Drawing On Experience the Latest Graphic Novels Show Teddy Jamieson Why They Could Become Classics
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For the best part of 30 years now, Eddie Campbell has been cutting up his life and rearranging it to fit into tiny panels. He's worked various day jobs over the years - writing and drawing for DC Comics now and then, a long-ago strip for the long-lost music mag Sounds, spending years and years providing visuals for From Hell, Alan Moore's wild, dark, slightly deranged take on the Jack the Ripper story (later to be turned into an inevitably disappointing Hollywood movie starring Johnny Depp).
But over and above that he has been eking out a continuous scribble of scratchy autobiographical drawings. So, if for nothing else, the 621 pages gathered together for the fi rst time in The Years Have Pants - 30 years of cartoons collected and collated into a loose baggy monster of a book - deserve recognition for the stubborn, spiky dedication (verging on monomania) on display.See the full content of this document
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Drawing On Experience the Latest Graphic Novels Show Teddy Jamieson Why They Could Become Classics
More than that, though, it's also a chance to recognise how blazingly good the result of that dedication is. The first third of this book at the very least deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Art Spiegelman's Maus and David B's Epileptic as an example of just how artful the humble cartoon can be as ...
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