Inalternative comics an emerging literature charles hatfield establishes the parameters of alternative comics by closely examining long form comics in particular the graphic novel he argues that these are fundamentally a literary form and offers an extensive critical study of them both as a literary genre and as a cultural phenomenon. In alternative comics an emerging literature charles hatfield establishes the parameters of alternative comics by closely examining long form comics in particular the graphic novel he argues. In alternative comics an emerging literature charles hatfield establishes the parameters of alternative comics by closely examining long form comics in particular the graphic novel he argues that these are fundamentally a literary form and offers an extensive critical study of them both as a literary genre and as a cultural phenomenon. In alternative comics an emerging literature charles hatfield establishes the parameters of alternative comics by closely examining long form comics in particular the graphic novel he argues