ALEC heads "Best of 2009" list at Comics Reporter... FAR ARDEN too!

<p>Prominent industry journalist <strong>Tom Spurgeon</strong> (<em><strong>The Comics Reporter</strong></em>) has finally presented <a href="http://ping.fm/9NBbF rel="external" target="_blank">his picks for best comics of the year</a>, with <strong>Eddie Campbell</strong>'s landmark collection <em><strong><a href="http://ping.fm/Krn4S The Years Have Pants</a></strong></em> receiving the #1 spot for archival/reprint books. Also honored as one of the year's best was <strong><em><a href="http://ping.fm/MQSeW Arden</a></em></strong>, the rip-roaring Arctic adventure by <strong>Kevin Cannon</strong>.</p>
<p>Spurgeon singles out <em><strong>Alec</strong></em> as "extraordinary" and "life-affirming," pointing out that "Campbell's work reflects not just a life as lived but mirrors the process of understanding that life." He praises <em><strong>Far Arden</strong></em>, meanwhile, not only for its formal tricks but also for "its world-building and capacity for melancholy." <a href="http://ping.fm/u73Km rel="external" target="_blank">Click here</a> to read the whole list!
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