Arts Feature by J. C. Shakespeare

Austin Chronicle Earns Two AAN Nominations

Creative Director Jason Stout, Playback's Kevin Curtin singled out

"...The Association of Alternative Newsmedia announced today its 2016 AAN Awards Finalists, including..."

June 1, 2016 News Post

Fantastic Fest Review: My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea

Remarkable animated adventure from graphic novelist Dash Shaw

"...teenager in the Nineties, the main two schools of comics were alternative comics that were mostly auto-bio comics coming..."

Sept. 24, 2016 Screens Post by Ashley Moreno

Big Books

Gift guide

"...New Comics..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Mother's Mouth

"...Alternative Comics, 128 pp., $12.95 Read enough modern comics, and..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Placebo Man

"...Alternative Comics, 134 pp., $14.95 Twin brothers Tomer and Asaf..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Austin Chronicle Earns AAN Awards Nominations

Cover design, music coverage singled out for excellence

"...The Association of Alternative Newsmedia announced today the finalists for the 2018 AAN..."

June 20, 2018 News Post

Ax-Wielding 101

Manga Beyond the Norm, in Excellent Paperback Form

"...you might’ve accrued about how manga ~ that’s Japanese comics, friend ~ is all big-eyed kiddie-genre hijinks. Top Shelf..."

Dec. 8, 2010 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Art of Tony Millionaire;
Hot Potatoe: [Sic]

Two new retrospectives represent what's best and funniest and most poignant about comic art

"...Canada's Marc Bell, little known outside the world of alternative comics, whose complex drawings within drawings within drawings are..."

Nov. 27, 2009 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Thanks for Comic Faves

"...am so distressed at the recent news from my alternative comics faves about the large-scale slashing of comics that..."

Feb. 4, 2009 Postmarks

News/Print

Friday, Feb. 3, 8pm

"...which a minor was inadvertently given a copy of Alternative Comics' Free Comic Book Day giveaway issue featuring part..."

Feb. 3, 2006 Books Column by Marc Savlov

Bedside Manner: Station to Station

Manga, fantasy, YA, and more

"...A Drifting Life by Yoshihiro Tatsumi. Like western indie/autobiographical comics, but interesting. An insightful tale of coming-of-age in post-war..."

Feb. 7, 2011 Books Post by Jason Stout

Best Books of 2006

"...artifacts that breached the transom this year kicked my comics-loving ass in a good way. Kevin Huizenga's collection, Curses,..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

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