Alec: The King Canute Crowd by Eddie Campbell is one of my favourite comics of all time.
Back in the late 90s when I ran a mail order distro for predominantly self published comics I had a stock of these. I still have a couple of copies spare. You can have them on two conditions.
1) You’ve never read anything by Eddie Campbell. In fact not knowing who he is would be a bonus.
2) You’re not that interested in getting a free comic from me. I want these to go into places they wouldn’t normally go.
First two people in the comments who meet these criteria get a copy of the book. (Yes, book. It’s 144 pages long and has a spine and everything.)
1) I have never heard of Eddie Campbell before now. If forced to guess I would have said “Erm… F1 driver?”
2) The only printed comic I’ve ever read outside of Garfield and Snoopy is ‘Maus’. It’s safe to say that ‘to Russ’ is not somewhere it would normally go.
I can has broadening of horizons?
In keeping with the spirit of this I’ve not even attempted to google Eddie Campbell. I haven’t read a comic since some Batman stuff (Dark Knight ones? – can’t recall) in the late 80s/early 90s. As a young teenager I collected Peanuts books but quickly grew out of that. Since then I have defiantly walked past Nostalgia and Comics on Smallbrook Queensway in order to get to Richer Sounds and have never once been tempted to go inside. Yet I felt an immediate pull on seeing this. Given how crap I am at reading novels (about two a year max) maybe I should give comic novels a chance. So yes, why not. If, by the time I’ve finished typing this, I’m still the second commenter then go ahead – I’ll have it.
Dave
And we’re done!
Your comics will be winging their ways to you, sirs.
Who, what, where, bum I have been pipped to the post by Russ L and Dave.