1. Spent part of morning at TCAF. Had chance to chat with Chris Oliveros, Tom Devlin, @AnnieKoyama, @dustinharbin & @RubenBolling
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2. Most substantial conversation was with
@RubenBolling about the history of alt-weekly strips from Feiffer to Lynda Barry to Groening, etc1 reply 1 retweet 7 likes -
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3. The alt-weekly strips are kind of fading from memory as alt-weeklies themselves are dying out or shrinking. Yet it was a vital form.
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4. Art comics flourished in margins, in underground comics or as fringe products in comic book stores. Alt-weekly strips took another route
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5. Alt-weeklies were the way people who didn't go to head shops or comic book stores could read comics for adults.
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@RubenBolling's telling, alt-weeklies were a rare example of polygenesis: creators generally not aware of each other at start.1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes -
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7. So each alt-weekly cartoonist was more or less inventing the wheel, developing an ad hoc aesthetic with little sense of tradition.
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8. There's a general history of the alt-weekly comics to be written. Those strips were precursors to so much, from The Simpsons to Fun Home
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@walter_biggins It's a book I'm interested in reading more than writing. Although I might eventually write on parts of it.
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