Independence, as imagined by Tim Sievert

​One day in the summer of 2007, City Pages editor Kevin Hoffman drew up a new idea: A comics issue, in which the Twin Cities alt-weekly would devote its entire feature well to the work of local artists. Today, CP publishes its fourth annual comics edition, and it's better than ever. The concept's proven so popular that the issue is now published in conjunction with Minneapolis Indie Xpo, a local comics show. This year's theme: What it means to be independent--a subject we know a little something about.