In somewhat of a change of pace from previous installments, today’s option for comics awesome is, simply, one of the greatest autobiographical comics of all time.
Eddie Campbell’s Alec (These days available in Top Shelf’s omnibus Alec: The Years Have Pants) is one of the funniest, smartest and most honest comics that’s ever created, filled with a love of humanity and an off-kilter sensibility all of its own. As if that weren’t enough – and the prospect of thirty years of comics telling Campbell’s own life story for an even longer period doesn’t seem particularly exciting to you – then How To Be An Artist, one of the series collected within the omnibus has the added appeal of being one of the best histories of what happened to British (and, because of Alan Moore, American) comics in the 1980s that you could hope to find. Seriously, comics just don’t get any better than this.
