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...Alec: How to be an Artist" can be found in better comicbook stores and through Eddie Campbell's American agent Top Shelf Productions. Eddie Campbell also has a personal website
...American Century" can be found at nearly all comicbook stores...
...folly or masterpiece, the French comix artist Stéphane Heuet has decided to adapt Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past." Proust's masterwork, a seven-volume, 4000-plus page French novel published between 1913 and 1922 will become twelve comicbook volumes published between 1998 and perhaps 2020. The first of these has now been translated into English (NBM Publishing, $19.95, hardcover...
...arguments for and against a comicbook adaptation of this famously interior novel feel like two sides of the same coin. Heuet has translated all the rote action and, more important, all the visual aspects of the book into pictures. In some cases this comes in handy, as when Giotto's "Virtues and Vices" are invoked, or a bunch of asparagi are referred to with extreme detail. This version of "Remembrance," has been distilled down to its essence, concentrating its themes and aesthetic ambitions. And yet, one of those themes, the ability of art, and particularly literature, to evoke all things...
...American Splendor: Portrait of the Artist" should be available at most decent comicbook stores...