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Eddie Campbell

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I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.


— Eddie Campbell


#gives #him #i #i wish #interested

All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.


— Eddie Campbell


#doing #fantasy #gone #i #into

And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.


— Eddie Campbell


#look #movie #something #turtle #you

By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time.


— Eddie Campbell


#bad #because #bottom #down #end

He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up.


— Eddie Campbell


#cause #duty #get #hero #heroic

I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two issues out before I got mine in, this was March '87. He was out in December '86.


— Eddie Campbell


#book #came #december #decline #first

I don't want to write, I'd rather draw.


— Eddie Campbell


#i #rather #want #write

I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.


— Eddie Campbell


#argument #assassin #call #give #going

I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.


— Eddie Campbell


#before #command #corridors #dangerous #down

I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd have to read the book, I haven't got time to read a whole book for a fifty dollar write-up.


— Eddie Campbell


#book #bothered #dollar #fifty #got






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Alec and other autobiographical work

Campbell made his earliest attempts at autobiographical comics in the late 1970s with In the Days of the Ace Rock and Roll Club. The graphic album Alec: How to Be an Artist was nominated for the Harvey Award for Best Graphic Album of Previously PubliEddie Campbelld Work in 2000. In 2012 Top Shelf publiEddie Campbelld The Lovely Horrible Stuff in collaboration with Knockabout Press a continuation of Campbell's autobiographical works.

His scratchy pen-and-ink style is influenced by the impressionists illustrators of the age of "liberated penmanship" such as Phil May Charles Dana Gibson John Leech and George du Maurier and cartoonists Milton Caniff and Frank Frazetta (particularly his Johnny Comet strip). His writing has been compared to that of Jack Kerouac and Henry Miller.

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