Tag Archive | "Alec the Years Have Pants"

Alec – Here. Finally.

Monday, December 28, 2009

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Email from Chris Staros: “EDDIE CAMPBELL’S OMNIBUS, ALEC: THE YEARS HAVE PANTS, IS NOW IN STOCK AND HITTING STORES THIS WEEK!” At long last. Thank you lord. There’s a Christmas wish answered. Here’s the press publicity piece (none of which I could actually disagree with): “Alec is a brilliant and insightful romp through Eddie’s life, [...]

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Alec – designing those pants…..

Saturday, December 12, 2009

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Alec: The Years Have Pants by Eddie Campbell will be required reading this Christmas for many of us. It will sit beautifully on our shelves, looking spiffy and gorgeous thanks to the design work of Eric Skillman, who’s good enough to share the entire design process over on his blog, from getting a first speculative [...]

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Eddie Campbell, master of graphic autobiography

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

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“If autobiography is the lingua franca of the graphic novel form, Campbell is its undisputed Shakespeare,” Richard Pachter summing up some of the best graphic novel releases for the Miami Herald. I love that. I think that’s going to be my favourite quote of the week.  (via Leigh Walton’s Twitter) (Alec the Years Have Pants [...]

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The Thoughts of the Artist: Eddie Campbell talks to Pádraig

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

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Last spring I had a nice break in Paris and being me I had to go into a couple of bookstores and check out the graphic novels selection. Among the European works I noticed French editions of UK and US (and other) creators, including, I couldn’t help but notice, a rather nice big collection of [...]

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