Seattle’s The Rocket wasn’t exactly an Alt-Weekly paper, as it came out monthly or, later on, twice a month. But the extremely influential free music/art/politics publication shared all of the important characteristics that are key to our study of the Alt-Weeklies. Here’s a piece I wrote for The Comics Journal on The Rocket, focusing on the Xmas-time covers done by some great cartoonists and illustrators and art directed by some really talented people:
Spooky Comics 