Name: Alec
ISBN: 9781603090476

Eddie Campbell

Follows the life of the author's alter-ego, Alec MacGarry, as he spends time at the pub with his friends, gets married, immigrates to Australia with his wife, has a child, and works to establish himself as a graphic novelist.

(a Life-sized Omnibus). "The years have pants"

Alec

Narrated by the author in the future tense, it is a graphic novel about becoming an artist and making your way in the world as an artist.

How to be an Artist

Gavin

Both cryptic and mundane: take a diary written by someone with the usual amount of self-obsession but no time to explain. Alec is pretentious - the character not the book, except that the author is the character. 

I find the 70s dreary for some reason, not just the visual style and relative poverty, but something deep about information poverty and conformist anti-conformity.

Massive amount of time in pubs with no particular narrative goal. Or: the main narrative goal here is to laud aimless friendship and pubs. The other half is chasing women, ineptly. An epic in length only.

Alec (a Life-sized Omnibus). "The years have pants"

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