tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post6909930007662507534..comments2024-03-27T05:22:27.604-05:00Comments on Eddie Campbell: Eddie Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02492020671613766729noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-2307418359611636292009-03-28T05:31:00.000-05:002009-03-28T05:31:00.000-05:0045 pages? Excellent! And just who are you calling...45 pages? Excellent! And just who are you calling 'old'?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01659371868447188237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-12625000925043740512009-03-28T03:04:00.000-05:002009-03-28T03:04:00.000-05:00Thanks, Padraig.Address filed.Thanks, Padraig.<BR/>Address filed.Eddie Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02492020671613766729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-86190023696161475092009-03-28T02:58:00.000-05:002009-03-28T02:58:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-85403793402904453732009-03-27T20:22:00.000-05:002009-03-27T20:22:00.000-05:00I was there working out the details of the schedul...I was there working out the details of the schedule and contract for a project that was in production. My collaborator and I spent the day at the offices, during which Kevin showed us the original pages for #3.<BR/><BR/>Hey, our project was never completed either (though we managed to get out a sketchbook of preparatory materials) so I guess we were in good company :-)Bill Andersonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-19808321688878189612009-03-27T19:43:00.000-05:002009-03-27T19:43:00.000-05:00Bill,by the way. Help me complete my picture of ev...Bill,<BR/>by the way. Help me complete my picture of events. what was your connection to Tundra? Were you working there, or where you in the office pitching a project?<BR/>EddieEddie Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02492020671613766729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-77061764785448186922009-03-27T19:38:00.000-05:002009-03-27T19:38:00.000-05:00Thanks, Sean. Long time no see.Best to youEddieThanks, Sean. Long time no see.<BR/>Best to you<BR/>EddieEddie Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02492020671613766729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-480870812041685872009-03-27T17:31:00.000-05:002009-03-27T17:31:00.000-05:00I remember seeing Bill having pages from Big Numbe...I remember seeing Bill having pages from Big Numbers #3 for sale in San Diego 4 or 5 years ago. Only around $200 a page but stupidly I never picked any up. Wish I had of course. None of them were duotone though, they were painted like the first two issues.<BR/>In fact those scans look more like the halftoning you used to get on faxes of greyscale images...Sean Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14922458206969216654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-80795803916562404842009-03-27T17:02:00.000-05:002009-03-27T17:02:00.000-05:00Thanks, Thomas, Bill, Derek etc..Padraig, you do g...Thanks, Thomas, Bill, Derek etc..<BR/>Padraig, you do good interviews, and I'd certainly be happy to be in line for one.<BR/>just let me know when you're ready.<BR/>I looked for an email add. at your assorted venues but can't see one.<BR/>EddieEddie Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02492020671613766729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-78584934467163867612009-03-27T16:50:00.000-05:002009-03-27T16:50:00.000-05:00In Kevin's defense, I have to say that the multi-g...In Kevin's defense, I have to say that the multi-generation photocopies don't accurately represent the startlingly abrupt transition between the wash pages and the duoshade pages. The copies are so corrupted that a casual peruser might not notice a difference.<BR/><BR/>Cages was an integration of disparate styles, Big Numbers was an unannounced transition from a more work-intensive style to a less work-intensive one. And while I think the duoshade pages are well-done, I can certainly sympathize with the viewpoint that it undercuts the project as a whole, and interferes with the whole "color slowly seeping in, until the finale is full color" aspect.<BR/><BR/>Consider me in line to buy the Campbell-illustrated version, by the way. Maybe it would help to convince Mr. Moore if you reminded him that you do have a successful track record with his "period pieces".Bill Andersonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-38879088547083954602009-03-27T16:48:00.000-05:002009-03-27T16:48:00.000-05:00Thanks very much for the kind words, Eddie. (And t...Thanks very much for the kind words, Eddie. (And that goes for Jody as well!) I really still can't believe that I managed to find this, and *really* can't believe I was the only bidder for it on eBay. I fully expected it to end up in a private collection, never to be seen again. I've been putting up some of the odd bits and pieces of Moore stuff I have for a while, so I was really glad to get this, and be able to share it, once I checked it with Alan.<BR/><BR/>And while I have you: I've been doing a series of interviews on the Forbidden Planet blog [ http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?cat=30 ] and I was hoping I could do onew with you at some stage?<BR/><BR/>I'm linking this to my Slovobooks LiveJournal, but I'm also Glycon, where the pages appeared...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-78311249317210152432009-03-27T16:22:00.000-05:002009-03-27T16:22:00.000-05:00Another thing I remembered, and I don't think I ev...<I> Another thing I remembered, and I don't think I ever mentioned it to Alan, but I always felt a certain resentment that Billy the Sink got Big Numbers and blew it while i was stuck drawing Jack the bloody Ripper for ten years (I once described it as a penny dreadful that costs thirty five bucks). </I><BR/><BR/>With all due respect and my apologies, Mr. Campbell, but...<BR/><BR/>.. are you mad? FROM HELL is one of the very few graphic stories that deserve the name NOVEL in it, and it's the one book that I recommend to people who have heard about that "whole comics thing" and want to try reading something. As a work of art, I'd rank it higher and much more accessible than WATCHMEN, because it doesn't require even a most fleeting knowledge of "costumed hero mythology". And your artwork is indeed half of its artistic merit, since it is more in line with older illustration work. People can immediately understand it, follow it, even if they have never read something in graphic format before.<BR/><BR/>And while I am sad that BIG NUMBERS was never finished (poke Alan! poke him!), I am immensely glad that you and him made FROM HELL into something that just isn't a penny dreadful (the movie was, though) but a fully formed novel that is one of the few books I re-read and find new things in, both in art and writing, every time I do.<BR/><BR/>Thank you for that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-51450072819671690922009-03-27T15:52:00.000-05:002009-03-27T15:52:00.000-05:00I had seen a few pages from an issue of The Comics...I had seen a few pages from an issue of The Comics Journal back in 1998 or 1999. That was a cruel tease and the line going then was the same as what was previously posted- why bother publishing no. 3 if there wasn't any more to come. I agree that it was a horrible decision, surely there's demand for it and here we are looking at the bootleg anyway. From what I had heard, most or all of the series was written already, leaving whatever period touches that reside in the script already complete. The only person that would have to "go back" would be the artist tackling it. I haven't seen anything from #4. Surely it survives in some form?! Thanks for posting the images!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-56978453458555969942009-03-27T14:53:00.000-05:002009-03-27T14:53:00.000-05:00Bill, thanks for the insight.I can imagine how Kev...Bill, thanks for the insight.<BR/><BR/>I can imagine how Kevin would have thought that way, with his leanings toward the slick Heavy Metal thing. <BR/><BR/>I think it's quite beautiful how Bill was taking the style away from the photo-real where it started to a more spontaneous, cartoony mode. Dave Mckean was wrestling with the same problems in Cages and coming up with completely different solutions.<BR/><BR/>Last time I talked to Alan about Big Numbers, he saw it as a thing of its time and had no interest in reviving it. I was thinking that while reading it, how it's become a picture of England in a specific year. An attempt to finish it would have have to treat it as a period pieceEddie Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02492020671613766729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-89762078059627445292009-03-27T14:28:00.000-05:002009-03-27T14:28:00.000-05:00Theo,Hi, old friend.There are 45 pages of never be...Theo,<BR/>Hi, old friend.<BR/>There are 45 pages of never before printed material in the omnibus.<BR/>EddieEddie Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02492020671613766729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-33776140433745877012009-03-27T14:27:00.000-05:002009-03-27T14:27:00.000-05:00'Though by the time you asked him about it the rea...'Though by the time you asked him about it the reason for not publishing #3 has become (the more diplomatic) that it doesn't make sense to publish #3 without a #4 through #12, you actually mention the real (or at least original) reason for not publishing: The radical style change in the midst of #3.<BR/><BR/>I was in the offices within a few days of the arrival of the duotone pages, and Kevin showed them to me. I don't have a recording of what was said, and I didn't take notes, so let me just say that my impression of his reaction was 'Can you fucking believe this? There's no way we're publishing this.'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-21734612344718476922009-03-27T08:32:00.000-05:002009-03-27T08:32:00.000-05:00Yes, the Gathercole pages encapsulates just how br...Yes, the Gathercole pages encapsulates just how brilliant both Alan is as a writer, and Bill is as an artist. It really breaks my heart that this project was never finished. <BR/><BR/>Still, I'm glad we're given the opportunity to read #3 in its entirety at last.Gerry Alanguilanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10399726306246790191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-85716282321136633042009-03-27T07:06:00.000-05:002009-03-27T07:06:00.000-05:00Two new pages in The Alec Omnibus? Do you have any...Two new pages in <I>The Alec Omnibus</I>? Do you have any idea how many copies I now have of the early Alec strips? And now I will get another set. What a good job that I so enjoy them.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01659371868447188237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-30894065320376889502009-03-27T05:30:00.000-05:002009-03-27T05:30:00.000-05:00For some reason issue 3 seems to have a Bojeffries...For some reason issue 3 seems to have a Bojeffries feel I didn't get from the first two, way back when. Always nice to see our beloved Bradlaugh statue in the arts, caught there on one of the rare occasions when it's content to stand still on its plinth and not go wandering around the town pointing at curiosities.<BR/><BR/>Now I'm speculating on what would have happened if you and Sienkiewicz had swapped books. A Campbellised Big Numbers I can visualise, but a sunken From Hell refuses to take form, despite the two projects' griddish similarities. Gull Catchers I could see working, I suppose.Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02105114526496564116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-41906886867665415452009-03-27T04:16:00.000-05:002009-03-27T04:16:00.000-05:00This is seriously cool.I think I'll reread 1 &...This is seriously cool.<BR/>I think I'll reread 1 & 2 prior to checking out 3 though.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16995073979326323377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-88408226613377260282009-03-27T02:32:00.000-05:002009-03-27T02:32:00.000-05:00Jody, please tell your friend that I love him more...Jody, please tell your friend that I love him more than I can say.<BR/><BR/>PamN.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-22905768438884368422009-03-27T00:54:00.000-05:002009-03-27T00:54:00.000-05:00would you be interested at all in taking a crack a...would you be interested at all in taking a crack at it now? :) seems a shame that it never reached fruition, so many people left hanging, moore included. wasn't the whole thing plotted out already on a mandelbrot set grid or something?ramonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02837004014449004542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-70701499782472038522009-03-26T23:59:00.000-05:002009-03-26T23:59:00.000-05:00The scanning and posting is the work of an Irish f...The scanning and posting is the work of an Irish friend of mine, Pádraig Ó Méalóid, who is a scholar and a gentleman and a lucky bugger to have found it as well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com