Eddie Campbell - Alec - The Years Have Pants torrent

Ran into this one after I uploaded 'The Kind Canute Crowd', which is also included in this omnibus.

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'Alec - The Years Have Pants'
(A Life-Size Omnibus)

Top Shelf Productions, 2009, 600 pages

Written and Illustrated by Eddie Campbell

Collects the previous Alec books...

The King Canute Crowd
Graffiti Kitchen
How To Be An Artist
Little Italy
The Dead Muse
The Dance Of Lifey Death
After The Snooter
As well as a generous helping of rare and never-before-seen material, including the all-new 35 page The Years Have Pants

For the first time ever, the groundbreaking autobiographical comics of master cartoonist Eddie Campbell (FROM HELL) are collected in a single volume!

Brilliantly observed and profoundly expressed, the ALEC stories present a version of Eddie's own life, filtered through the alter ego of "Alec MacGarry." Over many years, we witness Alec's (and Eddie's) progression "from beer to wine" -- wild nights at the pub, existential despair, the hunt for love, the quest for art, becoming a responsible breadwinner, feeling lost at his own movie premiere, and much more! Eddie's outlandish fantasies and metafictional tricks convert life into art, while staying fully grounded in his own absurdity. At every point, the author's uncanny eye for irony and wry self-awareness make even the smallest occasion into an opportunity for wit and wisdom. Quite simply, ALEC is a masterpiece of visual autobiography.

"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 ALEC is probably the best book-length comic 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