A “Zap” cover by R. Crumb.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nDrawn almost entirely from comic-book materials held in Special Collections and curated by UWM Libraries Assistant Head of Library Systems Andy Ritter, the exhibition offers a survey of \u201cindependent\u201d and \u201calternative\u201d comic books from their modern beginnings in the 1970s through the early 1990s.<\/p>\n
Materials on display range from early underground comics, such as R. Crumb\u2019s “Zap,” Harvey Pekar\u2019s “American Splendor,” and publications from Dennis Kitchen\u2019s Kitchen Sink Press, to early alternative anthology\u2019s, such as “Heavy Metal” and Art Spiegelman\u2019s “RAW,” and from the formative publications of independent publishers such as Dark Horse and Image to the American publishing of Japanese Manga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It\u2019s been a long time since comics were for kids only, and here\u2019s the proof. The exhibition \u201cThe Independent Spirit: Comic Books Outside the Mainstream\u201d will be on view in the Fourth Floor Exhibition Gallery of the Golda Meir Library through Jan. 29. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., daily. Drawn almost entirely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":839,"featured_media":28056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"categories":[174,200,175],"tags":[],"section":[],"display_categories":[],"related-coverage":[],"uwmnews-feed":[],"class_list":["post-28055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-in-brief","category-research"],"yoast_head":"\n
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