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...Artist," ($13.95, 128pp.) should not be confused with books like Lee & Buscema's "How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way," or Will Eisner's "Graphic Storytelling." Consider the cover: a man sits with his head in his hand, thinking. This book means to be part memoir, part essay on the nature of being a capitol-A Artist, and part history of Campbell's chosen art form...
...struggling years. Using this tether Campbell dives into and returns from extended caveats on subjects like the history of the industry during the '80s "boom-years," the difference between craft and art, and the challenges of remaining an Artist in such an historically disposable medium. Thus it bounces from essay, to history, to criticism, to autobiography in a way I haven't seen comix try before...
...instructional book, "Alec: How to be an Artist," applies to only one person: Eddie Campbell. Campbell cops to this right in the title, with that "Alec" part. Other artists will do better by taking the book's combination of memoir and essay as an example of comix' mostly untested non-fiction possibilities. The rest of us casual readers will treat the book like a smorgasbord, and take away those very nice parts that appeal most...
...Photo Essay: The Attack on Pearl Harbor
Thank you, Roger Rosenblatt, for writing about your reactions to your mother's death from Alzheimer's [ESSAY, April 30]. My mother also died of this disease two months ago. You have eloquently expressed many of my own feelings at watching my mother slowly slip away. As I walk to work past the flowering trees, enjoying the fresh smell of spring that she loved so much, I miss her. But I had been missing her for some years now. Take a breath of spring, Mr. Rosenblatt. I am, and I think our mothers are too. FELICIA ZETLER Pittsburgh...