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Alec
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Alec

The Years Have Pants

by Eddie Campbell

Recommended by Neil Gaiman

Recommended by Neil Gaiman

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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books.

For the first time ever, the pioneering 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 Campbell's own life, filtered through the alter ego of "Alec MacGarry." Over many years, we witness Alec's (and Eddie's)...

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Neil Gaiman

The best autobiography in comics form ever done, perhaps because that wasn't what he was trying to do.

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