CLEVELAND, Ohio – Independent art thrives in Cleveland, no doubt a result of the blue-collar work ethic and post-industrial grit found in its denizens. Perhaps that best explains the 15-year longevity ...

With X-Men: Grand Design, Ed Piskor pulls off a feat very few cartoonists ever manage: He takes his unique aesthetic from the scruffy fringe of alternative comics to the world of mass-market superhero ...

Ralph Mathieu is the owner of the comic book store Alternate Reality Comics in Las Vegas, Nevada. His store has been around for many more years than mine, and he has far more experience than I do.

DC Comics is the king of alternate universes and has been for decades. The publisher brought the idea of the multiverse to superheroes, and even after the end of the DC Multiverse gave readers the ...

The Earth-616, prime version of the X-Men is the foundation for every multiversal variant of the team that has spawned since, but Marvel's writers and artists have gone to great lengths to create ...

A general view of main gallery displaying both shows at the Museum of Chinese in America (photo by Hrag Vartanian for Hyperallergic) Marvels & Monsters and Alt.Comics, the current tag team exhibition ...

Cartoonist Ed Piskor is best known for his award-winning Hip Hop Family Tree series, and for working with alt-comics legend Harvey Pekar. So how... With X-Men: Grand Design, Ed Piskor pulls off a feat ...