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Title Creator Publisher Series Price
Alec: "The Years Have Pants" (A Life-Sized Omnibus) - hardcover edition Eddie Campbell Top Shelf Alec $37.50
($49.95 list)
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Read more and comment... 		Our face is red with embarrassment for not having brought this massive 638 page compendium to the attention of Copacetic customers sooner.  "The Years Have Pants" collects all seven previously published Alec books – The King Canute Crowd, Graffiti Kitchen, How to Be an Artist, Little Italy, The Dead Muse, The Dance of Lifey Death, and After the Snooter – and "a generous helping of rare and never-before-seen material, including an all-new 35-page book, titled (you guessed it), "The Years Have Pants."  No less an authority than Tom Spurgeon, has stated, "There's no artist working in comics today whose body of work I admire more than Eddie Campbell's."  Alec is, for those of you who are unaware, the Alec series is autobiographical, with the title character serving as Eddie's alter ego through which he channels both his inner and outer life in a series of adventures, reflections and fantasies that fold back on themselves to graphically reveal a multi-faceted portrait of the artist.  This is, needless to say, an incredible value.  This is the hardcover edition.
Alec: "The Years Have Pants" (A Life-Sized Omnibus) Eddie Campbell Top Shelf Alec $29.75
($35.00 list)
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Read more and comment... 		Our face is red with embarrassment for not having brought this massive 638 page compendium to the attention of Copacetic customers sooner.  "The Years Have Pants" collects all seven previously published Alec books – The King Canute Crowd, Graffiti Kitchen, How to Be an Artist, Little Italy, The Dead Muse, The Dance of Lifey Death, and After the Snooter – and "a generous helping of rare and never-before-seen material, including an all-new 35-page book, titled (you guessed it), "The Years Have Pants."  No less an authority than Tom Spurgeon, has stated, "There's no artist working in comics today whose body of work I admire more than Eddie Campbell's."  Alec is, for those of you who are unaware, the Alec series is autobiographical, with the title character serving as Eddie's alter ego through which he channels both his inner and outer life in a series of adventures, reflections and fantasies that fold back on themselves to graphically reveal a multi-faceted portrait of the artist.  This is, needless to say, an incredible value.  This is the softcover edition.
The Amazing Remarkable Monsieur Leotard Eddie Campbell (:01) First Second $15.55
($16.95 list)
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Read more and comment... 		This 128 page, full color, French-flapped softcover is the third original graphic novel that Monsieur Campbell has produced for First Second.  He clearly is not one to rest on his laurels!  Set in 19th century France, it is a multi-layered work, visually as well as textually, and one that is as entertaining as it is intellectually stimulating.  Jog-the Blog certainly found it so, as you will discover if you read his in-depth review.
A Disease of Language Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell $17.99
($19.99 list)
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Read more and comment... 		When this book first came in, it sold out before we had a chance to list it here, but now we've restocked and would like to bring your attention to this spiffy hardcover volume that collects several unique works reuniting the team that brought us From Hell, one of the most challenging graphic novels ever produced. The feature attractions here are the The Birth Caul and Snakes and Ladders. Both of these works originated as performance pieces (!) by Alan Moore that were then released as CD recordings. These CDs were then transcribed and transformed by Eddie Campbell, making for comics unlike anything you've ever seen. Supplementing these works are a lengthy interview with Alan Moore conducted by Eddie Campbell, and a set of preliminary drawings by Eddie Campbell for Snakes and Ladders. This work really deserves a look.
The Black Diamond Detective Agency Eddie Campbell (:01) First Second $15.25
($16.95 list)
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Read more and comment... 		Mr. Campbell's second original graphic novel for First Second is an historical drama set in Missouri at the close of the nineteenth century.   We gave out a big stack of previews for this book on Free Comic Book Day (see below), so many of you already know all about it.  For those who don't:  it starts off with an exploding train, and then the going really starts to get tough.  It's a bit of an ex post facto try at creating a precursor to the iconic hard-boiled detective created by Dashiell Hammett.  Executed entirely in Campbell's (relatively) recently adopted full-painted color style, we're treated to a palette that leans heavily to brown and grey with the occasional splash of blood red.   Campbell fans will, of course, want to have a go at this, as will fans of detective fiction,  revisioninst westerns (think Jarmusch's Dead Man; well, the first half, anyway) and historical fiction featuring frontier themes.