Ya want comics? What kinda comics do ya want? There are Mainstream comics, Underground comics, Independent comics, Foreign comics and Small Press comics. In Mainstream comics, there are graphic novels, mini-series, maxi-series and mature audiences comics. There are code-approved and non-code-approved comics. And that doesn't include their cover gimmicks.
DC Marvel Image Dark Horse Crossgen Chaos Archie Cartoon Books Viz Oni Last Gasp Antarctic Fantagraphics Top Shelf Sirius El Capitan Books Highwater Slave Labor NBM Aardvark Vanaheim AAA Pop Black Eye Drawn & Quarterly
PLUS FOREIGN PUBLISHERS incl.
Casterman Dargaud L'Association Oog & Blik Les Humanoides Associes Flammarion and japanese and asian comics such as manga comics In Undergrounds, asian comix are story-oriented, art-oriented, Art-with-a-capital A, mindless fuck-books, erotica, political and drug-oriented. Most of them have generous amounts of nudity, sex, politics and/or drugs. Most of them were published from the late 1960s to the late 1970s, when the closing down of headshops made them scarce throughout the nation. They still exist, but, like most Independent comics, they're hard to find. Comic shops throughout the U.S. and Canada have been shut down just for having them for sale, so many shop owners won't order them. Some record stores stock them, but generally they just ain't available.