i gave up blogging a week ago on account of I feel demoralized. But this bloke John Campbell, no relation, just made me laff. Go look, as it ends even funnier.
(link thanks to drjon)
posted by Eddie Campbell at
8:43 PM
Friday, 13 June 2008
EDDIE CAMPBELL
HIS NEXT BOOK:
ALEC: THE YEARS HAVE PANTS
He talks about it in this recent interview at Comicsreporter
and more recently at Forbidden Planet International
HIS PREVIOUS, still available:
THE AMAZING REMARKABLE MONSIEUR LEOTARD
2009 Eisner nominee, in best painted/multimeida art category
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Included in Amazon's top ten comics for 2008: This year we've put our editors' picks and our year-end bestsellers for each category on the same page together, so you can easily compare.
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JOG:"This is a splendid, sad lark of a book, filled with odd amusements and formal horseplay, all keyed toward sifting through several fundamental ponderings of life and living; it's as playful as it is melancholic, a work that deems even the most storied life a ride of dips and jumps, its lowest lows and highest highs perhaps bringing us close to the very borders of the present - history and dreams and spirits lurking just above and below us, where we cannot routinely occupy the page."
Brick Weekly:
""There is some historical fact in the book.(but) It just does not matter, because history would only get in the way of the fun love of storytelling the artist displays here."
Bookforum:
"Apparently, all of this madness can’t be contained in the four-panel grid, so Campbell fills the margins with comments, pantomime, a cameo by the authors themselves, and an ill-fated human cannonball who periodically whizzes by. Nor is a typical page-to-page sequence sufficient for the restless authors, who insert “facsimiles” of circus posters, popular prints, and excerpts from Etienne’s crudely yet charmingly illustrated diary."
City Pages.com
"A sweet, romantic comedy/fantasy might not be what you'd expect from the artist of From Hell, but Eddie Campbell has stayed in his recent experimental mode and produced (with co-writer Dan Best) a graphic novel that could almost be called delicate."
Readaboutcomcs.com
"A book like The Amazing Remarkable Monsieur Leotard would have been good had only half of the effort gone into it, but Campbell and Best have instead gone all-out and created a comic masterpiece."
Indie Pulp
"With Campbell, you get the whole package; not a page of the book gets wasted, and there's something to entertain at every glance."
Omnivoracious.com:
"Campbell's light touch with the art--beautiful yet often disturbing watercolors--proves supple and fluid enough to convey scenes of whimsy and scenes of horror. This might just be my favorite Campbell yet--I can't recommend it highly enough."
Alan David Doane at Comic Book Galaxy
"You will love rediscovering the joy of a wild adventure comic that you can't stop reading. You will love laughing at each inevitable change of fortune that makes Leotard's life so amazing, so remarkable... you will love once again letting Eddie (and Dan Best) take hold of your consciousness and imagination and turn them inside out and upside down on the wildest ride you'll find in comics this year."
The North Adams Transcript "Campbell's artwork, meanwhile, is beyond beauty ... his color work here... crosses styles and genres and employs some brilliant panel placement as well."
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"Eddie Campbell’s books are becoming, with each passing year, more stunning."
comics waiting room
"It’s a terrific piece, and a sweet return to form for Campbell ..."
Aint it cool.com: "First Second has made a name for itself by producing quality material, but this book outdoes all of its previous endeavors."
Comic Book Resources: "it's a first class tour-de-Campbell whimsy"
Comicmix: "it's a fine Eddie Campbell book, in the style that no one else could replicate, and a joy to read."
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18 Comments:
Lovely. Thank you mr. campbell.
...poor kid: i know just how he feels.
I hope you are feeling better now.
Hi Eddie, I'm glad you're back. Get it into yer' skull that you're very much appreciated ya' ninny.
You've made me smile quite a few times this week on the tube, while I've been reading 'After the snooter'. You're one of the artists that I always come back to and help with keeping my own perspective on the world, like the Cartoonist Future.
Just saying, that even now, somewhere 'round the world 'you' are affecting a response.
All my best, Derek
Yeah, don't give up on the blogging please. Like with booze, breaks are good but with destroy you if they go on for too long. By the way, got to page through The Amazing Remarkable Monsieur Leotard at Mocca this year, and it deserves more superlatives. Can't way till they let me buy it. Cheers,
- Brendan
Ed,
Great strip. Think John read your ironic one-pagers...
Thanks pal,
Wayne
God bless John Campbell
I read your PW interview. I'm really surprised publishers reject someone like you. Purely in terms of numbers, you're a success story, right? Previously published on multiple occasions, a movie made from your work, and a consistent presence in the market for the past several years. What're their reasons for rejecting you?
I just read the PW interview, too. Looking forward to read Monsieur Leotard! And wish you lots of encouragement for that Playwright book. You're a great artist!
p.s. Drop by here if you get bored. Might give you a chuckle or two.
Looking forward to when I can get my hands on the Amazing Mr Leotard (also wouldn't mind getting my hands on a copy of the book).
I hope the demoralized feeling gets demoralized and runs away!
Cheers
Matt
P.S. Eddie, Just finished reading The Black Diamond Detective Agency on the train trip home and really enjoyed it. It might not be as good as The Fate Of The Artist (will have to take your word for it until I can get my hands on a copy) but it is still a damn good book.
Wish I had gotten you to sign it when I met you in the store (and that I hadn't sounded like some brain fried idiot)
Cheers
Matt
Are there any plans to do a book tour/signing in Australia?
no plans at present.
Hi Eddie,
I hope your decision to stop blogging is only temporary. In any case, thank you; I greatly admire your work and have immensely enjoyed reading your blog.
Cheers!
Eddie, good to see you back in the ether. Looking forward to seeing you at this year's CCI/San Diego.
Damn, that Guernica in 3D that you spotted is really mind-altering! It's so wrong (Picasso created the Guernica in line, not in 3D sculpted forms!), yet looking at it really causes the mental flashbulbs to pop. Startling, cool, thanks.
Hey, you're under the spotlight again over at Thought Balloonists, thanks to Craig Fischer and me. Don't know if that will cheer you up (yow, maybe just the opposite), but reading your work sure works for me.
http://www.thoughtballoonists.com/2008/07/our-eddie-how-t.html
I read Leotard last night, courtesy of Gina at First Second, and I can't wait to write about it. :)
eddie,
i had pondered your absence a few days ago, but the walls really came crashing in when i saw this: http://nickpapageorgia.blogspot.com/2008/05/chat-plates.html
If all were right in the greater semiotoerverse it would be you, sir, who were bringing such items to my attention.
consider yourself castimigated.
hi,
I apologize for contacting you on this forum for this particular issue, but I need to ask you for permission to publish some of your images in From Hell for my dissertation.
Please write me at rogerwhitson@gmail.com, so I can have some way of contacting you.
Thanks,
Roger Whitson
Hi Eddie,
Found a copy of Fate of the Artist (at Ace comics) and read it on the way home. It's really good. Really really good.
There is one part in there, where your wife discovers the monument to chaos, and your head is peeking around the door watching, that really made me laugh (Other parts of the comic mad me laugh as well, but that bit sticks in my mind). I am going to show the comic to my wife and say, "see, I'm not that bad..."
Cheers
Matt
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