Eddie Campbell

Narrated by the author in the future tense, it is a graphic novel about becoming an artist and making your way in the world as an artist.

How to be an Artist

Alec

Gavin

Both cryptic and mundane: take a diary written by someone with the usual amount of self-obsession but no time to explain. Alec is pretentious - the character not the book, except that the author is the character. 

I find the 70s dreary for some reason, not just the visual style and relative poverty, but something deep about information poverty and conformist anti-conformity.

Massive amount of time in pubs with no particular narrative goal. Or: the main narrative goal here is to laud aimless friendship and pubs. The other half is chasing women, ineptly. An epic in length only.

Caleb Yarian

Follows the life of the author's alter-ego, Alec MacGarry, as he spends time at the pub with his friends, gets married, immigrates to Australia with his wife, has a child, and works to establish himself as a graphic novelist.

Alec How to be an Artist

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