(Two flavours of the upcoming Alec book: hardback to the left, softcover to the right.)
Top Shelf have released some preview pages from Alec: The Years Have Pants by Eddie Campbell. It’s available from October 2009 – click here to pre-order from the FPI webstore. This is one of those books that you just know is going to be on a LOT of end of year best of lists!
Alec: the Years Have Pants Life Sized Omnibus will collect all the stories from The King Canute Crowd, Graffiti Kitchen, Three Piece Suit, How to be an Artist, Little Italy, The Dead Muse, The Dance of Lifey Death, After the Snooter, as well as an all new novella The Years Have Pants and several short stories rarely or never before seen. It will definitely be the definitive Alec tome.
“Alec is magic, and even if I knew how all of it was done I’d be doing you a disservice if I pointed out the wires and mirrors. … It is written by someone who obviously finds being alive an endless source of novelty and conundrum.” Alan Moore
“Do you need me to tell you how good Eddie Campbell is? Or that After the Snooter is probably the best graphic novel about art and wine and midlife crises and families and friends and wine and love and art and saying goodbye and terror there is?” Neil Gaiman
“I love that we have an artist like Campbell who merges the horizons of comics culture with the larger horizons of culture, art, literature. But I love even more the unassuming but devastating humanness of his work.” Charles Hatfield
There are 16 pages available to view at the Top Shelf preview; here’s just one of them:
Sun, Sep 6, 2009
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