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Alec Longstreth

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Alec is a cartoonist who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has been self-publishing his Ignatz Award winning comic book PHASE 7 since 2002, and his Eisner-nominated webcomic Isle of Elsi since 2016. To pay the bills, Alec works as a freelance illustrator and a comics educator. ...more

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The Isle of Elsi Book Three Kickstarter is LIVE!

Isle of Elsi Book Three Kickstarter: September 30 - October 30, 2025

The Isle of Elsi Book Three Kickstarter is LIVE! The campaign runs until October 30th, 2025.

Alec Longstreth is running a Kickstarter: September 30 - October 30. Isle of Elsi Book Three - Hardback binding -Full color - 136 pages

If you would like to help me spread the word, you can grab either of these promotional images in this google drive folder. Thanks in advance for sharing this campaign with friends and family. Together we can make this book!

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Average rating: 3.83 · 2,629 ratings · 386 reviews · 24 distinct works • Similar authors

	Basewood 4.20 avg rating — 133 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dvorak Zine by Alec Longstreth (Goodreads Author), Frunch, Gabe Carleton-Barnes 4.09 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Transition: Phase 7 010 & 011 4.42 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Isle of Elsi: The Dragon's Librarian (Isle of Elsi, #1) 4.38 avg rating — 24 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Phase 7 #001 - #004 4.22 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Weezer Fan: Phase 7 #017 - #019 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Phase 7 by Alec Longstreth (Goodreads Author), Max de Radiguès (Translator) 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	B-Sides: Phase 7 #012-#016 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shorts: Phase 7 #022 & #023 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Isle of Elsi Adventures #1 (Isle of Elsie Adventures #1) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I read this book because I found out that one of my favorite animators, Ward Kimball, cited this as a book that changed his life. It's a self-help book that was written during World War II and is very dated in a number of ways. The main thrust of it ...more
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Alec Longstreth rated a book it was amazing Fresh Start by Gale Galligan (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
What a wonderful book! The cover makes it seem like just another "kid at a new school" story - it is not! There is so much unique life experience packed into this story. It is one of a kind. Beautiful cartooning, hilarious timing, great characters, l ...more
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Alec’s Quotes

“I don't wait for inspiration. I'm not, in fact, quite sure what inspiration is, but I'm sure that if it is going to turn up, my having started work is the precondition of its arrival.”
― Quentin Blake, Words and Pictures

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“Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.”
― Studs Terkel

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“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

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“...the self-published minicomic represents comics in its purest and most perfect form.”
― Roger Langridge, Jim Henson's The Musical Monsters of Turkey Hollow

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