Alec: The King Canute Crowd by Eddie Campbell
Requirements: CBR Reader, 107 MB
Overview: The first of the Alec stories:
- Alec is a brilliant and insightful romp through Eddie Campbell’s own life, and it represents one of the best, and first, works in the autobiographical-comics genre. In it, we witness Eddie’s progression from "beer to wine," or to put it more accurately, his inevitable maturation through time. Whether it’s tales of his early pub-crawlin’ days, or glimpses into his current private life with "wifey" and kids, there are "truths" here that transcend the factual and paint a picture of the way life should be. This collection, numbered at 51 in The Comics Journal’s top comics of the century, has been much sought after by collectors of the serious graphic novel as well as readers new to the idea of comics.
- One of the first of the semi-Autobiographical Alec series from Eddie Campbell.
Genre: Comics, Graphic Novel, Semi-Autobiography.
Alec: The King Canute Crowd
- Eddie Campbell writer
Published by Top Shelf. 2000.
- Campbell made his earliest attempts at autobiographical comics in the late 1970s with In the Days of the Ace Rock and Roll Club. This evolved into Alec, with the character of Alec MacGarry standing in for the author. Campbell self-published these early comics in the amateur press association BAPA and then as short-run photocopied pamphlets in London in the early 1980s, selling them at conventions and comic marts and via Paul Gravett’s "Fast Fiction" market stall. When Gravett founded Escape Magazine, Campbell was one of the artists featured.
In 1984 Escape published Alec, a slim collection of his semi-autobiographical stories. This was followed by two further collections, Love and Beerglasses (1985) and Doggie in the Window (1986).
In 1990 all three Alec volumes were collected, together with some unpublished material, as The Complete Alec by Eclipse Comics. In 2000 this material was republished as The King Canute Crowd.
Two further slim volumes, The Dead Muse (1990) and Little Italy (1991) appeared through Fantagraphics Books.
Graffiti Kitchen, which Campbell considers the highpoint of the series, was published by Tundra in 1993, and The Dance of Lifey Death followed in 1994 from Dark Horse Comics.
Campbell then followed up these works by self publishing two larger works. Alec: How To Be An Artist (2000), a study of the art form and of Campbell’s own artistic journey, and After The Snooter (2002), in which Campbell appears to have laid Alec McGarry to rest. Both works were originally serialised within his Bacchus magazine, but were reworked upon collection. The Fate of the Artist, in which Campbell’s family and friends investigate his disappearance, undermining the image of himself he had presented in his previous autobiographical works, was published by First Second Books in 2006.
The character of Alec received a nomination for the Squiddy Award for Best Character in 2000. The graphic album Alec: How to Be an Artist was nominated for the Harvey Award for Best Graphic Album of Previously Published Work in 2000.
All the Alec stories, with the exception of The Fate of the Artist, were published in one volume, Alec: The Years Have Pants by Top Shelf Productions in 2009 (ISBN 978-1-60309-025-4). this was followed in 2012 by the publication of The Lovely Horrible Stuff, a continuation of the autobiographical theme.
See also by Eddie Campbell:
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