I never sat well with the “indy” label anymore than the “manga” label. Comics are largely independently made now, and it’s sort of irrelevant if they are or not, so the label is just there to misguide people on what independent comics are. Also yeah, “big two” gives those companies entirely too much credit, so does “mainstream” I question if they even are “mainstream” anymore, webcomics have more than likely have taken the mantel.
Maybe I’ll just refer to marvel and dc as “corporate comics”.







