Reviews

Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature by Charles Hatfield

whitneyborup's review against another edition

4.0

I hate that he pits alternative and mainstream comics against each other. I see his point about commercial realities and seriality, but it seems like a way too common way to try to legitimize comics studies. The rest of it I liked, though. I thought his readings of individual comics were good and I especially liked his discussion of authenticity in autobiographical comics.