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Eddie Campbell

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I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.


— Eddie Campbell


#actually #changed #direction #eight #five

I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it.


— Eddie Campbell


#i #just #love #now #revolting

I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.


— Eddie Campbell


#doing #i #just #love #me

It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with it too much.


— Eddie Campbell


#business #comics #much #muck #out

It's not the last one. Five's out, six is coming out in November, that's a single chapter, and then seven is the big horrifying one. And I think a couple after that to wrap the thing up.


— Eddie Campbell


#big #chapter #coming #couple #five

There are a couple of things in there if we're constraining this discussion to horror here.


— Eddie Campbell


#couple #discussion #here #horror #things

They asked me to write it and zoomed me over there to do it. But they ended up sacking me.


— Eddie Campbell


#ended #me #over #up #write

They've got this house style which is writer driven. I heard of one person who sent his script in, and Karen Berger said there weren't enough words in it. Put some more in.


— Eddie Campbell


#enough #got #heard #his #house

We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror.


— Eddie Campbell


#care #could #enough #hang #horror

You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.


— Eddie Campbell


#crazy #filing #had #her #just






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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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