tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post1949804546909641611..comments2024-03-27T05:22:27.604-05:00Comments on Eddie Campbell: Eddie Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02492020671613766729noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-2167384950214879742009-09-30T19:11:27.383-05:002009-09-30T19:11:27.383-05:00update. The marketing department in my head has ju...update. The marketing department in my head has just instructed me to change the post where it says 'highly regarded attempt' to say 'controversial attempt'.<br />anything that starts a fight is fine with me. But I must say I remain curious to know by how far I missed the boat. I was once on the quay at Boulogne and thought that I could jump it, except the water was churning up dangerously below me.<br />(that's in the book too, I add shamelessly)Eddie Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02492020671613766729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-416805545014127712009-09-30T16:26:12.958-05:002009-09-30T16:26:12.958-05:00arf!
It was so long ago I forgot I was skating on...arf!<br /><br />It was so long ago I forgot I was skating on thin ice. Thanks for commenting.Eddie Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02492020671613766729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-40942843322525435052009-09-30T11:58:13.126-05:002009-09-30T11:58:13.126-05:00Sorry, but your attempt to tell the story of how B...Sorry, but your attempt to tell the story of how Big Numbers went south completely missed the boat. It upset me quite a bit when it originally came out. I imagine there are many others who were actually there at the time who feel similarly.Marc Arsenaulthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10384129154427120473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-49314715955583221292009-09-30T04:48:57.302-05:002009-09-30T04:48:57.302-05:00Michael's comment reminds me that there's ...Michael's comment reminds me that there's one panel in Big Numbers #1 - one of the early ones with the lad by the side of the rail line preparing to throw his bolt at the train - that has nagged me with an insufferable sense of deja vu since I first laid eyes on it.<br /><br />I don't have a clue if it's actually taken from a photo I may have seen, or if I'm missing some artistic reference I really ought to get, or if I'm simply mistaken once again, but it's been tapping my skull since launch day and revisiting Big Numbers only encourages it.<br /><br />Posts like this don't help.Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02105114526496564116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-31088608144762440382009-09-29T23:39:11.543-05:002009-09-29T23:39:11.543-05:00And yet as the years go by, my initial admiration ...And yet as the years go by, my initial admiration for "Big Numbers" is massively diminished by how stiff and heavily photo-refrenced it is. Looking back, I don't see an unfinished work but a stillborn one. The pictorial component is so sterile as to be lacking all the life and warmth that Moore's script invokes. However good Billy the Sink was/is, he was utterly the wrong artist for such a work. If it were at all possible, the original version would be an appendix to another edition where an artist who gave us the minutiae of life in all of its quiet agonising mystery instead.Michael Evansnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-20781079007769679012009-09-29T19:05:46.130-05:002009-09-29T19:05:46.130-05:00Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad you enjoye...Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad you enjoyed the review.<br /><br />Best,<br /><br />Rob MartinR. S. Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13044341905789599207noreply@blogger.com