Teeth, Sticks, and Bricks: Calligraphy, Graphic Focalization, and Narrative Braiding in Eddie Campbell's "Alec."
This essay explores artist Eddie Campbell's "Alec: The Years Have Pants." Glasgow, Scotland native Campbell began his comics career in his early twenties after moving to England and was able to release his "Alec" series starting in the late 1970s. Alec's calligraphy is a feature of the comics that c...
| Published in: | Substance: A Review of Theory & Literary Criticism Vol. 40; no. 1; pp. 70 - 94 |
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2011
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